My first thought, on reading this guy's account of Rose Parade volunteering, was "shouldn't they find a way to outsource this?"
My second: Why pay some guy in India 25 cents an hour when they can get this chump to do this absolutely free?
My third: He spent hours doing what? Heaven forbid he spend the same amount of time at a battered women's shelter, in a classroom, in a hospital, or on any of dozens of other projects that much more directly make the world a better place. "Tediously beautiful," indeed.
(To be sure, there are a lot of things I spend hours doing that could have been much more nobly spent on the aforementioned charity work. But I'm very clear-eyed about that being my own time. If you're going to blow a huge chunk of hours doing something so unpleasant in its own right, why on Earth would you let the greater good be something so lame?)
Posted by Matt Bruce at January 8, 2008 06:05 PM