Tall People Earn More

ayahner writes "Tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives than their shorter co-workers, with each inch adding about $789 a year in pay, according to a new study. If this is true, I should make a killing! At 6'7" I tower over other developers. It's mostly a distraction, as I can see over even the highest cubes and if I stand just in the right spot, I can receive satellite transmissions. Saves on the cell phone bill. I'm going to go ask for a raise right now, if I can figure out how to work the printer..."

Comments

obvious

[kurosawdust]

Well of course we get more money! We don't have huge pots of gold to fall back on like short people do! Quit whinin'!

Re:obvious

[SYFer]

Or perhaps there are some scandals in your family that are better left unresolved.

I think you left out the most important conclusion

[Bingo Foo]

It's because tall people are better.

I wish

[latez]

I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish i had a girl with a phone I would call her!

This explains the offshore outsourcing effect

[Anonymous Coward]

That's why offshore work is going to India and China but not Africa. They're shorter so it's cheaper!

Obligitory

[Jacer]

if I can figure out how to work the printer..." PC load letter, what the FUCK does that mean?!

gee, you don't say

[Illserve]

This of course comes as a surprise to noone under the 5'5" mark.

What's funny, or perhaps expected, is that tall people are, as a rule, blissfully unaware of the advantages their height affords them. They bitch about trivialities like fitting into movie seats while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.

And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.

Re:gee, you don't say

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

This of course comes as a surprise to noone under the 5'5" mark.

What's funny, or perhaps expected, is that tall people are, as a rule, blissfully unaware of the advantages their height affords them. They bitch about trivialities like fitting into movie seats while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.

And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.

Easy there little fella. Why don't you cool down, maybe take a walk.

Could ya fetch some coffee while you're up? Us grown-ups have some serious work to do here.

So long, Karma. It's been fun
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Re:Dubious Study

[Kierthos]

Reminds me of that one Dilbert cartoon where a tall guy is hired and automatically on the executive fast track, because he's tall. He also had 'executive hair'.

PHB: "We think it will turn silver!"

Kierthos

Re:So Why Won't Doctor's Help Short People Grow?

[brakk]

Because short people couldn't afford it.

Re:Dubious Study

[Blkdeath]

How does gibberish like this get modded up as insightful? The poster has no idea what the word statistics even means.

In the general sense it means "Bending numbers to fit your conclusions."

Re:Dubious Study

[MickLinux]

Scott Adams... 80% of winners since some date were the tollar ones; the two shorter ones who had won had noticably better hair.

Wigs and stilts, wigs and stilts.

Ma, I'm agonna be PRESIDENT!

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[ReelOddeeo]

How would you like to be six inches taller and earn hundreds of thousands more dollars?

You should try our new all-natural herbal enlargement pills!

short + red hair

[Anonymous Coward]

Short (this article) + red hair ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/14/224821 8&mode=thread&tid=134 ) = not making enough money to handle the pain I'm experiencing from this news.