From the “we have grant money we need to spend” department and the website “Ethical Jobs” comes this new-age lamebrained job posting.
JOB VACANCY: ‘CLIMATE EMERGENCY OFFICER’ $100K + p.a
Craig Kelly writes on Facebook:
It’s not a joke. The City of Yarra Council in Victoria are going to spend over $100,000 p.a to fund a ‘Climate Emergency Officer’ who will ‘’promote climate emergency information’’.
It is not the job of Local Councils to peddle lies to try and indoctrinate the ignorant, gullible & naive in the Doomsday Cult of Climatism.
Rather than peddle lies about ‘global warming’, the City of Yarra should be currently concentrating on using their resources to shovel all the snow that has recently fallen off their roads.
And if this local council wants to fund a propaganda officer – we can just deduct all the cost from the Federal Government grants the City of Yarra receive.
Hard working Australians should not be forced to fund this rubbish.
Here is the listing: https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/Members/CityofYarra/climate-emergency-officer
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Sounds as reasonable as a diversity and inclusion position at a university…
I think this is a great opportunity for Mr Watts to spread a bit of truth
Part of the real AGW agenda: A high-paying jobs program for people the free market economy has absolutely no use for.
Not only that, but their job is essentially to destroy private sector free market.
In the Philippines Rodrigo Duturte would probably have a different approach to dealing with such suppurating ideological puss-filled scabs on the rump of humanity. And it would work too.
An alternative job title could be, “Chief Hoop-Jumping Co-Ordinator”! After all, that’s all it’s about, employing people of dubious societal worth on vast taxpayer-funded salaries, benefits, & pensions, to force others to jump through hoops, the we do it because we can mentality, & if any societal benefit occurs along the way by pure accident then we’re justified! The UK has been suffereing from this kind of crap public sector wastefulness for donkeys’ years! Orwell Rules!
Which will end their source of finance eventually as it becomes a Soviet/Venezuelan style paradise.
According to wiki the City of Yarra has a population of 87k. That’s a dollar each to fund this position.
Rates are per household, you need to redo it with the number of households in the council. It’s inner city Melbourne so most are rabbid inner city greenies so non of the ratepayers will care.
No. $100,000 is what they will pay this person. Sell rate (ie what the person costs) is 1.5 to 2 times that.
So more likely something like $2.50 per person.
Councils are stuffed with these idiots fresh out of university with Degrees Without Meaning.
Coming to the city you live in really soon !
Did you hear about the flasher who was thinking of retiring? He decided to stick it out a little longer.
I didn’t realise it was 1st April down under.
It is always April 1st in Victoria and South Australia.
When is Father’s day? About 9 months before Mother’s day.
New South Wales catching up. We now have 16 councils who have declared a climate emergency.
theres a huge email campaign by getup avaaz and greenpi$$ scaring the wiless into signing to anny/intimidate councils
I got one
so I went in person to the council to note MY protest at such idiocy , and chatted a couple of the older excouncil but influential landholder to what was going on;-)
theyll take care of that!! ;-))0
Maybe a Kangaroo will get the job.
Propaganda Officer … there, I fixed it
I remember seeing a similar ad way back when in the classified section of Pravda.
Right, that’s it!
I have learned enough from WUWT and notalotofpeopleknowthat to apply for this job and have myself a nice little earner until I decide to retire.
Griff and Loydo are my guiding lights.
I can walk into Yarra City offices and give them every single possible reason we should embrace wind turbines, welcome solar panels, enjoy Electric Vehicles and abandon air conditioning in the home.
I can get pretty alarmist you know….No really, I can!
As they say, if you can’t beat the elitist’s, you might as well join them. And for $100k my moral fibre is pretty flexible.
You know, I think this calls for a new acronym: MFEQ – Moral Fiber Elasticity Quotient.
Remember that’s Australian dollars.. you’ll be selling your principles pretty cheap..
Beat me to it HS … I was just going to suggest that Griff apply for the position!!
This international law firm advertises for a secretary.A golden retriever comes in,and she passes the typing test.In the interview,the personnel manager says,”But how about foreign languages?” And the golden retriever says,”Meow”.
Damn, you beat me to it. How about a job share? My moral fibre is about as flexible as a NOAA temperature adjustment so we should be a shoe in.
Hot scot
Your recent letter was very good. All you need to do is to forget all that and instead put yourself into the mindset of the mp who replied to you and quote from his letter at the interview.
Don’t forget, quote from your letter and you will be shown the door, quote from his letter and you are a cert for the job.
Good luck!
Tonyb
Tonyb
Working on it mate. Recruiting some help hopefully.
Hot Scot –
The beauty of it is that if you land the job, you don’t have to actually accomplish anything. Nope, you’d be a government employee and nearly impossible to fire, regardless of the results you produce.
It helps to always appear to be busy, but it’s not a requirement. However if you do, and nothing is being accomplished, you can ask for an assistant or two to help you keep up! Pretty soon you’ll find yourself in charge of a fair-sized department with all the perks of a department head. Oh, and don’t hire anyone competent or things will start getting done. Then they will stop increasing your department’s head count.
Go for it! Go for the gold!
