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Best Job Title Ever?

The Manchester (UK) City Council is advertising an employment position with what may be the best job title ever:

Teenage Pregnancy Implementation Manager.

I’m not kidding! If you think you would qualify and “want to develop your skills and experience in an exciting and supportive environment”, the position pays £29,728 to £33,291 and requires a grueling 35-hour work week. Read the complete job description and details, and if you feel, um, qualified, you’re invited to apply on-line at http://www.manchester.gov.uk/work/jobs. And get this. They “welcome applications from people wishing to job share.”

I can imagine the barrage of applications they are sure to receive for this position, especially from teenage boys…

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 at 08:00AM by Registered CommenterDoug in | Comments14 Comments

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LOL! If only I were a teen again!

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterTeddy

Too funny! And you would expect better from the stuffy Brits and their King's English. I wonder how long before they realize why they are getting so many bags of applications for the job, mostly from teenage boys LOL!

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterTina and Jack

Maybe the Brits are seeking an alternative to the "traditional" method of implementing teenage pregnancies, although I would have thought British teens needed little help in that department.

Perhaps the City Council is seeking a more clinical and better managed ("exciting and supportive") environment for impregnating Manchester's teens and needs someone to manage the process. Maybe they just want to watch. You never know. I mean, they're Brits, after all.

February 26 | Unregistered Commenterharmond876

I guess they had all this coming for posting such a boneheaded advert. I wonder how long it will take them to replace it. Meanwhile, we all get a good laugh~!

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterKristin

I would apply but I am over-qualified. And I hate fog.

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterFrank

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the British were installing "Teen Pregnancy Implementation Kiosks" on busy downtown street corners to give teens a "supportive" place to have sex. After all, teens are going to have sex and get pregnant anyway, so they may as well have an "exciting and supportive environment" for it. The "management" part is a provided brochure listing all the local clinics.

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterUncle Al

Their advert left off one thing: "Dirty old men need not apply."

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterLadyShasta

There it is, the ugly face of unfair discrimination against dirty old men. Experience counts for nothing any more.

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterUncle Al

ROFLOL!!! The comments are sometimes the best part of a post!!! This is one of those times.

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterJarrod P.

So you have "experience" in impregnating teenage girls?

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterLadyShasta

No, just a dumb, horny (and damn lucky!) kid. But you would have thought I was trying to impregnate them all!

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterUncle Al

If I lived in England I might apply for this position. The salary sounds all right, but the cost to live there is probably high. Gasoline sure is. And like Frank says, there is the fog.

I would just love to see the look on people's faces when they read my business card.

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterKramer

"And Marshall, tell us what you do for a living."

"Well, I am a manager for the City Council in charge of implementing teenage pregnancies."

"I suppose you think that's funny, wise ass?"

"No really, that is what I do!"

"Get out, you pervert!"

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterMarshall

And on the drive home:

"Marshall, I've asked you time and again to just tell people you work for the City. But nooooo, you have to give details!"

"Yes dear."

February 26 | Unregistered CommenterTeddy

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