A ‘dream job’ in New York: ‘bloodthirsty’ boss at City Hall over rat ‘slaughter’

Looking for a “dream job” in NYC? The City That Never Sleeps offers a job as the “bloody” head of a municipal service dedicated to the “slaughter” of millions of rats in the megacity, for $120,000-170,000 a year.

The New York City annexed “director of rodent reduction program” position can become “your dream job” if you are dedicated “24 hours a day, 7 days a week with tenacity and a sense of staging” boasts a very serious announcement released Wednesday by Mayor Eric Adams, a tough former police officer who wants to fight back against the scourges of his city.

“There is NOTHING I hate as 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 he visited the city in 1842.

Nearly two centuries on, “the ideal candidate” for Wednesday’s job posting “must be ultra-driven, quite bloodthirsty, determined to look at all solutions from various angles, especially to improve operational efficiency, collection data, technological innovation, waste management and large-scale abatement” of these parasites that proliferate in the streets and subways of New York.

The burgeoning mayor of New York, a center-right African-American Democratic elected official, is offering an annual salary of $120,000 to $170,000 to “achieve the impossible” with a “virulent aversion to vermin” and “a reputation for ringworm.”

City Hall requires a bachelor’s degree, first experience in urban planning and project management, and above all “determination and killer instinct to fight the real enemy: New York’s relentless population of rats”.

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: the mayor at the time of the Brooklyn district presented it in 2019, during an unsustainable demonstration … formerly Mr. Adams .

In 2021, after the pandemic, a private association of Manhattan residents called RATS organized hunts with their dogs to kill as many rats as possible.