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[Futurama]Why did the Professor hire Bender?

Fry had his delivery boy career chip, so that made him a natural. But why hire a defective bending robot to work on an intergalactic delivery company? Is it simply his durability? Is he a diversity hire? Or just the Professor being the Professor?
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To bend things.

But it's more likely Hermes made the hiring decision. Remember, he's Inspector #5, and he's the one who overrode Bender's "defective" designation in the first place. He probably felt some responsibility for Bender and gave him a job out of pity, and the Professor was too out of it to notice.