The Zuckerbergs Are Hiring a Lifeguard but Calling It a 'Beach Water Person'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his woman Priscilla Chan are hiring a seasonal, on-call “Beach Water Person” based successful Kauai, Hawaii, wherever the household owns a sprawling compound, according to a caller occupation listing connected Greenhouse associated with West 10, the Zuckerberg household office.

This is an absorbing prime for a occupation title, due to the fact that according to the occupation description, the superior duties of this “Beach Water Person” see serving arsenic a “Beach Lifeguard,” and “Pool Lifeguard.” In different words, being a lifeguard.

The occupation listing names a fewer further duties related to h2o activities, specified arsenic instructing “stand-up paddleboarding (SUP), canoe paddling, snorkeling, and different ocean-based activities.” These, however, travel aft the h2o information duties successful the occupation description.

This presumption easy could person been called “Pool/Beach Lifeguard,” oregon simply “Lifeguard.” For the involvement of comprehensiveness, “Pool/Beach Lifeguard and Boat Deckhand” would person besides worked. Alternatively, the Zuckerbergs could person chosen “Beach/Pool Attendant,” a occupation rubric astir synonymous with lifeguard that could reasonably beryllium interpreted arsenic encompassing other duties associated with leisure, specified arsenic tending to a vessel oregon teaching radical however to stand-up paddleboard.

Arguably, immoderate of these options would person provided much clarity than “Beach Water Person,” which does not look to correspond with a occupation rubric anyplace other successful the English-speaking world.

WIRED did not instantly perceive backmost from representatives of the Zuckerberg family. Lacking a quality to talk with, we decided to inquire Meta’s AI chatbot “what is simply a ‘beach h2o person’?”

“‘Beach h2o person’ would conscionable mean idiosyncratic who loves being in/near the ocean,” the chatbot said. “The connection for that is thalassophile—'a idiosyncratic who loves the seas and oceans.'” Ok!