The ongoing evolution of the American suburbs into slums will not be denied. Malls are dying. Now, the classic suburban office park is dying too.

You totally think your job sucks, right? Well, you only have it really bad if you're employed in one of these 10 fields, since these are the jobs most likely to have caused a major depression in the last year.

Flowery New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr is stepping down from that job to become the "curator of olfactory art" at the Museum of Arts and Design. Is this the end of an era of scent-based pretension?

Frank Foer—brother of Jonathan Safran—is stepping down as editor of The New Republic, though he'll still write for the mag. Richard Just is the new editor. We suspect that maybe, just maybe, working for Marty Peretz is unpleasant.

When David Westin resigned as head of ABC News last September, we never would have guessed that a legendarily overprivileged writer of novels that would become Zac Efron films would be his replacement. Shows how much we know.

Barry Diller—a man who seemed positioned to reign opulently over his IAC media empire for years to come—announced this morning that he's stepping down as CEO of IAC.

Eager for work in the financial industry, an MBA student fired off a PowerPoint presentation entitled "9 Reasons Why You SHOULD Hire Me As Your Investment Banking Analyst." And, because, "Passion Is Business," she reportedly landed several interviews.

The Way We Live Now: stealing everything in sight. Out of necessity, mind you. We're not some common criminals. Common criminals can't get jobs at all. We're uncommon criminals, avenging economics itself, with bold, technically criminal action!

The saga of Randy Wigginton is long and lively. He was employee number six at Apple. A distinguished engineer at PayPal and eBay. And now word out of Google is that he's been fired there for leaking a raise.

National unemployment remains stuck at nearly 10 percent and economic growth is tepid. But there are still golden tickets for workers if they're inside the tech bubble, especially if they're Google engineers courted by Facebook. And especially if they're women.

Today's minimum wage, $7.25 per hour, adjusted for inflation is lower than it was in 1968.

Two more recruits to The Daily News Corp's iPad news project: Hunter Walker (formerly of The Wrap) to the gossip beat; and, we hear, former sextacular NY Post-ie and current UrbanDaddy editor Justin Rocket Silverman. Woo.

Moderately good news, unemployed college graduates! A new report on hiring trends says that hiring of graduates with bachelor's degrees or MBAs will surge by 10% next year. Green shoots! As long as you didn't go to law school.

Monty Cook, a former Baltimore Sun editor, has resigned from his position at the University of North Carolina's journalism school after a mini-scandal over his sexy instant messages with a female student. Remarkably, this wasn't his first sexy G-chat incident.

In your paradigm-shifting Tuesday media column: Sasha Frere-Jones decamps, Keith Olbermann declaims, Brides magazine double-entendres, and the NYT deconstructs.

The Facebook-Google showdown isn't limited to your personal data. Facebook has been poaching talent from Google, and Google is fighting back with big bonuses for sticking around. One senior engineer was offered $3.5 million in stock not to jump ship.

If you're a lady, chances are every time someone writes you a letter of recommendation they say you're "caring" or "sensitive," especially if you threatened to rip their balls off if they didn't. There's your problem: too caring and sensitive!

Joel Klein, who's been the head of the New York City school system since 2002, is stepping down—to take a job at News Corp. One insane job to another! His replacement: Hearst chairman Cathie Black.

Joan Walsh is stepping down as Salon's editor to write a book. Kerry Lauerman's replacing her.

After a down year by their standards, Somali pirates are finally back in business: For the release of two tankers they were paid a record ransom of $12.3 million. "We are now counting our cash," one pirate gloated. [BBC]