Now you've got "Tom Corbett" and "car date" in your head forever. You're welcome.
In his defense, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett just said they they were jobs. He didn't say they were
good jobs.
A state job portal includes job openings for exotic dancers at a bachelor party, “car dates” and “casting couch openings.”
The casting couch ad in Pittsburgh sought “hot mom and daughter combos” and “young busty females between 18-45,” according to the state's Job Gateway site, and the car date seeks “a sexy woman” who is older than 18. [...]
Well, oops. This would be the official state jobs portal, mind you, the one Corbett was bubbling about as a triumph of job-creatin'.
Corbett said “because of the great work that my secretary of labor, Julia Hearthway, and all the people at labor, we created a job gateway site so people in Pennsylvania can go and look to see where there are jobs. And today that site, on average, shows about 200,000 open jobs.”
The catch appears to be that the state-labor-department-created "
jobs portal" is sucking in and reposting job offers from Craigslist, the free marketplace where "jobs" could mean anything from landing a genuine retail sales job to ending up in a burlap sack in somebody's trunk.
The ads included “private party dancing” for “one or two” dancers at a bachelor party.
One of the “car date” job openings noted “great legs are a plus.”
One ad offered $50 for a massage from a “nice female” and requested photos of the masseuse.
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is not really the sort of thing people are looking for when they go to the government-sponsored official jobs site to further their careers. But if we're going to get all PolitiFact about it, sure ... I suppose those are "jobs."
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