Actually, I know people who work for the Redmond Borg^™, and there is a level of real stupidity there that drives them crazy.

Microsoft security engineer makes top-10 worst jobs list

By Lewis Page
Published Wednesday 27th June 2007 11:39 GMT

Summer’s here, and ’tis the season to be compiling lists. One of the most eagerly awaited is the Ten Worst Jobs in Science, issued by Popular Science magazine. This year the roster of horrible occupations has gained widespread attention because it includes “Microsoft Security Grunt”.

Working at the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC), according to the PopSci writers, is “like wearing a big sign that says ‘hack me’… It’s tedious work… to most hackers, crippling Microsoft is the geek equivalent of taking down the Death Star, so the assault is relentless.”

PopSci places a job on the Redmond battlements at number five, worse than whale-dung analyst, corpse-maggot expert, Olympic drug tester and zero gee health-effects guinea pig.

The only things worse than standing between Windows users and the ravening haxor hordes were being a rubbish-dump researcher, elephant vasectomist, oceanographer – because the oceans are getting so polluted – and at number one, hazmat diver. (“They swim in sewage. Enough said.”)

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