Bad spelling the cat's meow for this job
Associated Press
Sunday, May 11, 2008
"I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm" That's the subject line of a cover letter sent by a job applicant to I Can Has Cheezburger, one of the premier sites for so-called Lolcat pictures.
Don't think the letter will be rejected out of hand - bad spelling is no obstacle to a job in Lolcat world. It may even be an asset.
Lolcats became an Internet craze last year. A typical example shows a picture of a fat and hopeful cat accompanied by a caption in a baby-talk-like dialect known as Lolspeak: "I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?"
Apparently, looking at Lolcats all day is an appealing job. Ben Huh, founder of the site and chief executive of Seattle-based Pet Holdings Inc., received 250 applications after the job was posted under the headline "Kittehs Want Moar Workerhumans."
"I got a stack of resumes that I can't even go through," Huh said. "You know how they say, 'Spell everything correctly because the people reading your resume will toss it out otherwise?' Well, we can't even do that. We won't knock you out for spelling. . . . "
The winning applicant will join three other people who moderate ICHC and a few related Pet Holdings sites (think dogs with funny captions). A big part of the job will be selecting from the 7,000 submissions the company receives every day of captioned photos, plus 2,000 uncaptioned ones.
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May 12, 2008
10:05 a.m.
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Ztliano writes:
What?
May 12, 2008
12:07 p.m.
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SLAP writes:
Huh?
May 12, 2008
12:16 p.m.
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ghostie writes:
Yeeah...checked out the website, very very strange.
May 12, 2008
12:24 p.m.
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Seabreezes writes:
This isn't news. I saw this on CNN like, 3-4 months ago. And that's ALL we need. Teach kids that spelling and grammar aren't important, as long as somebody laughs.
May 12, 2008
12:53 p.m.
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JustMe writes:
It's humorous - and FYI it's not a teaching tool for kids. You don't get it? Then don't visit it. It's actually quite a humorous site once you understand lolspeak and what Lolcats and loldogs are.
May 12, 2008
1:08 p.m.
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DahmersCookbook writes:
JustMe,
I'm sorry our god can be A cruel one... do something crazy, go outside.
May 12, 2008
1:21 p.m.
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Bagel writes:
Says the person posting on a website.