You think you have a shitty job? This is a shitty job:

[ohiosmith]

[Quantess]

1. But, they live for that shit!

[GoneOffShore]

2. I can't believe that shit!

[rug]

3. It's not a job, it's a way of life.

[freshwest]

4. It's merely the animal kingdom's representation of a Republican, per Wikipedia:

...The behavior of the beetles was much misunderstood until the pioneering studies of Jean Henri Fabre. For example, Fabre corrected the myth that a dung beetle would seek aid from other dung beetles when confronted by obstacles. By painstaking observations and experiments, he found that the seeming helpers were in fact robbers awaiting an opportunity to steal the roller's food source:

'I ask myself in vain what Proudhon introduced into Scarabaean morality the daring paradox that "property means plunder", or what diplomatist taught the Dung-beetle the savage maxim that "might is right".<5>'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle

[LaurenG]

5. Revered in Eqypt as gods at one time

The ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles with two of their gods because of habits the beetle displayed. The first god related to the scarab is Khepri. This god emerged in the form of the rising sun, which moved across the sky pushed by a scarab, like a dung beetle moves its dung balls. According to the cosmogony of Heliopolis, the scarab was also associated with the god Atum. The Egyptians called this god “the one who came into being by himself”; in other words, the god created himself, just like the young beetles seem to appear out of nothing from the dung balls where the female beetle encloses her eggs (3).

The scarab was a powerful and very common amulet and a symbol of rebirth, renewal, and the endlessness of life. The size of scarabs varies from very small (1 cm long) to that of a heart scarab, which has an average length of 7.5 cm, and they were made in a wide variety of materials (Fig 1). Different types of inscriptions on scarabs can be divided into several well-defined groups and subgroups (3): (a) scarabs with hieroglyphic inscriptions, including royal names, private names, titles, names and figures of deities, good wishes, and magical formulas; (b) scarabs with figures of men, animals, or flowers; and (c) scarabs with geometric designs.



http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/22/1/63.full

[rurallib]

6. I wonder if they have a shit eating contest on July 4th?

[Bake]

7. I don't even know what that IS.

But it's still not as shitty as my job.

Bake

[ohiosmith]

9. Dung beetles. Dude I feel so bad for you if you have a job worse than rolling around a ball of shit.

[Bake]

10. Mine is like, neck deep and sinking in liquified poo. At least theirs is a solid ball.

Even Mike Rowe would say it's a shitty job!

:hi:

Bake

[gratuitous]

8. Hard to tell them apart

Which one's Cantor and which one's Boehner?

[smirkymonkey]

11. Boehner's the one with more shit stains all over him.

He still likes to maintain a nice "tan" color regardless of what kind of crap he's involved with.

[rrneck]

12. One bug says to the other...

"Watch that shit."

Last words of redneck bug: "Hey! Watch this shit!"

[Kaleva]

13. Long ago, a bored beetle decided to spend the day rolling a ball of shit. It quickly caught on.