Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Portions of two job descriptions

By Dave Anderson:

Employers have all the leverage right now, and they are cranking it hard to get the best deal that they can out of workers.  I want to highlight this point with portions of two job descriptions that I came across during my routine job search.  I did not apply for either position as my skill-set does not fit other aspects of the job description.  

1)  The minimally qualified candidate for this entry-level (my emphasis) position will have the following


  • 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience

  • Progressive increases in responsibility

  • Supervisory experience

  • Graduate or terminal level degree


Job #1 had a listed salary range of $24,000 to $29,000.  It is entry level salary for mid-career people.

2)  Preferred candidate will be a masters-level nurse with medical-surgery experience, two or more years of supervisory experience, evaluation of XYZ type programs knowledge and experience.  Salary range is $38,000 to $43,000. 

The position requires significant floor and patient care responsibilities as well as everything else.  

A RN with a bachelor's degree and two years of experience makes more than $38,000  per year in Pittsburgh if they are working on a medical-surgical floor at a hospital.

Employers are shooting the moon in their job descriptions as they figure they can find someone desperate right now, and that is a reasonable bet that they are making.      



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