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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are hiring a seasonal, on-call \u201cbeach water person\u201d based in Kauai, Hawaii, where the family owns a sprawling compound, according to a new job listing on Greenhouse associated with West 10, the Zuckerberg family office.<\/p>\n
This is an interesting choice for a job title, because according to the job description, the primary duties of this \u201cbeach water person\u201d include serving as a \u201cbeach lifeguard\u201d and \u201cpool lifeguard.\u201d In other words, being a lifeguard.<\/p>\n
The job listing also mentions serving as a \u201cboat deckhand\u201d and names a few additional duties, such as instructing \u201cstand-up paddleboarding (SUP), canoe paddling, snorkeling, and other ocean-based activities.\u201d These, however, come after the water safety responsibilities in the job description.<\/p>\n
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| Got a tip? Are you a current or former employee of the Zuckerberg-Chan family? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at carolinehaskins.61.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n This position easily could have been called \u201cpool\/beach lifeguard\u201d or simply \u201clifeguard.\u201d For the sake of comprehensiveness, \u201cpool\/beach lifeguard and boat deckhand\u201d would have also worked. Alternatively, the Zuckerbergs could have chosen \u201cbeach\/pool attendant,\u201d a job title roughly synonymous with lifeguard that could reasonably be interpreted as encompassing extra duties associated with leisure, such as tending to a boat or teaching people how to paddleboard.<\/p>\n Arguably, any of these options would have provided more clarity than \u201cbeach water person,\u201d which does not appear to correspond with a job title anywhere else in the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n WIRED did not immediately hear back from representatives of the Zuckerberg family. Lacking a human to speak with, we decided to ask Meta\u2019s AI chatbot, \u201cWhat is a \u2018beach water person\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n "Beach water person\u2019 would just mean someone who loves being in\/near the ocean,\u201d the chatbot said. \u201cThe word for that is thalassophile\u2014\u2018a person who loves the seas and oceans.\u2019\u201d OK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this story Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are hiring a seasonal, on-call \u201cbeach water person\u201d based in Kauai, Hawaii, where the family owns a sprawling compound, according to a new job listing on Greenhouse associated with West 10, the Zuckerberg family office. This is an interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |