Deleted this craigslist ad to prevent entombment by lawyers
It was an ad for a difficult job paying 12.50 an hour, for a company importing Christmas ornaments from PRC.
Long ago, when I was still equivalent to married and John was living with us, he told a story about a Chinese dissident who after many travails escaped from China and came to live in Golden Mountain (Canada). He went to a dollar store and found the Christmas ornaments he’d been forced to make back in jail in China. Even if your Christmas chachkas are not made by dissident forced labour, there’s still a good chance that somebody not making a lot of money made them. And now, to complete the circle of capitalism, the above noted ad. They want a UNIVERSITY DEGREE, ability to translate back and forth between English and Cantonese/Mandarin, and the ability to work miserable hours for 12.50 of each of those delightful hours. And the hell of it is, this being Vancouver, they will probably get her. And you wonder why I have trouble finding a job.