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Tippi Hedren
10/09/09

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But you CAN still have a flat belly. Just skip that extra creamy dressing on your salads!
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telecomic the thoughtful red panda
10/09/09

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The economy sucks no matter if you have boy bits or lady bits.

Having said that, my male friends have been getting crushed in the job market. I'm making 10k less than I did last year for the same work, and I'm one of the lucky ones. A couple of guys are 12 to 18 months between jobs, and with few nibbles. My female friends have, for the most part, done OK, with few layoffs or downward mobility.
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ronniedobbs
10/09/09

@telecomic the thoughtful red panda: Perhaps that's a function of men getting paid more for the same work. This is just a (somewhat educated) guess, but if their salary history/requirements are higher than the women they're competing with for jobs, then they're going to lose out to the "cheaper" candidates. Their higher pay probably also contributed to their getting laid off, in terms of cost-cutting.
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telecomic the thoughtful red panda
10/09/09

@ronniedobbs: I thought about that, and that seems like it might work. I think the classic male ego has something to do with it. "I was getting paid 90k at my last job, why would I look at this 75k job?" A few months later, you talk yourself into a 75k gig, and that's not available anymore, but there's no way you could take a 60k, right?

Sadly, I suffered from this back after the dot-com collapse. I figured that because Flybynighttelecom.com thought I was worth 90k, that Comcast's offer of 55k plus bonuses was insulting. I turned that down. Nine months later, I was working at Chili's for 2.35 an hour plus tips, kicking myself hourly for not taking the Comcast gig.
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ronniedobbs
10/09/09

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There is not enough alcohol in the world to make me OK with the proliferation of these cutesy and senseless recession-related neologisms.
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Lolita Hazed
10/09/09

@ronniedobbs: MAXXINISTA
KILL ME
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