CHICAGO — Locally-based Cards Against Humanity is seeking a new CEO. And the game company has some specific requirements.
According to a full page "help wanted" ad in the Tribune, the ideal candidate for the company's next CEO would have:
• Minimum eight years experience as President of the United States "or equivalent nation"
• "Strongly prefer the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review"
• Must hold national approval rating of 57.2 percent or higher
• Passed comprehensive healthcare reform
• Steady disposition, remains cool under pressure
• Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
And the benefits?
The new CEO will get 51 percent of the company and also be able to set his own salary.
Plus, "a new computer" and access to the office pantry where the free almonds are kept. "Also, you can be our new dad if you want," the ad says.
To apply go to cardsagainsthumanity.com/CEO
The game company, headquartered at 1917 N. Elston Ave., was developed by a group of Highland Park High School alumni and is described on the company's website as "a party game for horrible people" and "as despicable and awkward as you and your friends."
Basically, there are question cards and answer cards and the players match the two in often funny (and usually off-color) ways. Example: One player's question card might ask: "Next time on Dr. Phil: How to talk to your children about..." and another player will select the answer card "an icepick lobotomy."
Inc. magazine estimated in 2013 that there have been some $12 million worth of cards sold.
In September, a political action committee funded by the company erected a billboard near I-90 and I-294 taunting then-GOP candidate Donald Trump claiming Trump doesn't pay taxes.
The PAC was dubbed The Nuisance Committee and refers to a club created by company co-founder Max Temkin's grandfather. The club was created by the grandfather after he was shot down during World War II and held in a German prison camp.
“We feel a responsibility to do whatever we can to make people aware of the darkness that Donald Trump represents and to support Hillary Clinton, who we really like,” Temkin told the Sun-Times' Shia Kapos in October.
