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Wulfolme posted:Wasn't Bush basically a robber baron before he entered office yes but the american people still expect former presidents to remain aloof, uninvolved elder statesmen until they die sooner or later someone is going to buck that trend for fat stacks of cash sometime later a CEO will be elected straight from their company into the whitehouse, knowing they can go right back to the valley once they're done and the transition to a Tunnytocracy will be complete
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 18:56 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:The breastaurant industry is even worse hooters is sad because it's literally a place for dudes whose wives/girlfriends forbid them to go to strip clubs
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:02 |
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Shaggar posted:yes I cant wait to watch the irs spend more money than it gets trying to prosecute individual uber drivers. Agreed, uber should really man up and take the initiative in getting the drivers to pay their fair share to avoid horrible government waste that turns the rest of the united states into the bearer of uber's externalities
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:02 |
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oh wait you mean gently caress the gubmint oh ok
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:03 |
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Wells posted:I guess what I'm saying is don't missattribute this to intentional deception. it's just lazy+greedy
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:03 |
Condiv posted:they could've got the data if they wanted to by inviting a sample group of drivers to have their net income measured in exchange for a bonus or something. god knows they were able to rope their drivers into other more retarded poo poo like delivering kittens or lovely icecream so it's really #2. uber has all the data they need to accurately estimate net income for drivers. they require you to disclose your car's year, make, and model which combined with their knowledge of miles driven is enough to get fleet average fuel economy/cost and depreciation numbers. it just isn't in their interests at all to do the calculation.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:05 |
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Wells posted:What's the benefit for them gathering the data? how does it increase their profits? They could have gotten the data if they spent money and time collecting it, but that doesn't really give them anything useful in the realm of making more money. the same benefit they got from making the analysis in the first place. they made this analysis as propaganda (helps to convince politicians not to regulate them more/at all), and it would be a bigger feather in their cap if they could claim uber driver net income > taxi driver net income. and i don't think i'm misattributing, i'm pretty sure they set out to deceive. look at this analysis if you don't read the paragraph under the table and realize driver's earnings means pre-tax, pre-expenses earnings you could easily come away with the impression that uber drivers are making way more than taxi drivers the explanatory paragraph even claims that net income is higher for uber drivers as long as expenses per hour are less than $6 for a driver, without bothering to actually estimate the amount of taxes uber drivers owe on their earnings. how is that at all honest?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:10 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:hooters is sad because it's literally a place for dudes whose wives/girlfriends forbid them to go to strip clubs the unspoken arrangement at hooters and tilted kilt is that you can pay money to sexually harass a woman your daughter's age, up close and personal. the food is irrelevant.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:10 |
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Condiv posted:the explanatory paragraph even claims that net income is higher for uber drivers as long as expenses per hour are less than $6 for a driver, without bothering to actually estimate the amount of taxes uber drivers owe on their earnings. how is that at all honest? further research bitch
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:13 |
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They opened up a Twin Peaks in my parent's town and the beer is apparently kept under the freezing point and they serve it with ice still floating in it right in the loving center of town, by one of the busiest roads too
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:19 |
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Wulfolme posted:They opened up a Twin Peaks in my parent's town and the beer is apparently kept under the freezing point and they serve it with ice still floating in it why would a cult 1980s TV show directed by noted transcendental meditation guru David Lynch open up a restaurant in ur hometown? idgi
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:31 |
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Solkanar512 posted:Is there a good article out there explaining what exactly Ichan is doing and how splitting up Ebay benefits him? I'm dumb and don't understand what's going on here. eBay doesn't have much going for it besides what they've already got so it's time to clamp down and unleash the MBAs to squeeze as much efficiency out of it as possible paypal still has, potentially, a lot of growth and the ceo of eBay hosed them out of a lot of opportunities in the past. they're better off on their own
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Solkanar512 posted:Is there a good article out there explaining what exactly Ichan is doing and how splitting up Ebay benefits him? I'm dumb and don't understand what's going on here. carl icahn is an old school corporate raider where he buys enough of a companyto make a nuisance of himself then demands that they immediately do things that will make the stock go up with no consideration for the future of the company beyond him making money in the next 2-8 quarters in this case the thinking is that ebay isn't growing any more but paypal is so splitting them up will turn paypal into a stock market rocketship http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/09/30/ebay-and-paypal-to-split-carl-icahn-and-elon-musk-wish-comes-true/
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:44 |
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vodkat posted:why would a cult 1980s TV show directed by noted transcendental meditation guru David Lynch open up a restaurant in ur hometown? idgi I saw the Twin Peaks in Vegas and was really confused and a little hopeful but then I found out it's just lumberjack hooters
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:45 |
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qirex posted:I saw the Twin Peaks in Vegas and was really confused and a little hopeful but then I found out it's just lumberjack hooters same except when i read an article about one opening up nearby
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:47 |
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I went to the tilted kilt [scottish hooters] when I was on a business trip and it was the dadliest place I've ever been
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:49 |
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qirex posted:I went to the tilted kilt [scottish hooters] when I was on a business trip and it was the dadliest place I've ever been It's bad.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:50 |
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their little texas town couldn't even get a real hooters
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:51 |
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like a table of four dudes in cargo shorts and polos complaining about their wives, eating nachos and unironically flirting with the waitresses I thought such places only existed in commercials and sitcoms
