The Functionary

It’s a fine old job if you can manage to obtain it, fourteen monthly payments, all the pencils you could wish for and a comfy position at a desk next to the radiator for life: in short, a funcionario working for the State – and in a recent offer of 400 places in Madrid and other major cities, an astonishing 38,000 people showed up for the exams. One chance in a hundred. Story at El País here.