Monday, August 11, 2008

Since When Did "Dirty Jobs" Just Become "Jobs"?

I was watching Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe the other day and noticed something mildly alarming: Namely, has anyone noticed that lately, Dirty Jobs has just become Jobs?

In a recent episode, our dear friend, regally balding Mike Rowe, was affably occupying his time scraping paint off of a paint truck. Is this what qualifies as a dirty job nowadays? I feel like this is a pretty standard blue collar gig, not particularly dirty at all. I mean, I’m the least manly person I know who actually has functioning male genitalia and even I’ve done some paint scraping in my day.

The cherry on top of the WTF Sunday was his latest “dirty job”: a package handler who loads boxes into a truck. I mean come on!! What horribly disgusting ordeal will Mike Rowe put himself through next? Claims adjuster? Attorney at law? Perhaps an amateur bird photographer?

The last time I checked, mortician, nursing home orderly and porn fluffer haven’t been featured on the show yet and should come WAY before Mike Rowe finds himself doing work normally associated with high school sophomores and smoking weed in the break room.

If you’re going to call your show “Dirty Jobs” then do some jobs that involve acts so terrifying, so gruesome, that cleaning up the spot I was sitting in while watching the program counts as a dirty job.

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