One of my only complaints

Is it just me?

Or is this just wrong?

• …So he took one of the only government jobs he could find: confiscating agricultural goods for the king … even though he was probably one of the only honest employees working for the government at the time.

Dictionary.com tells me that only means “without others or anything further; alone; solely; exclusively.”

So how can you be one of the only?

• I think he took one of the few jobs he could find; he was one of the few honest employees.

Maybe I’m one of the only people who doesn’t have a government job?