Am I the only one who sees this headline and has an immediate mental image of a man standing mournfully before a weighing scale, adding page after page to his letter until the pans balance?
What I find really outrageous about this whole thing is the $ 1,000 to $ 5,500 an hour the folks at Emperor Club charge. Do you know how many stupid undergraduate papers I would have to grade to make that kind of money?
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8 comments:
haha! Outrage at that kind of money was my first reaction too. I'm selling my soul for less than that. Its a disgusting world.
Ah, but you can't make the headlines for grading undergraduate papers. The print media should count for something...
Do you know how many stupid undergraduate papers I would have to grade to make that kind of money?
Depends. Would you be wearing lingerie, Falstaff?
//oh, and it's "Spitzer" :)
@ falsie, szerelem -
Which of you is a "young brunette, pretty, petite, 5- foot-5, 105 pounds (in lingerie, one assumes)"?
And yes, what a lousy headline!
S
a career change in the air, falstaff?
Szerelem: Ah, the trade-off between sex and soul. Sounds like a Yeats poem, doesn't it?
cat: You can if you get really, really disgruntled and go on a rampage afterwards.
km: No, just a frown.
S: I think I can safely say that I am neither pretty nor petite.
n: Ya, well, the way my dissertation is going I may not have a choice.
Like Lewis Black said on The Daily Show, for that money, you could buy a used Honda and f it.
looks like everyone is in the wrong business :)
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