Are you looking for a “dream job” in New York? The City That Never Sleeps offers a job as the “bloodthirsty” head of a municipal service dedicated to the “killing” of millions of rats in the megalopolis, for $120,000 to $170,000 a year.
The “rodent abatement program manager” position attached to New York City can become “your dream job” if you stick to it “24/7 diligently and sense of staging”, boasts a very serious announcement published this Wednesday by Mayor Eric Adams, an ex-policeman with a fist who wants to fight against the scourges of his city.
“There is NOTHING I hate more than rats,” he hammered on Twitter on Thursday, promising his fellow citizens: “Your dream job is waiting for you.”
According to a tenacious urban legend, in New York there are as many rats as people, or almost nine million. The famous English novelist Charles Dickens had already complained about it when he visited the city in 1842.
Nearly two centuries later, “the ideal candidate” for Wednesday’s job posting “must be ultra-motivated, quite bloodthirsty, determined to examine all solutions from various angles, particularly to improve operational efficiency, data collection, innovation technology, waste management and large-scale killing” of these pests that proliferate in the streets and subways of New York.
A fabulous salary
New York’s rising mayor, a center-right African-American Democratic elected official, offers an annual salary of $120,000 to $170,000 to “achieve the impossible” with a “virulent aversion to vermin” and “a reputation for ringworm.”
The city council requires a bachelor’s degree, a first experience in urban planning and project management, and above all “determination and killer instinct to fight the real enemy: New York’s relentless rat population.”
Like many American cities, New York is also famous for its rodents. Especially because of the garbage bags left by neighbors and merchants on the sidewalks, without containers.
Spending millions of dollars, the municipality periodically tests new techniques to eradicate rats, such as dry ice or alcohol baths: this is how it was presented in 2019, during an unsustainable demonstration, by the then mayor of the borough of Brooklyn… and by Eric Adams .
Source: BFM TV
