Tokamak posted:

wondering where this came from.
by ubers own numbers they have 3000 full time employees, and 'on boarded' 1,000,000 drivers. did they convert the driver hours into full time positions, or did they just take ubers driver numbers for america (which would be p. dumb)?

Necc0 posted:

i'm guessing translated to the full-time equivalent but that does seem shady for an academic

eschaton posted:

even an academic economist?

reminder that the Freakanomics and Planet Money people worship the Chicago Boys, who ran Chile's economy under Pinochet, and think the CIA was right to help depose and kill the "Communist" Allende

full cybersyn now

duTrieux. posted:

if there was ever a union that should be busted it's the goddamn police

Kobayashi posted:

The full-time job, used to it as we are, is not some natural state of human existence. Before the 1800s, few people worked a structured “work week.” That conceit was dreamed up by early industrialists, who needed to bring workers together in a factory at the same time to efficiently make products. For the past 100 years, the 40-hour job has been the centerpiece of work life because there was no better way for people to gather in one place at the same time to connect, collaborate and produce. 

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

try to get a govt job and never look back get a cost of living adjustment again because one party hates the idea of your existence

Shifty Pony posted:

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

try to get a govt job and never look back

eschaton posted:

even an academic economist?

reminder that the Freakanomics and Planet Money people worship the Chicago Boys, who ran Chile's economy under Pinochet, and think the CIA was right to help depose and kill the "Communist" Allende

full cybersyn now

FMguru posted:

the worst racism i ever saw was a forum i once belonged to that had a large population of oh-so-lefty britishers, all of whom wrung their hands about racism and inequality and imperialims and americas scandalous treatment of black people and all that - right up until someone mentioned gypsies, pikeys, or travellers, at which point holy poo poo kristallnacht 2 nacht harder suddenly broke out

Captain Foo posted:

the entire U.S. government just had its personnel records popped

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i've had this experience in person and it is dead on

british people apparently even take offense if they overhear strangers speaking another language in their country(s)

computer parts posted:

one of the planks for the ukip is to repeal the metric system in the uk

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i've had this experience in person and it is dead on

british people apparently even take offense if they overhear strangers speaking another language in their country(s)

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i've had this experience in person and it is dead on

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

would you rather: a Chinese 11y/o knows your name

or

you have micro-careers or whatever vomit idiot techbro shared

quote:

We may not be reaching as many of the people on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder, but those people, they may enjoy the game, but they pay less, and we're not seeing the conversion on the per-caps [Gustavo note: spend more money like other, wealthier fans, in Halospeak]," Alvarado said. "In doing so, the ticket price that we're offering those people, it's not like I can segregate them, because I'm offering it up to the public, and I'm basically downselling everybody else in order to accommodate them."

quote:

Lyft driver in Seattle allegedly drags customer behind car after demanding sex


Lyft deactivated a driver in Seattle after police say he demanded sex from a rider before dragging her beside his car as she tried to retrieve her lost phone.

The Seattle Police Department described the incident here, which happened early Saturday morning around 1:30 a.m. in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

After being dropped off by a Lyft driver at home, the victim realized she left her iPhone 6 in the vehicle. She used an iPad to call her phone and the driver answered.

However, the Lyft driver told the woman, “I’m working,” and “you’re not going to talk to me like that,” and “you don’t deserve your phone back,” while repeatedly hanging up on her, according to the police report. Eventually, he said he would bring the phone back if she had sex with him.

The driver returned to the victim’s home and met her outside. She noticed that he was holding her phone and tried reaching in the vehicle through the driver-side window. The driver then sped away while the victim’s arm was still inside the car, dragging her “slightly” and leaving her with “multiple lacerations and abrasions on her feet, legs, arms and hands.”

The woman then texted a friend, who contacted police. The victim’s phone was turned off when police tried calling the device. The victim was able to provide her e-mailed ride receipt from Lyft, which showed trip information along with a photo of the driver.

