生活英语|Hot Waitress Economic Index 漂亮员工经济指数

Hot Waitress Economic Index is an index that indicates the state of the economy by measuring the number of attractive people working as waiters/waitresses. According to the hot waitress index, the higher the number of good looking servers, the weaker the current state of the economy. It is assumed that attractive inpiduals do not tend to have trouble finding high-paying jobs during good economic times. During poor economic times, these jobs will be more difficult to find and therefore more attractive people will be forced to work in lower paying jobs such as being waiters/waitresses.

漂亮员工经济指数（Hot Waitress Economic Index）指通过计算长相出众的人从事员工职业的人数来预测经济形势的指数。该指数显示，从事员工职业的漂亮人士越多，目前的经济形势越差。由于一般都觉得长相出众的人在经济形势好的时候，想找份高薪的工作并不困难。在经济形势不太好的时候，高薪工作难找，那些面貌出众的人也不能不从事员工如此的低薪职业。

Traditional economic theory contends that employment tends to be a lagging indicator^{1 for economic recovery. However, the hot waitress economic index could be a coincident or even a leading indicator for economic recovery because attractive people may be the first group of inpiduals to find better paying jobs when a bad economy begins to turn around.}

传统的经济理论觉得，就业在预测经济时是一个相对滞后的指数。不过，漂亮员工经济指数却是一个巧合或者甚至可以作为一个预测经济复苏的先行指数，由于漂亮人士可能是经济开始好转时第一批能找到较高收入工作的人群。