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:52 |
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qirex posted:I went to the tilted kilt [scottish hooters] when I was on a business trip and it was the dadliest place I've ever been if only this was a gay version of hooters in which really buff guys walk around in tiny kilts
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:53 |
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vodkat posted:if only this was a gay version of hooters in which really buff guys walk around in tiny kilts i would give money to this establishment in exchange for food
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:55 |
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I have an ex gf with fake boobs that worked at twin peaks, she cleared like $60,000 in take home in 9 months and then quit to go to community college and now makes $9/hr retail
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:56 |
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Beast of Bourbon posted:I have an ex gf with fake boobs that worked at twin peaks, she cleared like $60,000 in take home in 9 months and then quit to go to community college and now makes $9/hr retail sounds like she figured out a price for her dignity
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:57 |
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vodkat posted:if only this was a gay version of hooters in which really buff guys walk around in tiny kilts A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i would give money to this establishment in exchange for food
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:59 |
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qirex posted:sounds like she figured out a price for her dignity yep, she hated it. she says she can always go back though, she had no boobs before and is amazed that guys just gave her money to look at her fake ones and all that but the comments and dudes waiting for her to get off work she couldn't handle.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:13 |
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Condiv posted:and on average uberers only make $6 an hour over regular taxi drivers (when you compare uber driver gross earnings to taxi driver net income) because uber doesn't care about drivers' net income. their business model relies on externalizing or refusing to pay as many expenses as possible. uber's position is that whatever expenses drivers may have to pay aren't uber's problem or concern, and uber has no desire to nail it down to hard numbers since that just makes it harder to pretend to be ignorant of those expenses also the only reason they're releasing these numbers is for marketing and media buzz, so they have an obvious interest in making the numbers look as positive as possible
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:16 |
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Beast of Bourbon posted:dudes waiting for her to get off work those places really should issue stun guns to all of their employees as part of the standard uniform
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:20 |
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hell, make that the theme. "sexy cops" and everybody has a tazer
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:20 |
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duTrieux. posted:those places really should issue stun guns to all of their employees as part of the standard uniform When I lived out in the burbs, the only place I could walk to and watch a hockey game was an Applebee's. there was a woman in her forties who worked there at the bar. her early thirties boyfriend would spend each and every shift she had sitting at the end of the bar, drinking. wouldn't talk to her or anyone else. it was creepy.
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duTrieux. posted:those places really should issue stun guns to all of their employees as part of the standard uniform most of the time they provide space for the women to change into uniform on site and have someone there will escort them back to their cars. breasturants are hosed up. also strip clubs play the same "they are independent contractors!" game as uber and such.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:29 |
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Shifty Pony posted:also strip clubs play the same "they are independent contractors!" game as uber and such.
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Shifty Pony posted:most of the time they provide space for the women to change into uniform on site and have someone there will escort them back to their cars. When I first started here, a bunch of dadly colleagues invited me to hit the Tilted Kilt with them. they harassed the poor waitress and jokes about how they could "buy her." men in their 40s and early 50s. it was gross and shameful.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:34 |
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FMguru posted:strip clubs often dont pay their dancers or make their dancers pay to perform (and hoepfully make it up on tips). wanna dance on the main stage saturday night? thatll cost you $200 up front that's because dancing on stage is basically an advertisement for the private lap dances and/or time in the "VIP section" (where depending on the club and girl may range from "a little extra physical contact" to "illicit blowjobs")
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:37 |
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In my experience, it appeared that the really high earning dancers were always either working the floor or constantly in the VIP room. They may do like one routine but the floor was for the dancers who needed to advertise more.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:41 |
A ton of poo poo that strip clubs do with their not-employees is illegal as all hell but the women have to just take it because nobody is going to stand up for strippers and even if they took it to court there's the near certainty that a jurist would be biased against them. Same with house cleaners, but they unfortunately often have an added racism and/or immigration status clusterfuck going on as well.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:47 |
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i dont know anything about strip clubs at all
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:47 |
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dudes that are all "so let me lay it down for you here's how the biz works" and have intimate details of the tipping and scheduling systems skeeve me out
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:47 |
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Spime Wrangler posted:yes but the american people still expect former presidents to remain aloof, uninvolved elder statesmen until they die lol why bother with a job when you can get phat stacks for speaking gigs hi im bill clinton its great to be here at (corporate / trade group) This reminds me of (anecdote from when I was president) and it will be exciting to talk about (cause notionally related to what this company does). here's the same speech ive given 100 times this year. closing color anecdote, applause, $200K cashier's check pls
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:48 |
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Jonny 290 posted:dudes that are all "so let me lay it down for you here's how the biz works" and have intimate details of the tipping and scheduling systems skeeve me out I had a sometimes acquaintance friend of a friend who swore up and down that a woman at the seediest club in town was into him. "I know they pretend to like you for tips, but this is different!"
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now what you want to do here is put two umbrellas in a highball between 11:45 and midnight. you will receive an SMS indicating a base64-encoded bathroom stall number. Enter and present a palm frond from the plant at the entrance to have a girl stick her keys up your rear end
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