Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Career Prospects in the Pain Business 9
"The government of a Middle Eastern state is recruiting a senior torturer to work in a well-equipped prison. Our ideal candidate would be prepared to inflict extreme pain and suffering."
http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/career-prospects-in-the-pain-business/34018/
It's not a real job listing (Score:1)
Many public institutions - Universities, National Labs, Secret Prisons - are required to publish/advertize job openings even if they plan to fill them internally.
So they want to promote Mustafa out of sales to a newly created torturer position, but they can't just hire him. They have to publish an advertizement and pretend to do a search and then, bang!, they thank everyone else for their interest and hire the best candidate, Mustafa; this was the plan all along.
So don't get your hopes up,
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You yet live!
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As a retired academic, I can tell you that "fill internally" has an entirely different meaning for University jobs.
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As a retired academic, I can tell you that "fill internally" has an entirely different meaning for University jobs.
As a current academic, I can tell you that I have no idea what it means for [b]non[/b]-University jobs.
So if you have a job as a professional programmer, and you want to hire your just-graduated CS Master's Student, you may have to publish the job, yeah? But then you just hire your former student anyway. Is that very different from filling a job internally in the private sector? Or in a secret dungeon?
Then for various administrative staff vacancies, there's often a policy to favor fillin
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In every part of the working world, "fill internally" has come to mean "fill internally from behind after bending (the worker) over a barrel.
That's the point I was trying to make in my clumsy way.
Severian (Score:1)
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Everything is a circle:
That article links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth_(subgenre) [wikipedia.org]
Which links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancers_at_the_End_of_Time [wikipedia.org]
Which links to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Cornelius [wikipedia.org]
Which I think is cool for what I hope are obvious reasons.
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Jherek Carnelian
Corum Jhaelen Irsei
A Clime Heros Injure
Vance is still alive (Score:1)