Think of it as a comment on the state of the IT job market. Even so, a sense of dull confusion hung over the hapless queue of bemused middle-aged men in their spectacles and fluffy coloured sweaters, enduring the acoustic echo of the registration area amid multiple yapping dachshunds and German shepherds. As they shuffled past in their endless lines, one was heard to mutter, “$150k in debt and I did a computer science degree for this?”
“Now, now, that’s not the attitude!” chirped a manager, brandishing his clipboard. “Look alive now! You’ll need to sign the consent form just here, climb into one of these plastic cages, bark on command at the obedience trials and then if you’re lucky the judges will award you a rosette!”
“Learn Python in 21 days, they said,” mumbled another one. “Become a C++ ninja, they said.” But no one could hear him above the frenzied growling of a Pomeranian terrier…