Best job ever: €500 for lying on your own couch in your boxers

It sounds too good to be true: spending a day on the couch, watching TV, and earn €500 while doing it. But this is exactly the job that Dutch underwear brand Pockies is offering. “We want to test the limits of Couch Culture,” Pockies founder Michiel Dicker says.

Not motivated and certainly no team player
The job offer, that appeared on the brand’s website, asks for an applicant who “takes no initiative,’ ‘is not a teamplayer’ and ‘is not motivated.’ What abilities does he or she need to have? You have to be able to spend a day on your couch in one of the company’s boxer shorts. “For us, it is interesting to see what our British friends think of Pockies,” says Dicker. “Besides that, we need the applicant to be very lazy. That will generate the best results.” To apply for the job you have to leave a short motivation why you’re not motivated.

Questionnaire
The lucky person who gets the job has to fill in a questionnaire at the end of the tiresome day. “This way we get first-hand information on potential ways to improve our product,” Dicker says. Other than that there’s not much to it. “Just relax, check out your favorite show and keep breathing,” is the advice of Dicker. If you think you got what it takes you can apply until the 25th of november. The one who gets the job will be announced on december 1st.

About Pockies
Pockies started in 2015 as a joke between three students. One of the founders (Michiel Dicker) was lying on the couch in ‘regular’ boxer shorts. Nowhere to put his phone he thought out loud: “Why don’t boxer shorts have pockets?” The other two owners (Karel Bosman and Rob ten Hoove) thought it was a good idea and a business was born. Since the invention of boxer shorts with pockets, the company has extended its line of products with pyjama pants, djellaba’s, hoodies and socks.