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Tall People Earn More

Posted by michael on from the wait-till-we-can-gengineer-tallness dept.

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..."

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  1. DA ICY HOT TODDLAHZ VOMIT ON YO, BIATCH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    YOU FAIL IT, HOMIE!

  2. Re:For now maybe.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Some day.... we short people will get the payment we deserve!

    Why not start today? Step right this way, enter the showers, you won't feel a thing, Mr Subhuman.

    Kind Regards
    1.90m of hate

    (whatever that is in retarded medieval American units)

  3. Proof by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Though it doesn't seem to be working for me, at 6'3"....

    The engineering school I went to shares a town with a medium-sized state college. An interesting statistic is that except for one year, our starting salary has always been far above theirs.

    That one year was 1979, when Larry Bird (6'9") from ISU signed a $3,250,000 contract with the Celtics.

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