jamesglewisf
10-18-2003, 02:27 PM
Why I hate tall people. (j/k)
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/BackPage/reuters20031017_122.htmlMIAMI (Reuters) - 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.
"Height matters for career success," said Timothy Judge, a University of Florida management professor whose research will appear in the spring issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
"These findings are troubling in that, with a few exceptions such as professional basketball, no one could argue that height is an essential ability required for job performance nor a bona fide occupational qualification."The study, released Thursday, was controlled for gender, weight and age, and found that each inch in height added about $789 a year in pay.
"If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it, we're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage that a tall person enjoys," Judge said.
Greater height boosted subjective ratings of work performance, including supervisors' evaluations of how effective someone is on the job, and also raised objective measures of performance, such as sales volume, he said.Unfair. Unfair. Unfair.
I'm suing every corporation in America!!!!
BTW, I'm about 5'7" -- short by most people's standards.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/BackPage/reuters20031017_122.htmlMIAMI (Reuters) - 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.
"Height matters for career success," said Timothy Judge, a University of Florida management professor whose research will appear in the spring issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
"These findings are troubling in that, with a few exceptions such as professional basketball, no one could argue that height is an essential ability required for job performance nor a bona fide occupational qualification."The study, released Thursday, was controlled for gender, weight and age, and found that each inch in height added about $789 a year in pay.
"If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it, we're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage that a tall person enjoys," Judge said.
Greater height boosted subjective ratings of work performance, including supervisors' evaluations of how effective someone is on the job, and also raised objective measures of performance, such as sales volume, he said.Unfair. Unfair. Unfair.
I'm suing every corporation in America!!!!
BTW, I'm about 5'7" -- short by most people's standards.