• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    We have a term here in Brazil, for appointed “job” positions that seem to have no responsibilities and are basically a way for rich people to place their relatives and such in places close to power:

    Aspone. Assessor de Porra Nenhuma. Translates to like “Advisor of Fucking Nothing”

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      In argentina we call them ñoquis. Which is a food that we traditionally ate on the 29th of each month. The joke being that these people show up once per month at the end for their paycheck and do nothing the rest of the days