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November 25, 2009, Wednesday
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FIVE new restroom ambassadors will soon be tweeting from toilets at New York's Times Square after beating hundreds of hopefuls for the coveted jobs.
They won a contest that included aspiring actors, students and even a businessman hoping to seed his enterprise for the jobs to greet and chat with tourists and hoards of holiday shoppers visiting the Manhattan restrooms.
Each winner will collect US$10,000 for six weeks of work.
In addition to welcoming the guests, the ambassadors will comment and blog about their experience on social networking Websites Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
"We're going to connect the world with the Times Square Charmin bathrooms," said Cody Melton, 31, a comedian and one of the new ambassadors.
Although they aren't sure what to expect when the guests visit the restrooms set up each year by toilet paper maker Charmin, the ambassadors believe visitors will be grateful for the experience in a city notorious for its dearth of public toilets.
"There's nothing worse than being in New York and having to go," said Annie Paulson, a 31-year old cellist who landed a job.
"I often find myself buying cups of coffee that I don't want in order to feel justified to use a restroom in a coffee shop," she said.
Other winners announced at the opening ceremony of the toilets include a 32-year-old children's theater teacher, a 32-year-old former office administrator and an unemployed 68-year-old woman.
This is the fourth year Charmin has set up the approximately 20 restrooms, which will also have iPods and televisions within reach of their porcelain seats. The company said it wanted to enhance the experience so they added the ambassador jobs.
They won a contest that included aspiring actors, students and even a businessman hoping to seed his enterprise for the jobs to greet and chat with tourists and hoards of holiday shoppers visiting the Manhattan restrooms.
Each winner will collect US$10,000 for six weeks of work.
In addition to welcoming the guests, the ambassadors will comment and blog about their experience on social networking Websites Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
"We're going to connect the world with the Times Square Charmin bathrooms," said Cody Melton, 31, a comedian and one of the new ambassadors.
Although they aren't sure what to expect when the guests visit the restrooms set up each year by toilet paper maker Charmin, the ambassadors believe visitors will be grateful for the experience in a city notorious for its dearth of public toilets.
"There's nothing worse than being in New York and having to go," said Annie Paulson, a 31-year old cellist who landed a job.
"I often find myself buying cups of coffee that I don't want in order to feel justified to use a restroom in a coffee shop," she said.
Other winners announced at the opening ceremony of the toilets include a 32-year-old children's theater teacher, a 32-year-old former office administrator and an unemployed 68-year-old woman.
This is the fourth year Charmin has set up the approximately 20 restrooms, which will also have iPods and televisions within reach of their porcelain seats. The company said it wanted to enhance the experience so they added the ambassador jobs.
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