SMITH Wants Your Boss, in Brief [1]
Last month, we reported on SMITH magazine's six-word memoir contest Six Words About Work [3], which launched with the theme My Job (or, "Why I do what I do").
For the next eight days, the magazine is accepting entries on a new topic: bosses—and not just any bosses, but the best bosses ever [4].
Like inaugural contest winner Mindy Getch, whose My Job memoir, "Who doesn't love the payroll lady," rose above more than four thousand entries, the winner of the boss-themed contest will receive as a prize her choice of an iPad2 or a BlackBerry PlayBook. The prizes are cosponsored by the consulting firm Mercer.
Today's featured memoir comes from Elisa Shevitz: "The CEO knew every intern's name." Other entries, which appear on the SMITH website [4], include, "Peter Pan complex, together we regress," "Said, 'If he goes, I go,'" and "Verbal pugilist, he's still my dad."
On August 13 the contest will refresh with a new theme. Until then, boss-related entries can be published (with no fee) directly to the contest page.