Stink Test
By Mitch Berg
I saw the breathless news reports last week – about how mothers, if paid at the scale of the various jobs they hold (according to Salary.com), would/should earn $138,095 a year.
It didn’t pass the stink test for me, but I didn’t know why.
Nihilist – recovering nicely from his year as a City Pages-endorsed blogger – in his capacity as a bean-counter, does know why. “Mom”, according to the “survey”, has a bunch of jobs:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Psychologist
- Facilities Manager
- Day Care Center Teacher
- Computer Operator I
- Cook – Institution
- Laundry Machine Operator
- Van Driver
- Janitor
- Housekeeper
Nihilist starts going down the list:
Let’s start at the top. Mom as CEO. I recall the salad days of my youth, when mom orchestrated a hostile takeover of the Johnson family down the street and outsourced dad to India before jetting off to Wall Street to make a pitch to Goldman Sachs. No wait, I don’t remember that at all. Because Mom is not a CEO. Let’s strike that one.
Read the whole thing.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Its official: Lori is a blithering idiot.
In the World According to Lori/DFL, the three branches of government are the Governor, the Senate, and the House. In the REAL world, the three REAL branches of government are the Executive (Gov), Legislative (Senate/House), and the JUDICIAL.
Moron, thy name is Lori.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Mitch,
Thanks for the link. It makes me glad that I pulled the plug on my “Top 11 Reasons Mitch Berg is the Twin Cities foremost feminist” post.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Thanks for the link, Mitch. It makes me glad I pulled the post on “The top 11 reasons Mitch Berg is the Twin Cities foremost feminist.”