December 05, 2005

silhouette3.JPG From the desk of Jane Galt:

You think you had some crappy jobs?

Scott Adams points to the best and worst jobs in the world.

Yet another “third highest ranking al-Qaida leader” has been killed, this time by a rocket attack from an unmanned drone. There are a lot of jobs that I wouldn’t want, and “third highest ranking al-Qaida leader” is right at the top. But I can tell you for sure that if I ever got that job, the first thing I’d do is narc out one of the top two guys so I could move up a notch. Apparently one of the perks of being in the top two is having a really, really good hiding place. The number 3 through 10 leadership guys are pretty much scurrying between mud huts and looking at the sky a lot.

. . .

Maybe it’s just a “guy thing” but the idea of blowing up a mud hut by remote controlled drone sounds like the most fun thing I can think of. And if the number 3 al-Qaida leader happens to be inside, that’s a bonus. It certainly makes your story sound less nerdy afterwards.

I find it interesting that the guy with the best job in the world gets to blow up the guy with the worst job in the world. That’s really rubbing it in. But I guess it’s not so different from a CEO downsizing the auditing department. It’s one of those recurring themes in life.

Posted by Jane Galt at December 5, 2005 06:03 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links
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Scott Adam's blog is one of the best new blogs around.

Posted by: Hei Lun Chan on December 5, 2005 06:51 PM

that was the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

and even the howard dean's of the world are going to lass their ass off, before they deny that they ever saw what was funny about denying the rightful insurgent privileges of an indigenous population!

scott adams is god.

Posted by: hey on December 5, 2005 09:59 PM

apparently my keyboard isn't working properly, and "laugh" gets typed as "lass".

that or the 2 bottles of wine from or deal dinner are killing me. either or.

back to drunk spreadsheeting.

Posted by: hey on December 5, 2005 10:20 PM

Hopefully his blog is funnier than Dilbert is these days.

Posted by: Rufus Sarsaparilla on December 6, 2005 04:12 PM

Rufus:

I find Dilbert to be quite amusing these days -- maybe because I find so much of my own company in there and I can relate to it so well.

--mike

Posted by: Mike P on December 7, 2005 07:23 AM

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