The A's need you help, folks. They are currently seeking a part-time, seasonal Stomper. The Oakland Athletics' mascot is responsible for but not limited to the following: Performing at all A’s Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday home games and at a select number of other games during the 2009 seasonPerforming at private parties, parades, festivals, grand openings, etc. on specified days during the week and on weekends throughout the yearPerforming at off-site community appearancesCreating......

Employees were offered sweet buyout dealsa at the Chronicle today. The number we're hearing right now is that around 125 (as SF Weekly reports) jobs need to be pruned. Our sources tell us that the reduction will include many employees, though "not a lot [are] expected to be cut from newsroom." The Weekly goes on to report that this round snips will be yet another buyout situation: The buyouts, which will effect all departments......

Speaking of our fine mayor, Newsom's recently released budget plan, it seems, will "terminate critical health and human services, while pumping up salaries for police by 25% and adding many new high paid patronage positions into his own administration," at least according to the folks over at something called the People's Budget Collaborative, brought to you by the loopy kids at the Coalition on Homelessness. They claim the following cuts will happen. Ahem: 1)......

While he wouldn't say whether or not Cynthia Thompson will receive a much deserved ax, today Mayor Gavin Newsom did announce that he will hack away at some 1,000 city jobs as well as "limiting overtime costs and raising some city fees." Overall, 450 workers stand to lose their jobs. (And thus 450 sandwich artists are born.) Newsom unveiled his shiny new 2008-2009 budget proposal over at the Hunters Point Shipyard this morning. During......

(By Eyleen Tavy) Don't ask us what we were doing reading the Wall Street Journal this morning (aside: have you ever looked at Kevin Sprouls', the guy who does the Journal's portraits, other work? Love it!), but when we read this article on how those damned Bulgarians are stealing American web ad production jobs our blood started to boil. Until recently, Web ads were produced mostly by creative types in downtown lofts in places......

In more pink slip sadness today, San Jose Mercury News (owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group) eliminated 50 jobs. Fifteen newsroom employees and 19 employees from "other parts of the paper" were let go today. Citing a loss of advertising revenue because to the evil Internet, this most recent workforce slashing represents "a cut of about 5 percent" of the over Merc staff. On the flip side, two editors received promotions: Barbara J. Marshman, associate......

There's been so many murders lately that it's hard to find a new twist on the stories, so here's one: a Pizza Hut pizza delivery man was shot and killed in the Richmond last night as he was trying to deliver a pizza. Apparently, he got lost and was wandering around trying to find the house he was supposed to deliver the pizza too and when he was stopped by several men trying to rob him. When he tried to run away, he was shot in the back, something that anyone who has ever seen a Western knows is the coward's way. ...

A loyal fan of the child-rearing arts -- she had taken nanny jobs at least twice before, even a job in Turkey, after answering online ads in the past; and even recently played Maria in her church community theater's production of The Sound of Music -- Katherine Ann Olson, 24, answered a Craigslist ad posted last week, looking for a nanny. The CL ad ultimately would lead to her death. Last Thursday, in Savage, Minnesota,......

Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week Peskin introduced a wee bit of legislation that would obliterated said department. Yoinks....

Oh sure, you scoffed. But the joke's on you, scoffy! A majority of commenters on an earlier post were of the opinion that the cautionary "Muni Stories" posters on the buses could not possibly be true, and must be the work of an ambitious hoaxer. There was disbelief that Muni would put up signs about, for example, a crazy man seizing control of the gas pedal -- the take-away being that a ride on......

Sadly, no open meat-pie maker positions just yet. But until then, check out the following non-cannibalistic gigs such as: -- Start-Up Looking for Talented Engineers [Discovery Engine] -- Creative Director [DHAP Digital] -- Interactive Art Director [Real Branding, LLC] -- Linux/Unix System Administrator [Peanut Labs] -- Rails Web Developer [Bleacher Report] To find more jobs, visit our constantly updated job board.......

Why, there's nothing sexier than a tech-related or tech-adjacent job: -- Graphic Designer [LoopNet, Inc.] -- Account Supervisor - Search Engine Marketing [OMD] -- Investment Analyst [Prudential Financial] -- Sr. Business Systems Analyst [Administrative Office of the Courts] -- Product Manager - Online Advertising and Marketing [Mediaplex] And for many, many more available positions, check out our job board.......

Newsflash! It costs a lot of money to live here in the Bay Area -- 40% above the national average. Fortunately, salaries are generally higher here to cover at least some of the cost. The U.S. Dept. of Commerce issued a report showing that the SF-Oakland area ranks number 2 in income per person for 2005 ($52.543/year, as opposed to the national average of $34.471), behind only Connecticut, which is where hedge fund people......

And so, with today being the last home game of the season, this will be the last chance for Barry and his fans to bask in each other's adulations. But over here at SFist HQ (located in some South of Market sweat shop conveniently located close enough to Tres Agave to be easily be bribed with margaritas by Brock whenever he wants us to post), there will be no adulation from us. We will be giving no tribute. ...

Looks like Gavin's already started recruiting! After his housecleaning began last week, we were waiting with bated breath for the job ads to start appearing. But foregoing the mighty Craigslist for our lil' SFist job board? It's going to be hard to replace the head of the strife-ridden Housing Authority - if he's only offering equity, he should probably be looking anywhere he can!......

