Outsourcing firm hires chimps

[spotbird]

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"Primate Programming Inc, of Des Moines, Iowa has leveraged this innate talent to teach programming skills to primates and to resell their services."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/32143.html

I'll be damned, I thought the only other job they were good for was President.

[JohnKleeb]

1. Can you imagine

losing your job to a chimp, poor Al Gore that is what happened to him.

[Pert_UK]

2. I'm confused...this is clearly a joke, but played out 100% deadpan.

Very funny, but so much work has gone into the site and it has no indication that it's satire / a joke, which it clearly is.

Good stuff though, although of course monkeys have been working on IT Helpdesks for years....

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P.