Agency posts profitable workplace cat-sitting job

If you happen to can keep common feeding, grooming and taking part in with a cat, you is perhaps in with an opportunity for this job.

Different necessities are to play it classical music each Friday, and make a month-to-month go to to a luxurious division retailer to purchase new toys.

However this isn’t a cat-sitting advert for an eccentric personal particular person. It is a job advert to take care of an organization’s workplace cat known as Jerry.

The pay for the position has raised eyebrows, with the speed marketed at between £65 and £100 an hour, relying on expertise.

The agency says it’s on the lookout for one or two candidates to decide to a complete of 40 hours per week, though the precise hours labored are anticipated to be a lot decrease – between 8 to 12 hours every week for somebody working part-time.

Duties embrace offering contemporary milk and meals, “light each day grooming” and making a “respectful surroundings appropriate for a delicate animal”.

The corporate promoting the job runs an aviation market based mostly in central London.

Jerry the British Shorthair belongs to its boss Viktor Martynov, who began bringing him in as he was spending a lot time within the workplace and on enterprise journeys.

“I feel for cats it isn’t excellent,” he advised World Enterprise Report.

He stated bringing Jerry into the workplace additionally improved employees morale.

“Everyone desires to pet him and he additionally cheers up my colleagues, they’ve extra motivation to return to the workplace proper now,” Mr Martynov stated.

The gross sales crew even has a morning custom of touching the cat at the beginning of the day for good luck.

And Mr Martynov says Jerry as soon as even helped get a deal on a enterprise jet over the road.

In the course of tense negotiations, Jerry jumped on to the consumer’s lap.

“It turned out that he is a cat lover and his temper instantly modified.

“So you may say that Jerry additionally helped us with our work.”

The corporate, Aviamarket, says it has already had greater than 250 functions for the position.

The advert asks for earlier expertise taking care of animals and “wonderful time administration”.

It isn’t the one weird job advert to have cropped up on a jobs itemizing web site.

In 2023 Blackpool Zoo requested for candidates to change into official seagull scarers, which concerned dressing up as birds.

Over time, many food and drinks corporations have marketed for “skilled tasters” for issues like beer and chocolate.

And final 12 months, the Tasmanian vacationer board posted “adverts” for jobs together with wallaby walker and paranormal investigator, in a bid to encourage extra tourism to the island throughout the low season.