“Slaughtering” the city’s millions of rats can bring in between $120,000 and $170,000 a year.
Looking for a “dream job” in New York? The city that never sleeps is offering a job as the “bloodthirsty” head of a city hall service dedicated to the “slaughter” of millions of rats in the megalopolis, for 120,000 to 170,000 dollars a year.
The position of “rodent reduction program director” attached to the city of New York can become “your dream job” if you devote yourself to it “24 hours a day, 7 days a week with tenacity and sense of the staging”, boasts a very serious announcement published Wednesday by the mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer with a fist who wants to fight against the scourges of his city.
“There is NOTHING I hate so much as rats,” he hammered Thursday on Twitter, promising his fellow citizens: “Your dream job is waiting for you.”
According to a tenacious urban legend, there are as many rats in New York as there are people, or nearly nine million. The famous English novelist Charles Dickens had already complained about it when visiting the city in 1842.
Almost two centuries later, “the ideal candidate” for Wednesday’s job offer “must be ultra-motivated, quite bloodthirsty, determined to examine all solutions from various angles, in particular to improve operational efficiency, the data collection, technological innovation, waste management and the large-scale culling” of these pests that proliferate in the streets and subways of New York.
A fabulous salary
The booming mayor of New York, a centre-right elected African-American Democrat, 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 town hall requires a bachelor’s degree, a first experience in urban planning and project management, and above all “determination and a killer instinct to fight the real enemy: the relentless rat population in New York”.
Like many American cities, New York is also famous for its rodents. Especially because of the garbage bags left by residents and traders on the sidewalks, without containers.
Spending millions of dollars, the municipality regularly tries new techniques to eradicate rats, such as dry ice or alcohol baths: this was presented in 2019, during an unsustainable demonstration, the mayor at the time of the borough of Brooklyn… already Eric Adams.
