<HTML>TWO percent body fat? We, what, blame the machines for the blackout? Maybe I am just feeling petulant, but that is a really unrealistic and even sexist formulation. Lance Armstrong may manage on 2% body fat, but normal men are higher than that, and normal women are higher still. So I would call the job market "insufficiently anorexic" and I could give a long list of what gets neglected, but that still would not put me in a position of hiring rather than wanting to be hired. DoreneC In a message dated 8/17/2003 12:01:13 AM GMT Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: [lbo-talk] Fwd: State of the Job Nation Date: 8/17/2003 12:01:13 AM GMT Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> Sent from the Internet [You can see someone trying hard to create a quotable quote here.] >August 15, 2003 > > >FRIDAY QUOTE > > > >State Of The Job Nation > >   "We are rapidly becoming a self-serve nation.  Technology >allows companies to replace people with machines.  They are trying >to get that two percent body fat -- no more people than absolutely >necessary to do the job." > >  Rick Cobb > >  Executive Vice President >  Challenger, Gray &Christmas, Inc. >  The International Outplacement Firm ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>