H.R. – a fan of C. Northcote Parinson I see! The successful candidate for this position need only read the first chapter of Parkinson’s Law to know how to expand the scope, importance and salary of this position through a simple system of non-accomplishment of fuzzily stated goals (alway due to lack of “adequate” staff).
AU$100k might get you a beach hut to change swimware in. Watch out for needles on the beach too…
Now there is an idea, increase rates on properties that have heating and A/C by $3,000 PA and remove their parking permits.
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£58,000. Not enough to be morally flexible IMHO. About the same as a UK train driver.
When I worked for a large “Computer Company” in 1995 in the UK, GBP5,000 was the wage. I knew I should have been a train driver!
“Rather than peddle lies about ‘global warming’, the City of Yarra should be currently concentrating on using their resources to shovel all the snow that has recently fallen off their roads.”
Wow, the snow just falls off the roads in Yarra?
The thought of Snow on the roads in Australia is kind of scary. There are very few plough trucks, and I doubt that salt spreading is allowed. No one has snow tyres, and most people have never driven in snow before.
Yeah, but the snow just “falls off the road”, so no need for any of that stuff.
All the roads in Australia these days are slippery slopes. Hence the snow fall-off.
Not quite true James. We get snow in the Great Dividing Range and had plenty locally, more than usual, a couple of days ago. There are ski resorts and people are required to have snow chains or snow tyres to drive up to them. Our nearest, Lake Mountain (for cross-country skiing) in Victoria, has a clear sign out in Marysville about that. Those who drive regularly in snow know how to cope with it…townie ‘looken peepers’ are more of a hazard to themselves and others.
I am not aware that salt is ever used.
An alternative job title could be, “Chief Hoop-Jumping Co-Ordinator”! After all, that’s all it’s about, employing people of dubious societal worth on vast taxpayer-funded salaries, benefits, & pensions, to force others to jump through hoops, the we do it because we can mentality, & if any societal benefit occurs along the way by pure accident then we’re justified! The UK has been suffereing from this kind of crap public sector wastefulness for donkeys’ years! Orwell Rules!
“Behavior change” is one of the job responsibilities. Will this become a matter of “our gulag is greener than your gulag”?
He/she will be in charge of the beatings that will continue until morale improves department.
Requires an IQ below 80.
Got an IQ that’s about room temperature.
Just to clarify, that’s in Celsius of course!
Why not Fahrenheit? If it’s below zero,In your terms,it would be called ‘UnColA’.
“The City of Yarra should be currently concentrating on using their resources to shovel all the snow that has recently fallen off their roads.”
What ?
City of Yarra is entirely inner Melbourne trendy belt. No snowfall. Thats outlying areas that are much higher altitudes.
Ironically, the job comes with a petrol powered SUV for its dependability.
Good wine in Yarra, go for it!
Good wine from the Yarra Valley, outside Melbourne. Snow sometimes falls on the Dandenongs, also outside Melbourne…just.
I’ll pretend I’m an Aussie alarmist for that! Let’s see, hmmm, “calm down everyone, you’re being lied to and there’s no climate emergency, there is however more taxation revenue desperately needed so please fork it over”. How’s that work?
AU$100k maybe above the average wage but it’s not a lot of money when you consider the price of Melbourne property and the rates people have to pay.
I forgot, the ad says $100k + p/a. I does not say what that package is. Whatever the “+” is, lets say $10,000, you will lose 9.5% of the total (On $110k that is $10,450) to compulsory superannuation before you’ve been taxed on the remainder.
Adapted from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Although by they time they hit the bricks, what the crew was saying was “Egermency, egermency, everyone to get from street.”
That’s the way I remember it.
Scratch that, They didn’t say “egermency” as I recall, but did say “everyone to get from street”.
Yes, they did exactly say ” egermency”. Mispronouncing the word was part of the joke. Check it out on YouTube.
man I would love that job.
would speak the lingo to get the job then totally wreck the departments involved.
Looks like Greenpeace may have had some influence https://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/melbourne-city-has-declared-a-climate-emergency-whos-next/
Or maybe these nuts https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/climate-emergency-campaign
No beef for the London millennials
from ‘mirror’
” Goldmsiths University in London bans beef burgers to help save the planet from climate change”
from express:
“It’s 25 years since John Gummer, who was then agriculture minister, took part in this publicity stunt involving his unwitting four-year-old daughter Cordelia. The very public feeding of the burger to the child was supposed to convince the nation that British beef was perfectly safe.”
I notice the weather forecast for Melbourne is a maximum of 13 degrees C and a few showers. How to deal with such an emergency ?
That sort of weather can shutdown the airport.
Here’s a link to the snow problem in southeast Australia. Apparently, they got up to ten inches of the white stuff. It must confuse the roos, because they’ve been out, bouncing around in it.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/commuters-warned-not-to-drive-as-snow-and-90km-winds-continue-lash-south-east-australia/news-story/93c5a414eb8f7d224f8ea83b13333951
Classification: Advocacy and campaigns.
Yep, that’ll be right.
It sounds like the mayor’s brother-in-law needs a job????……….. and soon he’ll need an assistant and a few secretaries. And I’m sure there is not one homeless person in Yarra. Sooooooo sad.
Yes and once he/she/it is hired they will be able to say they are the CEO.
Sounds about right.