Naples, 26 thousand aspiring garbage collectors: even 1000 graduates. "We want to work"

Naples, the response of young people and not only: “We are not slackers”

The competition for ecological operators to Naples makes register numbers almost from record. “Asia”, the South’s largest environmental sanitation services company seeks 500 employees. At the test to get the job, however – we read in the press – they showed up 26,114 candidates. Of these 1,232 they have one Graduation10,445 a high school diploma, the rest, therefore most, have the only one middle School diploma. Angela smiles, who looks like a girl but she is thirty-eight and the wedding ring on her finger. “I have a degree in Social Sciences but I’m still precarious. What was I supposed to do? I have a family, times are what they are, work is work. If they catch me I’ll be one garbage man with a degree“. Among the candidates there are also those who have given up the toga.”Young people Not they are gods slackers but they are looking for one fixed and decent pay“.

In the long cordoned off path – continues La Stampa – there is everything, from the young man in Bermuda shorts and deliberately crumpled T-shirt to lady with a skin-tight leopard dresscome on over 35 accompanied by mom at pregnant womenup to not a few gentlemen with gray hair or even whites. Candidates over the age of 50 come close to three thousand. The theme of the answers also reverberates on the other side of the barriers, where those who have already taken the exam are leaving. “I just did not understand the criterion, many requests to go sweep the streets? “says Luisa. She then adds ironically:” If I don’t know who won the Sanremo festival or I have not seen i pirate movies Am I not suitable for the job of street sweeper? ”The reference is to two quizzes that ask for the year in which i Maneskin they won the famous singing competition and the name of the captain of the saga Pirates of the Caribbean.