Monday, June 11, 2012

Trust and Jobs



Is there a single profession left in this country that anyone actually trusts?
Politicians, lawyers, journalists, CEOs, union leaders, lobbyists and builders are despised by just about everybody, according to my own unscientific analysis of some recent polls. The ranks of the reviled also include car salesmen, real-estate agents, telemarketers, plumbers, ad executives and even some members of the clergy. Not to mention such legendarily untrustworthy groups as actors, psychiatrists, weathermen and baristas, who routinely substitute generic 2% milk for the organic Vermont free-range soy skim that you asked for.

Read the rest of Joe Queenan here.

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