It's all just relative though. If the resource is the job itself, then you have CRUD over REST for the job resource. The queue processing the job is a RESTful c

It's all just relative though. If the resource is the job itself, then you have CRUD over REST for the job resource. The queue processing the job is a RESTful consumer as well, updating the job with information about the resulting new resource. That is all RESTful. Whether or not its useful is a different question.