With “killer instinct” and “thirsty for blood”: New York seeks a boss to end the plague of rats



The New York City Council claims to need an expert “with a killer instinct” to kill off the hundreds of thousands of rodents that are putting the city in check. The mayor himself, Eric Adams, is the one who wrote the announcement and says that they are looking for a real “rat czar.” The lucky one, because they consider it “a dream job”, would earn a salary of between 120,000 and 170,000 dollars, about 161,551 euros. An offer to value when it comes to killing rats in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

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The context… The new New York superhero is now a rat slayer. The mayor of New York has exposed this new job opportunity between humor and epic to attract attention and appeal to the citizen conscience:

  • To take down the city’s “true enemy,” according to the Mayor’s Office, they need a “rat czar” to take down these animals that are conquering New York City. In addition to this, it offers a salary that could seduce all those people who now prefer to work in private companies.
  • According to new government data, sightings of rats across the city have increased by 71% since 2020. As of the end of September, there were more than 21,000 reports.
  • Complaints that have been increasing, also in 2021, and that many attribute to the restoration. Specifically, to all those open-air areas that had been implemented during the pandemic.
  • In fact, millions of calls of rodent sightings have been received in the last two years.

How does it work? Of course, it is not a job for everyone and not because it is attractive, but because they consider it essential that you know how to work in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint:

  • Also required, along with a bachelor’s degree, five to eight years of professional experience in urban planning and project management, at least three references, and a New York City resident.
  • Although the most surprising required skills are “the general aura of evil” or a “virulent vehemence for vermin”.
  • “The ideal candidate is someone highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty determined to look at all solutions from different angles, including improving operational efficiency, data collection, technological innovation, waste management, and wholesale slaughter. “, the offer details.

Because it is important? As the mayor himself explained to support his initiative, rats are one of the fastest reproducing mammals:

  • Females are considered sexually mature at 40 to 60 days from birth: a record time.
  • In addition, in a single litter the female has an average of 10 to 20 pups. That makes them one of the most common pest-species.
  • Another point to take into account are the diseases that these animals transmit, which in addition to being dangerous to our health, is quite common because they eat our food and tend to urinate, infecting all surfaces.

For note… According to an annual study by Orkin, a pest control company, New York is one of the cities with the most rats:

  • Preceded by Chicago, New York is in second place. Behind it, Los Angeles, Washington and San Francisco.
  • Benjamin Hottel, an Orkin entomologist, said Chicago, like New York, “is a densely populated city and has stretches that may have structural problems.” Rats take advantage of these problems, moving like fish in water between the cracks of the buildings.
  • Recently the city has seen a large abandonment of the municipal workforce, relegated by more hiring by private companies and Adams’s absolute refusal to allow a hybrid work schedule that includes telecommuting.

Source: Lasexta

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