Comments on: Georgetown sophomore seeks personal assistant, takes premature self-importance to whole new level

By: gaganVIRK

gaganVIRK — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:42:16 +0000

PERSONAL ASSISTANCE, LIFE HELP,
When you think of personal assistants, you like most other people automatically think of

rich executives with their personal assistants that follow them around taking care of all

of the small details for them.

By: Jabong Coupons

Jabong Coupons — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:22:36 +0000

Having a P.A. is not wrong .. I know a lots of people with P.A. in college and even in High School.

By: Vox Populi » Need a job? Be Jack DeGioia’s personal assistant

Vox Populi » Need a job? Be Jack DeGioia’s personal assistant — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:01:07 +0000

[...] to jump to mind is Charlie Cooper, the then-sophomore who in fall 2009 became the man behind the Student Employment Office posting heard ’round the [...]

By: währungsrechner

währungsrechner — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:09:00 +0000

Ich stimme mit dem Titel dieses Artikels ist dies “unter sich selbst Wert auf eine neue Ebene”.

By: And when you’re done, fetch my pipe and slippers | The Deacon's Bench

And when you’re done, fetch my pipe and slippers | The Deacon's Bench — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:45:15 +0000

[...] 19-year-olds the way they used to. This sophomore was looking for a personal assistant. Really.The posting:I am a Georgetown undergrad student and part time employee in the financial services industry. I am [...]

By: Attorney

Attorney — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:31:53 +0000

I think the key is this statement, “part time employee in the financial services industry.” the financial industry seems to think it’s better than the rest of us in every way possible, and more deserving to have the rest of us be servants to it/them. This guy is just showing his true colors.

By: Royal

Royal — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:16:48 +0000

As to me, i agree with Laura’s comment. This guy first of all is quite a brave one – he is searching for work, to earn money in a spare time. At least he is not searching for the help of his parents, as many of students are doing. That, at least, makes him a respect from my point of view. The other thing – by working as a personal assistant need a lot of attention, and supposed to be a long-term work. Anyway good luck to him, i wish him the best :-)

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:40:15 +0000

Thanks Juan, but I am sorry, I still can’t see the problem.

I think some people haven’t read carefully the job posting, that simple. I really do not understand the same as you when I read the job posting, It doesn’t seem pretentious or narrow-minded to me.

But the most important thing for me is that I do not think this person should be judged before talking to him and before giving him the opportunity to explain the meaning of the job description just because I see there are a lot of misunderstandings in here.

And of course, I just cannot understand some people comments, like \I hope Mr. Cooper gets hit by a bus\ \I trained this kid at Morgan Stanley, and we made fun of him every day! This kid is a loser!\ \What an idiot\ you can read all kind of insults, and so on… I do not really understand how much hate fits in the hearts of some people… It is a shame.

Thanks anyway.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:40:15 +0000

Ana & Laura, what is bothering people here, is not that someone is willing to offer work to somebody else. It is more the fact that when you’re a student, you don’t really need a chauffeur & somebody making your bed. Plus, wanting another younger fellow student to take care of those tasks is quite degrading.

I really agree with the title of this article, this is “taking self importance to a new level”. If you need a maid, fine, and there’s no reason to justify yourself: you can be either busy, rich or just lazy, nobody cares. Just don’t offer this to a fellow student on your universitys page calling it a “PA” job, because it isn’t really. In the end, the conditions he gives are quite unfaire… from what I see, there’s more than 1 hour/day involved, (and YES, if the “PA” would be driving to go get his “master” at work, it would count as work hours, even if his boss is not literally sitting in the car).

This guy seems to be quite pretentious and narrow-minded, without any sense of judgement. It’s the way of proceeding that bothers me. It’s a lack of sensitivity.

There you go, another comment from a reader from Spain!

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:31:31 +0000

I am other Spanish woman, and I have also read the news in the same newspaper. I have to say that I am frightened and stunned for the things that most of you say about this person, the way you write and the awful things I have read… I cannot see which is the problem!.

The only thing I can think about is that in your country you have no problems for finding a job, because if you read the comments that Spanish people make about this issue you would see they are totally opposite to yours. A lot of people would like that job, just because they would have a job. No matter if the job is stupid or not. This person is giving a chance to someone to get some money for doing a job as decent as many other jobs. You are nobody to say if this person needs a PA or not, it is absolutely justifiable to have a PA even if you are a student. Honestly I think that if this person studies and woks, he will probably need some help and is willing to pay someone for helping, what is up?

The other idea that comes to my mind is that some of you feel really envious of this person because they cannot afford to have a personal assistant. Sorry guys, but I thought you were more understanding and polite people.

To finish I totally agree with ana.