New York City Hall has a funny idea of what a “dream job” is. In fact, the “city that never sleeps” is offering a job as a “bloodthirsty” head of a town hall service dedicated to “slaughtering” millions of rats in the metropolis for between $120,000 and $170,000 a year.
The position of Rodent Reduction Program Manager at New York City Council can become “your dream job, provided you dedicate yourself to it “24 hours a day, 7 days a week with tenacity and a sense of staging,” boasts a very serious one Announcement released this Wednesday by Mayor Eric Adams, a tough ex-cop looking to fight his city’s scourges. “There is NOTHING I hate more than rats,” he pounded on Twitter on Thursday, promising his fellow citizens, “Your dream job is waiting for you.”
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You must have “a killer instinct”.
According to a persistent urban legend, there are as many rats in New York as there are people, or nearly nine million. The famous English novelist Charles Dickens complained about this when he visited the city in 1842.
Nearly two centuries later, “the ideal candidate” for Wednesday’s job posting must be “highly motivated, quite bloodthirsty and determined to examine all solutions from multiple angles, particularly to improve operational efficiencies, data collection, technological innovation, waste management and the… “mass culling” of these pests spreading through the streets and subways of New York.
The booming mayor of New York, an official elected by the center-right African American Democracy, is offering an annual salary of $120,000 to $170,000 to “accomplish the impossible” with a “virulent aversion to vermin” and “a reputation for tinea “. The town hall also requires a bachelor’s degree, initial experience in urban planning and project management and, above all, “determination and a killer instinct to fight the real enemy”.
Hunts with dogs to kill rats
Like many American cities, New York is famous for its rodents. Mainly because of the rubbish bags that local residents and traders leave on the sidewalks without a container.
The community spends millions of dollars and regularly tries out new techniques to eradicate rats, like dry ice or alcohol baths: These were presented to the mayor in the borough of Brooklyn’s days during an unsustainable demonstration in 2019 … namely Eric Adams himself.
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.