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redscare posted:It's almost as if 1960s era labor law enforcement is out of date and needs to be updated to reflect 21st century realities. I'd have to agree here. I can't wait for those cases in CA to finish up.
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Drogue Chronicle posted:In addition to overhead, the company is getting paid because their brand and sales force, not your amazing connections, was the main reason you got the job. The company is also getting paid because major employers are no longer willing to contract with single people directly, because they're afraid of winding up with you suing for employment. This means that even if I can market myself alone, the company will insist on contracting with me through an agency. My experience, may not be universal.
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axeil posted:so who do we all hate more now, finance or tech? aren't they pretty much the same at this point. Selling nothing and destroying everything.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The company is also getting paid because major employers are no longer willing to contract with single people directly, because they're afraid of winding up with you suing for employment. This means that even if I can market myself alone, the company will insist on contracting with me through an agency. My experience, may not be universal. This has been my experience as well.
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icantfindaname posted:Tech. At least the finance people don't have any starry-eyed libertarian dreams about themselves as saviors of humanity That's only because libertarians don't believe in God. quote:The chief executive of Goldman Sachs, which has attracted widespread media attention over the size of its staff bonuses, says he believes banks serve a social purpose and are “doing God’s work.”
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I'm sure that's what they told the guys in medieval Europe building those huge churches in exchange for scraps and the virtuous risk of falling to their deaths
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Stinky_Pete posted:I'm sure that's what they told the guys in medieval Europe building those huge churches in exchange for scraps and the virtuous risk of falling to their deaths What could be nobler than falling into martyrdom? 
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I don't think they really believe what they're saying there, it's just pro forma stuff to keep the peasant meatbags satisfied. The tech-libertarians really do believe they're the saviors of humanity icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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axeil posted:so who do we all hate more now, finance or tech? Tech, because they made the finance people that much worse/more powerful.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The company is also getting paid because major employers are no longer willing to contract with single people directly, because they're afraid of winding up with you suing for employment. This means that even if I can market myself alone, the company will insist on contracting with me through an agency. My experience, may not be universal. This is currently how I'm employed. I'm a W-2 employee through some poo poo tech agency that offers piss poor benefits but I have to show up at a certain time and treated like an employee by my assigment without actually getting any of the full time benefits. I think we are finally getting a 401(k)! It's not too bad, but there is a definite turnover due to the insecurity that comes with the job. Oh and we just elected a governor that's going to push for right-to-work.
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Discendo Vox posted:Tech, because they made the finance people that much worse/more powerful. Yeeaaah people who want to get really angry should read about high frequency trading.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Let's just say that I wouldn't be surprised if some of those VC's get some very interesting visits if they dare back out. I wholeheartedly support anything that causes venture capitalists to get their legs broken.
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What we need is an app that helps VCs identify projects to invest in, like a closed-system kickstarter for sociopaths. Ventur?
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Discendo Vox posted:What we need is an app that helps VCs identify projects to invest in, like a closed-system kickstarter for sociopaths. Ventur? It's called AngelList. Or maybe YC.
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Subjunctive posted:It's called AngelList. Or maybe YC. drat. I shoulda known it already existed...that's ok, it's ok. Ummm... here. Ventura is a promising new app that helps you select the startup company funding selection app that best suits your needs.
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Does it include a premium "Ace" service that gives you exclusive investment deals?
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OwlFancier posted:Does it include a premium "Ace" service that gives you exclusive investment deals? "Stanford mode"
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Discendo Vox posted:drat. I shoulda known it already existed...that's ok, it's ok. Ummm... here. The joke "there's an app for that" exists for a reason. There's probably some oddball startup or another that's already started an app for it.
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This tweet thread makes me so happy. https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/702124445666828288 It's the woman who wrote that response to the ex-Yelper
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29-year-olds are millennials now? I'm no drat millennial. vvv NOOOO Mozi fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Mozi posted:29-year-olds are millennials now? I'm no drat millennial. Sorry, friend. Early 1980s to early 2000s. I barely dodge it at 39, you're in the thick of it.
