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Screening Job Applicants by Having Them Draw Pigs

Do I get the job?

As anyone who has traveled to Central Europe knows, pork is king, at least on the dining room table. It is not uncommon, in fact quite the contrary, for pork entrees on restaurant menus in Budapest, Warsaw and Prague to greatly exceed beef, poultry and fish dishes. And families in small towns and villages still gather for annual — and sometimes more frequent — pig killings.

Thus it should come as no surprise that a tipster of ours in a sizeable city in Mitteleuropa told us that when applying for a position (that had nothing to do with design work) at a well-known company one of the tasks he was asked to perform — along with a half-dozen other applicants assembled in a room — was to draw a pig.

The Job That Earns the Most Per Labor Done: F1 Pit Crew Worker

Yesterday while watching the Australian Grand Prix it dawned on me that the job in which a person can make the most amount of money in relation the amount of time actually worked.

A Formula One pit crew worker.

An average pit stop is over and done with in five seconds, ten at the most. A overly liberal estimate would be that a driver makes four pit stops in a race. So that’s 40 seconds of work multiplied by 19 races for a total of 12 minutes and 40 seconds worth of work in a year – assuming a driver finishes each race.

So, even if a pit crew member is paid on the lower end of the salary scale, say $30,000 a year, it still means he is getting $30,000 for 12 minutes and 40 seconds worth of work each year.

And he gets to travel all over the world on top of it.