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more about #jobs more comments → raincoaster: I'm going to use this as an excuse for all career fallow periods from now on. "I was too important for Google to hire." more » Pope John Peeps II: Wandering the halls of Google one day, I came across a load of bullshit. "Hey, I said. I know a whole lot of other loads of bullshit that I'd like to... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: In the new economy we're all superstars. more » HenryLovesFonzie: "It's not that I don't love you, it's just that you're such a good guy you need to get out there and share yourself with other women. It'll be better... more » BadUncle: This just makes me want to snuggle up to my Google pillow and dream Googley dreams of Googleness. more » Seeräuber Jenny: We'd love to hire you, but you're just too damned ... GOOD. (Although it's easy to propound in a total buyer's market, the theory does make some sen... more » Thatcornellguy: So...according to Google, you can sustain yourself and pay for things with your awesomeness alone? You don't need a job or a paycheck for that? more » AzureTexan: That's the logic God will use when he rejects my entry to Heaven. Right? more » Lysergic Asset: I heard they stole that tactic from Gawker Media. more » Claire Buoyant: I'll be sure to put "I'm too good for Google" on my resume right away. more » -
#printisdead
Nearly 90,000 Print Jobs Have Been Lost in the Last Year
The good news: Unemployment dropped slightly last month, to 10%. The bad news: 4,200 print publishing workers were laid off just in November and 86,800 have lost their jobs in the past 12 months. More » -
#philanthropy
Google Rejects Awesome People So It Doesn't Hog All of Them
How selflessly cool is Google? Every now and then the company removes from consideration one of its superhuman job candidates, to avoid an over-concentration of brilliance. Google, you see, doesn't want to become a black hole of awesome. More » -
#recessionomics
I Have a Dream That One Day Blacks And Whites Will Die Together in Poverty
The Way We Live Now: Passing strange. It's the only way to get a two decent poverty-level jobs, which you need to stay underemployed. We're still waiting to realize Martin's dream of a day when everyone is equally broke. More » -
#reportersinperil
How to Get In and Out of Journalism Alive
There are two ways to "get into" journalism. One: Go to journalism school and rise through the ranks of the establishment. This is dumb. The other way: Fly off to a war zone and start reportin'! This is also dumb. More » -
#jobsinhell
Survivor: Local Cincinnati PR Firm
Are you willing to do absolutely anything and go through three weeks of "PR Hell" to land a basement-level gig at a PR firm in god damn Cincinnati? Sure, because you have no other choice, economically! PR: Classy, always. [Adfreak] -
#blinditems
Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
Blind items! They happen. Especially in Craigslist's depths, where inanity prevails in the form of, among other ways you never wanted to consider possible, job listings. So we want to know: which "highly visable" former Obama roommate needs an assistant? More » -
#mediacrack
Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
In your foreboding Thursday media column: Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy's story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine's media gig disappears. More » -
#layoffs
The AP Layoffs, From Bismarck to Beijing
We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below. More » -
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#exits
What's So Unbearable about Working at Google New York?
Despite its celebrity chefs and razor scooters, Google's New York office houses a surprisingly disgruntled workforce, judging from one informal survey: of 14 Gotham Googlers profiled by Business Insider, more than a third are said to be eyeing an exit. More » -
#media
Another New York Observer Editor Leaving
New York Observer executive editor Josh Benson is leaving the paper at the end of the year along with departing top editor Tom McGeveran. Benson tells Michael Calderone he's joining McGeveran in his non-Jared Kushner-affiliated future project. [Politico] -
#talkingheads
BizWeek Geeks Tell Chic Money Honey, 'You're Done-y'
Bloomberg, the new owner of Businessweek, is dumping Maria "Contractually Obligated to be called 'Money Honey'" Bartiromo from her gig as a BW columnist, Business Insider reports. That's not the worst decision in the world. More » -
#exits
Lou Dobbs To Become Emigrant Refugee from CNN
Lou Dobbs will announce tonight that he's leaving CNN, sources tell the New York Times. The professional xenophobe's contract isn't up until 2011, but Dobbs reportedly met with Fox News chief Roger Ailes last month. Update: It's official. Video below. More » -
#communism
Quit Laughing: The Hippie Industry Is Booming
Everyone seems to think it's funny that UC Santa Cruz has a job opening for an official "Grateful Dead Archivist." But it's just the latest example of hippies riding high during the recession, floating on a cloud of groovy breaks. More » -
#jobs
The Future of Journalism's in a Politician's Pet Newsroom
The recent blows to print journalism are great news for politicians: They can afford to own news outlets again, just like in the colonial era! Even local politicians can afford their own newsrooms. More » -
#kidstoday
Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job. More »
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#newspaperwars
Wall Street Journal Takes on Local News
The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More » -
#jobs
Google's Broken Hiring Process
Google strives to hire "the world's best engineers,"and has crafted an "interminable" interview process dotted with puzzles and brainteasers to do so. One little problem: the process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees. More » -
#theeconomy
Congratulations, America: You Propped Up the Economy by Spending the Money You're Not Making
The gross domestic product jumped 3.5% last quarter—the first increase in more than a year—sparking a stock rally and talk of the end of the Great Recession. No, no one has any jobs yet, but stop complaining! More » -
#recessionomics
Ride the Great American Satan Train to the Land of Prosperity
The Way We Live Now: Sulking about moodily. Night school is kicking our ass. We can't pay the train fare to work. And what's the point, even? There's no hope for employment. Unless you star in a music video. More » -
#newspapers
The New York Times' Big Old Newsroom
John Koblin got his hands on the New York Times' employee buyout offers—which handily include a breakdown of the numbers of employees in every one of the paper's departments. Behold something massive beyond reason! More » -
#recessionomics
Yes You Were Tortured and Forced Into Prostitution, But at Least You Don't Have to Go to Work
The Way We Live Now: To the extreme. We will sell ourselves for food. We will torture someone over loan modifications. We will make an entire nation too broke to afford McDonald's. What a seductive lifestyle! More » -
#creativeunderclass
Class Only Works for Teacher
"Find A Mag Job When The Economy is Crap." How? Start teaching a class called "Find A Mag Job When The Economy is Crap," like Ed2010 founder Chandra Czape Turner. Cost of class: $150. Actual value of class: $0. -
#mediacrack
More Layoffs Coming at Forbes?
