Holiday Parties Are Key to Professional Success

If you feel this awkward at your office holiday party, you’re not alone.

It’s holiday time again — which means fundatory social mingling is back in full force. But maybe this year will be different for some: I just stumbled across this ad on SF Craigslist, in which an enterprising young woman offers her (strictly platonic) services for those entrepreneurs and engineers who want a just-for-the-party fake girlfriend:

Win your office or investor holiday party with a strategic companion

The poster offers to help clients “develop a strategic plan for the party” and lists among her credentials that she “genuinely love[s] Star Trek and a bunch of other nerdy stuff, so we should have plenty of raw material from which to build a believable rapport.”

In addition to playing the part of a fake girlfriend (to impress your co-workers, presumably), the poster offers a slightly different package as a “Wing(wo)man to impress your boss or investors,” which includes research on your strategic targets and “Wardrobe emphasis on sharp professionalism that still lets you look like yourself.”

Only in San Francisco?