“Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber: Career progression”

Title“Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber: Career progression”
Year for Search2024
AuthorsBurnett, Emily
Secondary TitleNature
Date PublishedSeptember 4, 2024
KeywordsFemale author, UK author
Annotation

The cover letter of an application for a position at the bottom of the workforce on a starship evacuating well off people from Earth. The details the woman provides reveals the dystopia that is the Earth.

URLhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02812-9
DOI10.1038/d41586-024-02812-9
Illustration

Illus. Jacey

Author Note

Female author

Full Text

2024 Burnett, Emma. “Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber: Career progression.” Illus. Jacey. Nature (September 4, 2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02812-9 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02812-9

The cover letter of an application for a position at the bottom of the workforce on a starship evacuating well off people from Earth. The details the woman provides reveals the dystopia that is the Earth. The female author holds a doctorate from the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience at the University of Coventry and an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford.