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TGI-Frickin-F!
It is once again, Friday. Yessss (said in my very best Napolean Dynamite voice). It is time for a Frickin Friday post. This post is dedicated to Troy Pattee, possibly the funniest person I have never met.
First of all, what is an eMeet? Well, for those of you in the real world, it is when you meet someone over the internet. You know, kind of like on, “You’ve Got Mail.” Only, the scary thing is, sometimes you end up talking to someone like this. 
Anyway, because I like to blog, participate in Twitter GNO (a girls’ night out, where none of the ladies actually go anywhere. We sit at home on the internet and tweet. Kind of funny, really), AND I work for an internet marketing firm- I have more eMeets than real meets. Today, I had the best frickin eMeet, ever.
The company I work for, SEO.com, is hiring. I know! Pretty crazy with the recession and all, but when you work for a company as cool as SEO.com, it happens. But that is not the part of the story I want to focus on.
One of my eFriends, Jyl, a frickin awesome mommy blogger, recommended her husband for a position at SEO.com. She introduced us via email. I sent a quick email back, “Great. So nice to meet you, blah, blah, blah,” and I wrote a little about the position.
This is what I received in return:
Well it’s awesome to finally eMeet you Lori! Jyl has been talking about you non-stop for the past couple of weeks…well alright, she did stop while we watched a movie last weekend, but other than that it’s been pretty much constant. I’ll plan on starting Monday if that’s okay with you. I usually like to roll in around 9:30 (that way I miss most of the traffic). Do you know if my email will be set up that first day? I can’t tell you how excited I am to have such a short email address! My last one was SO LONG, it was almost embarrassing to give it to people. I had to have extra-wide business cards just to fit the whole address on one line.
Also, in your message you said something about lead generation. Should I just generate them randomly or do you have a preferred system you like to use? Either way, I’m cool. Lastly, you mentioned I would be working with mediums, and this is where I’ll have to put my foot down for religious reasons. I’ll work with circus clowns, gypsies, one-eyed hypnotists, and even network marketers, but I absolutely REFUSE to work with mediums. My brother is currently dating a psychic, and she says it’s going to end very badly.
Well that’s it on my end. I guess I’ll see you on Monday!
Troy
Future SEO Employee of the Month
My reaction- This guy is the bomb. I receive a lot of resumes and very rarely do I remember the names of the applicants. I am pretty sure I will always remember Troy.
Nice to frickin eMeet you, Troy!
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Oh my, that’s the funniest thing! If I had any idea what your company did, I’d be sure to explain exactly how such a humorous person would fit right in. As it is, I say hire the guy and start enjoying your new hysterical workplace.
Dude I’m one up on you. I’ve REAL met said Troy. And via facebook, twitter, GNO etc… he really is THAT funny. And memorable. And I highly recommend him. The end. SEE-OH.
I’m quite appalled at the behavior of this so-called applicant. So appalled that I can see why you’re interested. If advertising is about standing out in a crowded marketplace, especially an Internet one, then this guy knows what he’s doing.
Thanks for the comments, everyone!
Troy is seriously hilarious. I eHeart that guy. We may just have to create a position at SEO.com to have him around.
Troy has the BigBags stamp of approval.
Go get ‘em boy! You’re a winner winner chicken dinner…