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OwlFancier posted:Does it include a premium "Ace" service that gives you exclusive investment deals? Subjunctive posted:"Stanford mode" "VirginView" gives you early access to our exclusive in-house big data algorithm for unicorn selection. Let the unicorns that lay golden eggs come to you! Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Mozi posted:29-year-olds are millennials now? I'm no drat millennial. You aren't even close, friend. Millennial goes down to somewhere around 1979-1980 if you want to get fuzzy with your demography, but if you were born after 1980 you're dead on.
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Summit posted:Ah, so in other words denying benefits with no increase in compensation to make up for it. Thanks for the clarification.
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Dirk the Average posted:This has been my experience as well. Mine too, the last freelance gig I had ended up going through an absurd level of paper pushing and review. Took C-level intervention to put things straight. I got paid something like 3 months late.
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Lacrosse posted:Yeah Dell was doing that to me when I was working as one of their field techs. Dell charged customers $170/hr for my labor, but I was only getting $15/hr of it. I was a subcontractor, so there were 2 hands in the cookie jar before I ever even got to look at my crumbs. Oh and of course no raises ever and no benefits to speak of. poo poo sucks and it's everywhere. I hear you. I work for an IT services company that sells my services as a vendor to a larger company who doesn't want to pay in-house technicians for gruntwork. I know what they bill for me, and I watch them keep buying out other companies and reporting profits, but things are sure scarce when it comes to raises and benefits keep getting worse.
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Liquid Communism posted:I hear you. I work for an IT services company that sells my services as a vendor to a larger company who doesn't want to pay in-house technicians for gruntwork. Some days I dream of tech worker guilds and then I laugh when I realize how many of them are libertarians 
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RuanGacho posted:Some days I dream of tech worker guilds and then I laugh when I realize how many of them are libertarians This. As I used to say, "If I never meet another 25-year-old Stanford-educated libertarian, it will be JUST FINE with me."
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kliksf posted:I miss fuckedcompany.com more than one of my friends ended up finding out he or she was about to be unemployed by checking the site regularly is there a twenty teens equivalent? IN a similar vein the Downround tracker is trying to keep track of companies valuations that have dropped: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-downround-tracker
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illectro posted:IN a similar vein the Downround tracker is trying to keep track of companies valuations that have dropped: I'm the Jawbone series F. That one had to hurt to show the board the first time.
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Subjunctive posted:Sorry, friend. Early 1980s to early 2000s. I barely dodge it at 39, you're in the thick of it.  to be a millennial. It's hard to have the millennial angst if you don't remember the high hog days of Pets.com
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illectro posted:IN a similar vein the Downround tracker is trying to keep track of companies valuations that have dropped: Thank you for that link! Yes, I really miss fuckedcompany.com , at least until the comments got even crazier than usual for the Internet. (I think I remember racist stuff being thrown around, but whatever the details, it was vile enough that even somebody who reads newspaper comments ran away.)
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FilthyImp posted:Personally, I don't think you can count anyone after 1995 as a millennial. Feels like you should be able to remember 9-11 I don't think many 8 year olds were tuned into pets.com.
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FilthyImp posted:Personally, I don't think you can count anyone after 1995 as a millennial. Feels like you should be able to remember 9-11 My memories of the 90's-2001 are getting really hyped up for 3D graphics in video games, that cool maze screensaver and wondering what the gently caress a twin towers was. And freezing my rear end off in Peace River Country but I like to think most millennials didn't have to deal with that. 
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Trevor Hale posted:This tweet thread makes me so happy. https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/702124445666828288 "Why doesn't everyone just get prime bartending shifts in big cities?" - Young, white woman
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Radbot posted:"Why doesn't everyone just get prime bartending shifts in big cities?" - Young, white woman
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I've always done millennial as "alive, but too young to legally drink on 9/11"
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Bushiz posted:I've always done millennial as "alive, but too young to legally drink on 9/11" That's basically 1980-2000, seems uncontroversial.
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