Humour
Most people in SA have rubbish jobs
If they're even lucky enough to have one, that is
23 February 2020 - 00:01
I would estimate that easily 90% of us have rubbish jobs. The phrase "good job" may, in fact, be a cruel oxymoron. What makes this even more disturbing in good ole SA is that having a crappy job applies only to the lucky ones who are employed. That's correct: in this country, being a telemarketer makes you one of the luckiest people. If you're a Zulu marketer, you probably get sworn at by 37 people a day while wearing isiphandla, the spiritual bangle you get after appeasing the ancestors by means of dead goat...
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