Aussie dream job creates a panic
Saturday, February 14, 2009
EMBASSIES, government offices and newspapers were spammed with complaints after a tidal wave of job applications crashed the Tourism Queensland computer server yesterday.
Hopeful applicants for "the best job in the world" -- a $150,000, six-month caretaker's job on Hamilton Island, launched as a viral marketing campaign to promote the Whitsundays -- panicked that they could not post their video applications on the crashed site.
"My name is Andr (CORRECT) Tramontin, and I'm a 21 years old boy who lives in Brazil," one emailed The Australian yesterday. "I couldn't find any link where I could apply for this job, and I also called to the Australian embassy in Brazilia, and they weren't able to tell me something about it."
Briton Neil Patrick pleaded: "Please help ... I'm stuck in England in the cold and I saw the advert for caretaker at the Great Barrier Reef.
"I can swim, use a computer, no wifey or children commitments, so I'm perfect but I can't find where to apply."
A spokesman for Queensland Tourism Minister Desley Boyle yesterday said a second server had to be set up after thousands of people tried to post applications simultaneously, crashing the site.
"It's insane, but it's drumming up interest and people are talking."
Full news at theAustralia
Hopeful applicants for "the best job in the world" -- a $150,000, six-month caretaker's job on Hamilton Island, launched as a viral marketing campaign to promote the Whitsundays -- panicked that they could not post their video applications on the crashed site.
"My name is Andr (CORRECT) Tramontin, and I'm a 21 years old boy who lives in Brazil," one emailed The Australian yesterday. "I couldn't find any link where I could apply for this job, and I also called to the Australian embassy in Brazilia, and they weren't able to tell me something about it."
Briton Neil Patrick pleaded: "Please help ... I'm stuck in England in the cold and I saw the advert for caretaker at the Great Barrier Reef.
"I can swim, use a computer, no wifey or children commitments, so I'm perfect but I can't find where to apply."
A spokesman for Queensland Tourism Minister Desley Boyle yesterday said a second server had to be set up after thousands of people tried to post applications simultaneously, crashing the site.
"It's insane, but it's drumming up interest and people are talking."
Full news at theAustralia