In your foreboding Friday media column: Rumors of impending Forbes layoffs, more details on the Conde Nast Traveler cuts this week, an editor quits over her commute(!), and a former AP newsman kills himself. More » -
#openmicnights
Want to Audition for a Gawker Night Editor Job?
We received so many responses to last week's night editors job listing that, to be honest, we need some help separating the interesting from the interested. So, we're starting an audition thread for anyone who'd like one of the jobs. More » -
#recessionomics
The System Will See You Now
The Way We Live Now: Doing everything we can to get your unemployed ass back on your feet. Don't blame "The System" if you can't find a job. "The System" is ready tore-assimilate you into The Matrixhelp you! More » -
#jobs
Bloomberg-ing of BusinessWeek Begins: Editor Out
Steve Adler resigned as editor in chief of BusinessWeek, the New York Post's Keith Kelly reports, effective as soon as Bloomberg LP completed its expected takeover of the McGraw-Hill magazine. This was to be expected. More » -
#layoffs
A Day of Reckoning at Conde Nast
We hear Wired had its own round of editorial layoffs today. What's going on at Conde Nast? A very bad Monday. In a very bad month. Let's review:
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#jobs
Gawker Is Seeking Night Owls
Do you stay up all night? Or maybe live in a timezone where you're up when it's the middle of the night in NYC? Oh good, because Gawker has some overnight positions open. Details after the jump. More » -
#mediacrack
Flacks Love This Businessweek Deal
In your overstuffed Wednesday media column: a PR man cheers Bloomberg's latest purchase, Calvin Trillin says crotchety things, the New Yorker hires(!) somebody, Brides loses advertisers, and the Washington Post poaches from HuffPo, for a change. More » -
#kariferrell
Hipster Grifter Sentenced, to Jail
The long, criminally hipster tale of Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell has finally reached the portion of "Phase Three: Justice" where she receives her dramatic jail sentence.
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#thepoors
Mediabistro Employee Learns to Live in Poverty
Amanda Ernst, the new editor of Mediabistro's Fishbowl NY, was on the Today Show this morning! Topic: How to deal with her crushing poverty as she tries to survive on a paltry Mediabistro wage.
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#jobsinhell
Edit Now. Pay
Buck up, underemployed aspiring media employees who are not celebuspawn: We've found you yet another opportunity for indentured servitude masquerading as a "media job." How'd you like to be a real live Editor in Chief, eh? More »LaterNever. -
#jobs
Become Record Label To Rappers Who Hate Record Labels
Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy. More » -
#recessionomics
We Must Not Allow Our Businesspersons to Taste Hippie Freedom
The Way We Live Now: Beneath our proper stations. Respectable PR men and attorneys are now voluntarily doing so-called "other" jobs, like common hippie layabouts. The actual hippie layabouts are complaining because they lost their second jobs, to attorneys. More » -
#jobs
How To Get Fired For Twittering: Waiter Edition
Jon-Barrett Ingels was fired as a waiter thanks in large part to Jane Adams. The co-star of HBO's Hung couldn't pay her check, then failed to tip when she did. The waiter complained on Twitter; Smith complained to his boss. More » -
#recessionomics
What Do You Mean By 'Job?'
The Way We Live Now: Jobbing differently. Gone is the stuffy old paradigm where we "get up and go to work" and "clock in at a certain time" and "act professional." In its place: all types of crazy shit. More » -
#moneymatters
Don't Worry, Ad People Still Make Astronomic Salaries
If this recession has you down, take heart in the fact that "chief creative officers" at America's biggest ad agencies are still able to charge people almost a thousand bucks an hour. More » -
#jobs
Bonnie Fuller Hires First Victim
Bonnie Fuller just hired TMZ's New York bureau chief, Will Lee, as executive editor of her soon-to-be relaunched HollywoodLife.com. Fuller is known for taking underlings' underwear and making them wash breast pumps. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lee tonight. -
#recessionomics
The Government Funnels Your Tax Dollars to Things That Kill You (So Wake Up)
The Way We Live Now: Underminingly. Have we forgotten the principles of Chaos Theory that we learned in that Jurassic Park sequel? All these "cutbacks" to "save money" will "destroy us." Is the bright side really a dangerous money fire? More » -
#jobs
Arianna's Knight in Khaki Armor
We always found it strange the Huffington Post was unprofitable, what with the Web juggernaut's traffic growth, editorial accomplishments and army of unpaid writers. It turns out HuffPo's investors thought that was weird too. Time for a new ad man. More »