He has a nifty tech job. Do you? No? Well, then: -- Web Developer [Apex Systems, Inc.] -- Internet Coordinator [Williams-Sonoma Inc.] -- Java Developer [TEKsystems] -- Flash Designer [Syndero] - Lead UI Developer: CSS, XHTML, AJAX, JS, 3D,UI [Terran Systems] For more jobs, do visit our job board.......

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and......

We duped ourselves into thinking iPhones weren't the work of God. But they are. And we want one. Bad. Real bad. Last week, we had the privilege of hanging with a few adorable, young lads, all on the cusp of innovative technology. And they all sported iPhones, thus an at-one-with-the-world glaze in their eyes. We have a stupid BlackBerry, so: constipation, tears. Steve Jobs -- who still boasts a decent shelf butt (see image)......

Pad those resumes, folks, because these large, North Face-wearing, faceless corporations want your souls: -- Front End Lead [Cake Financial] -- Senior Graphic Designer, Web [Fox] -- VP Sales & Marketing [Fuzzi Bunz] -- Programmer for Web Games [Kongregate] -- Software Engineer [Wikispaces] ...and for more -- many, many more! -- visit our job board here.......

Check out our job board here for such sparkling, shiny, and stellar job opportunities as:: -- Volunteer/Intern (And maybe a mole for SFist? Just kidding. Sort of.): [Office of Supervisor Jake McGoldrick] -- Interactive Producer [Clear Ink] -- Experienced Web Hacker [Zivity] -- Creative Development - Marketing [Wells Fargo] -- Experienced PHP/MySQL Developer [Federated Media Publishing, Inc.]......

Much of the decimation of newspapers' revenues from classified ads has been attributed to the proliferation of craigslist, which, to our experience, is a generally cheaper, easier, and more effective place to list open jobs and such. Today we were tooling around digg and we noticed a link to open jobs at San Francisco-based eBay subsidiary StumbleUpon. Huh?...

Time to stop fretting over whether he is or is not the father. Time to get a job. How about: -- Backend Software Engineer - Digital Music Store [A2Z Development] -- Executive Director, Super Stars Literacy [Junior League of Oakland-East Bay] -- Office Manager [Green Home] -- Marketing Intern [SustainLane] -- Kick-Ass Coders (We assume that that's not going to be your actual title.) [Socializr, Inc.] -- Account Manager, Outreach [Act Now Productions] ...for......

This week's installment: Bus comfort, back door hard-ons, and -- surprise! -- no official MUNI policy. When do you decide to make an effort to try and affect things on the bus (telling people to move back or making a fuss if people try and enter through the back door). And if you don't do one of those things, why not? This sort of thing lives in the Land of Personal Preference; there's no......

-- 756. [SFist for links] -- Bonds' ball chasers. [Chron, The Snitch] -- Steve Jobs' pretty new iMacs and more. [eWEEK, Chron] -- Schwarzenegger forces the fuzz to patrol more Oakland streets. [Chron] -- Lights Out wants to dim SF's lights for an hour to neck, or write poetry with a plume pen, or...something. [Examiner] -- Half Moon Bay soccer team busted for "looking for love in all the wrong places." [CBS 5] Image:......

For your amusement, each week's Get A Job will now feature a job-related image. Also, someone please buy us this cheeseburger. Now. Time for your weekly nag to get a new job/selfishly direct site traffic to our job board. Really, it's a win-win. And some of our exciting new career opportunities -- please excuse our DeVry-commercial tone -- are as follows: -- Associate Director/Tutor [Sage Educators] -- Director of Acquisition Marketing [Taproot] -- Photo......

The Denver Biz Times is reporting that Denver-based MediaNews Group -- the owner of the Alameda Newspaper Group (which includes the Oakland Tribune) and the Contra Costa Times, will be reducing staff in its NoCal operations....

You're not alone. We also want to know who's going to be the next new co-host on The View (it consumes us), but really, it's time to start thinking about more important things, like getting a job. How about: - Corporate Web Marketing Analyst [Dolby Labs] - Senior Online Marketing Manager/Director [Confidential] - Director of Communications [The Vote Solar Initiative] - Database Architect [Adify] - Marketing Manager Online Advertising [CyberCoders] For more jobs, visit our......

Like the good, nagging, smothering mother that we are, it's time for us to delicately remind some of you to get a job, or switch to a new one. Take, for example: - Clarity Administrator (Sounds life coach-y, job title-wise, but we promise you that it's not.) [Zenex Partners] - Video Software Engineer [NVIDIA] - Geotechnical Engineer [Cinci Engineering] - Controller [Iconma] - Business Analyst [TEKsystems] …and loads more can be found here.......

Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled at the hair-pulling about this reality by many in SF; liberal/progressive and yuppie lifestyles are not mutually exclusive. Not by the longest shot.) Forbes based their survey on factors such as “tracking where graduates from top universities relocated to after colleges…locations of the......

We know that if you see one more DeVry commercial, you're going to take a loaded rife up to the nearest tower. And Judge Hatchett can shame only so many DNA-fibbing baby mamas or baby daddies before it gets emotionally exhausting. And, really, there's nothing wrong with regular bathing and the joy that is known as Ban Roll-on. So, make a change and check out our loaded job board, where you can find such......