By Drew Grant 11/13/12 3:52pm

Craigslist

A last in a lifetime experience! (Touchstone Pictures)

Worst of Craigslist: Want to Pour Drinks at a ‘Coyotee Ugly Type Bar’?

Ladies, we know how hard it is to get work out there these days. All the secretary pools are overstocked, and now that the war is over, the men have taken back all the canning jobs at the factories. Sometimes it’s enough to make you want to start an all female baseball team, which a gruff Tom Hanks could manage and tell you when it is and is not an appropriate time to cry.

But, women, we implore you: No matter how desperate you are, don’t go taking every two-bit dancing/bartending job listed on Craigslist. No matter how enticing the advertisement may look,  it’s always a good rule of thumb that if someone can’t be bothered to Google the spelling of their favorite movie of all time, they will not be able to pay you in anything other than sweaty dollar bills stuffed into your thong. Read More

By Robert Sammons 11/29/11 2:30pm

Stat of the Week

Job Decline - November 2011

Twenty-One Thousand Two Hundred

Office jobs in New York City, defined as jobs in the professional and business services, financial activities, and information industries, have increased by 21,200 through October of this year.

That’s the good news. Read More

By Robert Knakal 10/18/11 10:05am

concrete thoughts

Blitt - Bob Knakal

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: The American Jobs Act, Keynesian Economics, Occupy Wall Street and More

Recently, there has been tremendous coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests. It is obvious that this is not a political movement but merely a way for some disgruntled Americans to express their frustrations. It is unfocused and really has no coherent agenda. Ask 50 demonstrators why they are there and what they hope to achieve and you get 50 different answers. Read More

By The Editors 7/19/11 7:32pm

opinion

Albany Sets An Example

The leaders of another public employee union in New York have chosen sanity over mindless confrontation. Negotiators for the Public Employees Federation, the state’s second-largest union, recently agreed to a new five-year deal that will save taxpayers $400 million in wage and benefit reforms over the life of the contract. The deal comes on the Read More

By Lilit Marcus 5/26/11 3:00pm

Employment

Will Tweet for Work! How Not to Become a Personal Assistant

If you search for the term “personal assistant” on Twitter, you usually find one of three things: people complaining about how busy they are and wishing they had an assistant, people complaining about being unemployed and saying they’d love to get a job as a personal assistant,  and people tweeting at celebrities, offering to work Read More

By Azi Paybarah 4/11/11 5:12pm

jobs

Hiring: A State Senator Needs a Scheduler

From the Jobs That Are Left listserv:

SCHEDULER/OFFICE MANAGER: State Senate Democrat seeking a Scheduler and Office Manager. This is a critical position in the district office and is NOT a glorified executive assistant position. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: handling all scheduling requests, working with staff to build a strategic Read More