Investigators are working with Lyft to identify the driver. Here’s a statement from Lyft:

We take all matters involving safety extremely seriously. We immediately disabled the driver’s account upon receiving this troubling report. Our Trust and Safety team has been in touch with the passenger and we will continue to help in any way we can, as well as support the authorities in the ongoing investigation.
Like Uber and Sidecar, Lyft requires background checks of all its drivers. “As pioneers in transportation, we’re changing the industry with safety front of mind,” the company notes.

As a way to help “personalize” the ride experience, Lyft in March added driver and rider profiles, “a new feature that gives passengers and drivers the option to share fun facts about themselves and discover mutual friends and interests.”

In May 2014, a Lyft passenger punched his driver in the nose in Seattle after he was asked to stop smoking in the vehicle.

Earlier this year, a Cato Institute study found that Uber and Lyft were just as safe as taxis.

quote:

We're not seeing the conversion on the per-caps

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

i'm the need for an unbiased cato institute disclaimer. also i'm the identification assistance.

Captain Foo posted:

jesus christ wtf the 40-hour work week is good and if anything FTE should be less hours

theflyingexecutive posted:

shorter work weeks only benefit the salaried tho, ask how many wage slaves how great the obamacare 30 hour week is treating them now that they have to find second and third jobs with compatible hours

Luigi Thirty posted:

owner of the Angels on why the lowest attendance in 15 years is OK:


poors don't spend money and they make other people spend less money so i don't want them here.

syscall girl posted:

uhh, that's not even remotely related to obummer's policies

corps have been giving employees 39* hours to dodge benefits for quite a while


*or wherever the cutoff is in a given state

theflyingexecutive posted:

most retail jobs are computer scheduled and some are even assessed the day before your shift, so the only way to get a second job is to limit your availability on certain days. if you're even hired in the first place, limiting your availability is a quick road to unemployment. good luck getting scheduled while your kids are in school or anything convenient like that, human_work_unit_allocator_v3.exe has determined that you must work 7-11pm Wednesday and 8am-12pm Thursday and reminds you that these 29.5 hours a week are a gift and could drop down precipitously and without warning

theflyingexecutive posted:

aca made the health care cutoff 30 hours, so now people get 29.5 hours instead of 39.5 hours

theflyingexecutive posted:

"we expect you to clock out within 18 seconds of your shift ending. we also expect you to wait on any customer in your line who is incapable of noticing when your line is closed. we see no way in which these expectations may conflict."

syscall girl posted:

it's loving disgusting how hard working people are treated

syscall girl posted:

it's loving disgusting how hard working people are treated

Progressive JPEG posted:

i was recently in sweden for a ~10 day vaca and people working retail or other 'menial jobs' seemed genuinely happier there

gee i wonder why

quote:

"What about Fannie and Freddie?" he asked. "Government kept giving homes to black people, to help out black people, white people didn't get anything, and then they couldn't pay for them. What about that?"

I gave a quick response about how most experts would disagree with that assumption, that it was actually an oversimplification, and pretty dishonest, and isn't it good that someone made the video we just watched to try to clear things up? And, hey, let's talk about whether that was effective, okay? If you don't think it was, how could it have been?

The rest of the discussion went on as usual.

The next week, I got called into my director's office. I was shown an email, sender name redacted, alleging that I "possessed communistical [sic] sympathies and refused to tell more than one side of the story." The story in question wasn't described, but I suspect it had do to with whether or not the economic collapse was caused by poor black people.

My director rolled her eyes. She knew the complaint was silly bullshit. I wrote up a short description of the past week's class work, noting that we had looked at several examples of effective writing in various media and that I always made a good faith effort to include conservative narratives along with the liberal ones.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid


followed by 40 page article about identity politics but lol we're all hosed

theflyingexecutive posted:

most retail jobs are computer scheduled and some are even assessed the day before your shift, so the only way to get a second job is to limit your availability on certain days. if you're even hired in the first place, limiting your availability is a quick road to unemployment. good luck getting scheduled while your kids are in school or anything convenient like that, human_work_unit_allocator_v3.exe has determined that you must work 7-11pm Wednesday and 8am-12pm Thursday and reminds you that these 29.5 hours a week are a gift and could drop down precipitously and without warning

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

british people apparently even take offense if they overhear strangers speaking another language in their country(s)