Our mail bag positively bulging...

We have picked a few comments that have flooded in and promise that we have in no way doctored these..

Dear X Lady M and Cohorts

Whilst I applaud your efforts to create a post for BDFLFL, I must confess to some minor points of trepidation that stay my hand whilst considering my application.
I would be very fearful that my true identity be known, as I work in Leeds and am relatively well known. It may well prove counter productive to publish my true intentions for Leeds whilst in the employ of the city. How secure is this website?

I would prefer it if you could publish my CV with no reference to my real name, is that possible?

Yours....
Etc etc


To whom it may concern

I am potentially interested in submitting my application but before I do could you help me with the following questions, I don't think they were mentioned in the advertisement.

What are the hours?
What rates of overtime are there?
Is there a canteen?
Is there a travel allowance?
What about expenses, and entertaining?
Benefits, such as a final salary scheme?
What is your sick pay policy?
Would I have my own office?
What about a PA?

I really do think it would be helpful to those considering the post if you could supply a little more detail. Your request for a full Seven Day report is by no means a small task, and it would be helpful to understand the benefits associated with the position


Yours
Mr J Obsworth
P.S I am not in work tomorrow but please feel free to reply anytime between 9-4.30 Tues- Friday on jobsworth@work-but-only-here-in-body.co.uk

We will endeavour to put all your minds at rest so keep the questions coming in and we will compile a FAQ shortly.

The Personnel Department
St Ives Town Hall
The Armley Tourist Boad

Vacant Position for Benevolent Dictator for Life for Leeds

Recruitment Advertising

We the Tourist Board of Armley have come into a rather large sum of money from a philanthropic source which is paying for this job advert to seek candidates for the post of

Benevolent Dicatator of Leeds for Life (Now referred to as BDFLFL)

Salary Expectations:
The sky is the limit, you get voted in once and then you can name your own terms

History and Background:
Leeds is a prosperous City with Blah Blah inhabitants, we are well served by a cracking transport system which never gets congested and takes all our extremely well paid professionals back to Wetherby, York and Harrogate. Which is exactly as we would like it, as we prefer the students to have the run of the town in the evening. We have fabulous, absolutely fabulous shops and clubs, which the young and beautiful flock to from across the nation. As for Art, Culture and Architecture we proudly turned down silly icon by Anthony Gormley and quite right too! (we edited out the bit about our Football club)

Now Leeds is poised to capitalise further upon it's good fortune, and in response to research conducted after the recent elections, have decided that what we need next is one person who we can entrust the future prosperity to. This will save on election costs, will give our elected councillors the chance to have a small rest, help the paid officials get on with the real work of making Leeds the NUMBER ONE Destination outside of London, Manchester and Barnsley

So if you think that you could bring real stability, more shoppers, more vibrancy to our wonderfully smug city then please post your CV to this blog with a little about what you would do to help keep Leeds at the top of the pops for ever! To make it fair we suggest that you keep your real identity to yourself whilst doing this, as we would like to choose the best position based on the quality of your post rather than the fact you may work for Marketing Leeds or such like!

The criteria:

The winning candidate will demonstrate through inventiveness, wit and passion, why they love Leeds enough to show it the back of their hand from time to time. Leeds has not had a good stinging slap for awhile and in our opinion can probably bear it manfully.
Other than demonstrating a capacity for tough love, we recommend you take the theme of our dear father
"What I would do in seven days "

The selection process

Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that you will win just by you putting money our way, we suggest that you rally your troops to support you, either in the form of comments in the box, or when it comes to the people making their choice asking people to vote for you.

Over time we will add links to a website called Flickr.com where you can post images of the buildings you may wish to destroy during your campaign

We will give you authorship to post your CV, and for the nerdy amongst you you can post links down the side of the page if you feel they will help support your application.

So without further ado, let's get cracking email jamsiren@thearmleytouristboard.com