economy

If you have to pay for a Glory Hole, I ask you: where is the glory?

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Also, the economy is like your mom — it's f***ed the entire country.

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It's one tragedy after the next. The entire Denny's menu just went up a dollar.

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Keep in mind though, since I found this opportunity for you, you owe me a finders fee: 10% of all your earnings.

Just PayPal the money to MichaelbSmooth@LYCOS.COM.

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Michael Bay has put off plans to start a small project so he can get to work on shooting Transformers 3 and saving our world.

In an interview with Starz "In the House" last week, Bay made his motivation behind starting the third film perfectly clear. "The economy's been so rough, it's kind of important. When you say yes to movie like this you automatically give 3000 people jobs. 1000 for the toys. 2000 for the filmmaking. I'm going to put [the small film] on hold and do it right after ['Transformers 3']."

We appreciate everything you're doing, Michael. And we're all looking forward to finding out your definition of the word small.

Bay then went on to describe the plot concept for Transformers 3 which will involve Shia LaBeouf's character Sam, who becomes a paraplegic in the first scene, attempting to infiltrate the Autobot race by using the embodiment of Bumblebee as an identity. Bay explained that Sam will have to choose sides between the Autobots and the military unit that promised to reward his efforts with a spinal surgery to fix his legs.

When asked if there will be any huge explosions Bay responded, "There's this massive tree of life that's very important to the Autobots. And, spoiler alert! We're gonna blow the f*cker up."

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Boy! Viral marketers just gotta calm down. Here's a little marketing ploy web app that's going viral today. At least, the company behind this one is being upfront and admitting its advertising.

The "Expense-A-Steak Headquarters" is an app that helps you falsify office expenses. You enter how much dough you need into the space and it spits back a PDF image of fake receipts that total to your requested dollar amount.

Maloney & Porcelli, the steakhouse who put this together, has this rationale: come to our steakhouse, spend lots of money on steak, put the total for the bill into our site and get reimbursed by your company for a lavish dinner. They're basically admitting that nobody in their right mind would personally pay for a $200 steak dinner. Instead, they'll be your accomplice in paying for it illegally. Good business model.

I'm just going to use it so I don't have to do those stupid expense reports in the first place. Accounting might not fall for it though. I'd have to explain why I flew to New York to buy 19 wire desk trays and 34 2-packs of whiteout.

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Can?t You See I?m Busy is a collection of web-based arcade games specially designed to entertain you without appearing to be a departure from the daily grind. There?s Breakout, the arcade game, framed as a word processor (dubbed ?Breakdown?), a spaceship game in the guise of graphs, and a third one that I didn?t even look at since I realized that you probably don?t care -? if you?re reading this blog, you?re not trying to look productive at work.

From the site:

Let?s face it; we all want to relax every now and then, but still want to appear professional or busy!

So, there's the rationale — it's just "a break." A cigarette I can understand. Getting a snack is a nice little departure. But playing a frustrating video game is not my idea of a break. It?s my idea of frustration.

Instead, the most entertaining part of the site, for me, is a counter that keeps track of how much money their site has sucked out of the economy based on the total hours of game play. As of this post, it's at ?72,739 — or about $6 billion US.

[via The Presurfer]

We're tired of boring, single-themed photo tumblr blogs that are all attempting to be the next big thing to hit the web, so we're calling them out in this week-long series called "Tumblr Weak." Check the site for a new one every day at 6p EST.

BLOG: Sad Guys on Trading Floors aka sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/

ESTABLISHED: October 2008

# OF POSTS: 444

PURPOSE: Re-post pictures of unhappy Wall Street traders that you already see every day in newspapers and online. America should get a humorous post-modern look at the recession, putting a positive spin on our economic woes.

DOES IT SERVE ITS PURPOSE?: In October, Sad Guys had a strong 237 posts. In March: 30. In August: 4. I'm no stock broker, but Sad Guys on Trading Floors is showing an ironic trend. As the recession continues, Sad Guys provides less and less laughter, thus accelerating the very frowns they sought to undo.

WEAKNESS LEVEL: On a scale of 1-10, Sad Guys gets a 6. Your Tumblr consists of ripped-off Associated Press photos — hundreds of which come out each day, and most of which meet your only criteria. If you've given up on your blog then so have we.

Find some happy people on trading floors. Then I'll be impressed. Sad Guys on Trading Floors, your Tumblr is WEAK!