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Posted on 05/05/2024 10:59:15 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
U.S. — Forbes has released its newest list of "Most Desirable Employee Candidates", which saw Ivy League graduates slip down just below carnies and the people who wash car windows at stoplights.
"We surveyed the top 500 companies in the United States," explained lead author Dan Rollins. "Employers consistently stated they would pass over a Harvard or Columbia grad for a guy with two years of experience operating a Tilt-A-Whirl. It's been quite a shift."
According to Rollins, most CEOs stated they wouldn't even bother interviewing an Ivy League grad if they had the option to hire a four-year carnie with balloon dart experience. "The carnies are so much better at conversing with people from every walk of life. They aren't stuck in that Ivy League bubble," explained business owner Larry Fink. "Also, they don't attempt to burn down your corporate office because the break room coffee machine was made in Israel. Advantage, carnie."
Carnies received higher marks than Ivy League grads in work ethic, interpersonal communication, and not attempting to destroy people and institutions with racist neo-Marxist ideology. "The only real downside to hiring carnies instead of Columbia grads is we had to go back to allowing smoke breaks," said Fink. "Otherwise, it's been a massive upgrade. No stating pronouns, no trigger warnings, no boycotts... and they actually know how to work. I'll take that along with some Marlboro Reds any day."
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Having worked alongside Showmen for some 30 years in the Fair Industry—I second that emotion!
Well dang, it’s the Bee. I was hoping it was legit! Well done Bee.
It just might be, The Bee has a history of reporting future news accurately.
Had me going there for a second. Just read the headline and got so excited I failed to see the source. However, I’d take a farmer or construction project manager over any Ivy Leaguer any day.
If you can operate a Tilt-A-Whirl, you’re hired on the spot.
I spent a week with a traveling carnival when I hitchhiked through Louisiana searching for the carnival to visit a buddy and finally found it in a small town there.
Aside from my buddy they are a sorry lot and I almost had to fight my way in but they still resented my showing up and working there, at least for the first couple of days.
I think they were in Mamou that period.
What are carnies?
Carnival workers.
They are quite similar:
“Everybody’s a winner!”
Which really means, “I win, you lose.”
This would be funny if it wasn’t true.
I still laughed.
“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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He would include students now.
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The last time I went to the fair, several years ago, the carnies were a bunch of east European young people. I don’t know that they were any better than the normal carnies, but they durn sure looked a lot better. Some of the women were very attractive.
I didn't look, but this has to be Babylon Bee. Or maybe just reality.
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