Take a look at this notice for a photo shoot - they're looking for a black man between 55 and 90 with thinning gray hair, "mobile enough to lay on the ground comfortably
in a fallen position during shoot" - and overweight black men and women between 60 and 80. Pay is $1,000 a day for a 10-hour day.

Via Chanie.

Blue Mass. Group has the details.

A company in downtown Boston is looking for somebody experienced in content management systems. Sure, yawn if you must, but look at what they're doing:

Book of Odds Enterprises, Inc. is a start-up company creating a unique database of statistical information that will serve as a base for a dedicated website. The work is groundbreaking in its conception and will create a new fundamental reference work. Fifty man-years of research, done to academic standards but translated into easily understood terms, has produced over 500,000 Odds Statements about the details of daily life and a remarkable semantic database.

Is there a school for it somewhere? Because somebody making a commercial is looking for adults with experience in mascot costumes.

Experience in mascot costumes? The post doesn't specify, but presumably that means experience with a) walking forward with limited vision, b) Not fainting in the heat and c) Not pummeling annoying children who come up to you.

Via Steve Garfield.

Rhea Becker reports on a cocktail hour last night for people in the media:

...[E]veryone wore a name tag that gave their job title. My day job is "editor." I can't tell you how many people - of all ages - came up to me with tags that read "Freelance writer" and asked if I had work. ...

A federal appeals court this week reinstated a lawsuit by a former worker at a Raytheon plant in Waltham who argues that companies that supplied the beryllium products she spent eight years sanding and cleaning are responsible for her lung problems and Parkinson's Disease and should pay for her medical care.

Meredith reports signs of him still abound in the office and in work conversations, but she notes that not a single person mentioned his job at his funeral, which she appreciates:

... When I go, I hope not one person makes mention of my job as a way of summarizing my life. Talk of my love for the written word, for hiking mountains, for XC skiing, for my family and my husband, but dare you not mention a word about software documentation.

They want a patsy to blame everything on, J. Timothy King explains.

We're hearing they're eliminating 31 positions - 8 through attrition and the rest through layoffs, in part because workers in Manila are much cheaper to hire.

Howie Carr thinks those little-known state and county holidays were created by hacks for their own enrichment. Apparently Howie thinks these holidays are on the books purely to enable all those Boston teachers, court clerks and sanitation workers to sail their 35-foot boats on the taxpayers' dime. Nothing could be farther from the truth.