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You can't make this shit up. And by "this shit," we mean the recruiting tactics of Life & Style magazine — you know, that one celebrity weekly you use to line the litter box.

It's come to our attention that the ambitious L&S HR folks are going down the Us Weekly masthead, cold calling staffers and offering them jobs. With the exception of Ingela Ratledge (we think?), all have demurred, citing reasons as varied as contentment with their current job (heh) to simply not wanting to commute to the L&S offices across the Hudson. The commute excuse, it would seem, lays the groundwork for the L&S HR to drop their final selling point, which goes roughly like this: We ll pay you so much, you can buy a car.

TEMPTING! But really, a shiny new Kia isn t going to make Jersey — or Life & Style, for that matter — any more palatable.