Wednesday, November 12, 2003

The 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S.

Another gem...check them all out

7) Airport skycaps

Many of the uniformed baggage handlers who check in luggage at curbside pull in more than $100,000 a year -- most of it in cash.

On top of their $30,000 to $40,000 salaries, peak earners take in $300 or more a day in tips. Sound implausible? That amounts to a $2 tip from 18 travelers an hour on average. Many tip more than that.

While most skycaps are cordial, a good many treat customers with blank indifference, knowing harried travelers don't want to brave counter check-ins, especially in the post 9/11 age. Their work is more mindless than that of a McDonald's counter clerk, who at least has to bag the order correctly.
The Onion | Mom Finds Out About Blog

Hysterical...

"God, my links alone contain unlimited fodder for Mom's neuroses," Widmar said. "She'll have access to not only my life, but the lives of all my friends who have web sites. She'll have the names of all the places in Minneapolis where we hang out, which she can—and will—look up. With the raw materials in my blog, she could actually construct an accurate picture of who I am. This is f--king serious."

Sunday, November 09, 2003

ESPN.com - NCF - Miami's Winslow apologizes for outburst


"'It's war,' Winslow said Saturday, his voice raised in the locker room. 'They're out there to kill you, so I'm out there to kill them. We don't care about anybody but this U. They're going after my legs. I'm going to come right back at them. I'm a ... soldier.'"

Best Post-Game Interview I've seen in sometime. Was that Winslow or Vin Diesel?