I’m an electrical apprentice, so I’m going to hazard a hopeful no. I’d certainly like to think all the things I’m struggling to master wouldn’t be simple for a simian.
However, I worked on an assembly line for eleven years, most often monkeys would have been a far better fit for that kind of repetitive work.
Although a monkey could not do my job due to their limited proficiency in computer use and evaluation of written English, I’m fairly certain a monkey with a word processor might do a better job producing work for us than some of the kids do; most do fairly well, but there’s a small number, yeesh. Although, maybe the ones that seem to be 4 pages of blank verse (or as a coworker asked about one exemplar Tuesday “is this a word scramble?”) might actually already be being written by monkeys…
I don’t think a smart monkey could do my job, although I’d love some monkeys to work in Dietary.
See the pretty red sign, monkey? NPO? No food, monkey, no food, got it? Okay!
So far, this hasn’t worked on the 18 year olds Dietary hires.
Something like, say, an orangutang could prolly handle most of it… I work in a college bookstore and at any given moment I might be running a register, helping someone find the 5x5 quad paper, or schleping boxes of textbooks in the warehouse downstairs (or, as I call it due to the tastes in music down there, “The Dungeon of Smooth Jazz”).
Monkey, no. Orang, yeah. They’d be like Pratchet’s Librarian.
Be great, too, cos then I’d have more time to discreetly ogle my HAWT co-worker.
Something like, say, an orangutang could prolly handle most of it… I work in a college bookstore and at any given moment I might be running a register, helping someone find the 5x5 quad paper, or schleping boxes of textbooks in the warehouse downstairs (or, as I call it due to the tastes in music down there, “The Dungeon of Smooth Jazz”).
Monkey, no. Orang, yeah. They’d be like Pratchet’s Librarian.
Be great, too, cos then I’d have more time to discreetly ogle my HAWT co-worker.
Hmmm. Well, if one considers that in the Middle Ages, disputes were sometimes settled via trial by combat, and the modern practice of litigation, substituting briefs for battleaxes is not necessarily any more just, then yeah…an armed monkey could probably accomplish about as much as I ever have.
I like Alive At Both Ends’ answer. 95% of my job is doing specialized things with computers and audio equipment, the rest is speaking. If my boss was a monkey, we might have more faith in management.
It’s not that a monkey couldn’t do my job; it’s that a monkey doesn’t have the self-restrait to not chew out his co-monkeys’ throats when they get all irrational and stupid. That’s why I get paid the big bucks, because I don’t chew out throats. Minus that, sure, monkey city.