Fun with headlines
August 3rd, 2007
In the media and not to be missed this week:
New research shows that not only are men are better negotiators than women, but women who negotiate higher salaries are viewed negatively by both men and women. Ugh. How this translates: “If a 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman are offered $25,000 for their first job, for example, and one of them negotiates the amount up to $30,000, then over the next 28 years, the negotiator would make $361,171 more, assuming they both got 3 percent raises each year.” (Washington Post)
The average employee wastes two hours a day on personal pursuits, aka IM, cell phone, and the web. This study comes out every year, but it never gets old. Plus, this year’s finding have a special new twist: Twentysomethings are the biggest slackers of all. (Inc.com)
And from the recent archives:
NEC Corp. rolled out a pink, crystal-encrusted Hello Kitty laptop for “working women.” Bwahaahaaaaaaaaa! (Associated Press, via MSNBC)
A survey that came out around Mother’s Day found that “20% of women and 25% of men say, ‘I am often left picking up the slack for my co-workers who are moms.’” Many respondents were fathers. Way to go, guys. (USA Today)
Trade school is the new graduate school. If you read the last chapter of my book, you know I’m a champion of this POV. After all, how else is a philosophy grad going to pay the bills? (Minneapolis Star Tribune, via Seattle Times)
Marlys Harris, senior editor of Money Magazine, advises women to marry rich. I shit you not. (MSNBC)
Entry Filed under: Coffee break, Money honey, Overworked and underpaid
7 Comments Add your own
1. Lauren | August 3rd, 2007 at 10:57 am
Although I find all of the headlines pretty laughable, I had to pause over the hello kitty pink laptop for “working women.” When will they make the spiderman version for business men?
It’s so ridiculous… like we don’t have enough working against us in the workplace that we need to separate ourselves further with pink hello kitty bling on our laptops. Un. be. lievable.
2. Michelle Goodman | August 3rd, 2007 at 11:01 am
i once bought a friend a hello kitty vibrator as a joke. sanrio knows no bounds!
3. Anne Z. | August 5th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Great links, thanks! Though the negotiation one is kind of depressiong.
4. Judy | August 6th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I know I should be appalled, but the Hello Kitty computer cracked me up. I also boughtthe Hello Kitty vibrator for friends–they quit making them now!
5. Michelle Goodman | August 6th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Eh, should be, schmould be. I thought it was kinda funny too. I want to meet anyone who buys it!
6. Terry | August 11th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Childfree women who complain about picking up the slack for childful women are fools. It’s only a matter of time before the many of the childfree join the ranks of the childful and take on all the problems that go with it (imagine having lunch with a client when your kindergartner’s school nurse calls to say the kid threw up all over herself during mat time, and you need to scurry over and pick her up).
And men who complain about women with children are jackasses. They’re making about 28 cents more than the average women, so they can go scratch. I’m sure their wives complain about having to pick up the slack for them at home, too.
Love your book, by the way.
7. Michelle Goodman | August 14th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
thanks, terry. “childful” cracked me up. GREAT word.
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