The Golden Ticket

Today, while at work, a bunch of my coworkers went over to the window and were looking down. By the time I got over there, I saw the last of a large group of people moving quickly in one direction across the street. Apparently, there was a huge crowd of people chasing after a car.

My friend explained: It was apparently the CEO of one of the biggest energy companies in Mexico, maybe PEMEX. Anyway, if he gives you his business card, you can take it and get a job at the company. It’s a free ticket to employment.

I don’t know if the story is true- for one, how do people know its the CEO unless he’s got an instantly recognizable face and rides around in a car marked “el Jefe Grande," which, given the lethal bomb attack at PEMEX headquarters earlier this year, doesn’t seem that likely.

Also, why don’t people just make up a card or find a photocopy or make some other kind of forgery?
There’s something about the story which resonates to me though. Mexico City is still a very mythic place. I can easily see the oligarchs playing up the Baron role, throwing favors such as a job in the royal stables to the masses of “serfs". Part of me wants the story to be true because it is so outrageous.

Or maybe it was just Beiber.