I ran a software development company for a number of years in a former life. This means that I have had considerable experience with recruiting and dealing with computer programmers who are almost exclusively male and, for the most part, have the social skills of a lower order primate.

Having said this, I am now kicking myself that I did not recognise the vast improvement that I could have acheived by using higher order primates instead. (How many of us only recognise a great idea after someone else has thought of it?)

Anyway, forget farming out your software development to India, where human labour is disgustingly cheap. Skip straight to a workforce that you can exploit with none of those awkward ethical dilemmas. Yep, forget India and head straight for the primate population of Africa.

Pimate Programming Inc has chimpanzees, bonobos and orang utans ready to churn out code for a fraction of the cost of the Indian untouchables. Not surprisingly, their platform of choice is Visual Basic 6.0. Most simians I have known have been Basic programmers.

Visit Primate Programming Inc to find out more.

Those of you who feel obliged to email or comment that Orang Utans are from south east asia and not Africa please don't. Have a sit and a think for a moment, I am sure you'll work it out

(via J-Walk)