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Sagebrush posted:Haha, so that's what those loving things are. I saw them first about, yep, 2 weeks ago and couldn't figure out how I'd never seen them before. yeah i've seen a few limebikes here in berkeley. it's kind of a shame, they've put in those ford gobike docks all over the place and no one uses them lol european cities have them and everyone uses them and its kinda nice. tbf all this competition and poo poo is probably not good when they're not used much here already and they all close up shop and go bankrupt and rip em out.
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The Seattle bikes have been causing Coast Guard search and rescue attempts when people abandon them on the ferries. These bikes are a god drat nuisance. They clutter up the sidewalks and when you actually try to use one half the time the thing is loving busted or has a cut brake line.
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Here in (flat as gently caress) Taipei docking bikeshare bikes are a crucial component of public transportation and they work really well. The bikes are actually comfortable enough to ride for a half hour (but most trips aren't that long) and they don't feel cheap or heavy either. I often see trucks full of these bikes, either redistributing bikes or taking them to or from the maintenance area. The city (or maybe Giant, not sure who really runs the program) is definitely putting in the necessary effort to make the program work. On the other hand, there's at least one 'dockless' bikeshare company here here too (O-bike). Their bikes are total garbage and they're kind of a nuisance because they're frequently abandoned. I've seen like 6' tall piles of them at a university bike impound lot too. I would be surprised if they ever maintain their bikes or distribute them where they're needed. Either way, they have a bad reputation and I rarely see people riding them.
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Xaris posted:yeah i've seen a few limebikes here in berkeley. well also we use them because our roads are designed sensibly
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jump bikes were cool and good and then they got acquired by uber
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how does the theranos story keep getting more tech bubbely? how?!? https://twitter.com/nypost/status/984988339274215425
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employee culture in America is hosed up. y'all need unions
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that’s just what it takes to be the biggest economy in the world baybeeeeeeeeeee
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Krankenstyle posted:employee culture in America is hosed up. y'all need unions job creators are delicate snowflakes
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if the amazon mail drones formed a union, then jeff bezos might not hit the 120 billion dollar mark
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what if the maples do
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I actually spoke with and learned a lot more about my workplaces Union for folks like me the other day and gave the dude my contact info
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i was in a grad student union and now i'm not in a union i think. hopefully i will get a tenure track job and be in a union again. it's like a big non-union sandwich
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Krankenstyle posted:employee culture in America is hosed up. y'all need unions mega agreedo which is why opposing the tech industry is vital since it is inherently anti-union
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Stymie posted:mega agreedo which is why opposing the tech industry is vital since it is inherently anti-union there's a weird law in my state that is something along the lines of you're entitled to overtime pay no matter what unless you work with computers
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Apr 14, 2018 07:37
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i get no overtime but i like my job so im the suck?
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Roosevelt posted:there's a weird law in my state that is something along the lines of you're entitled to overtime pay no matter what unless you work with computers a good law, real workers get compensated fairly while computer touchers get wages more in line with what they deserve
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digital labour is labour. I hope that helps
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it does not help, in fact it actively harms the discussion through its sheer mendacity
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new york city has an extremely successful docked bikeshare program, it’s cool and good. the bikes are definitely heavy as gently caress tho
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having done both, i think i'd prefer being worked to dust via manual labor over digital. working at a computer for 8 hours already tears something vital away.
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having done both, I know that manual labour won’t pay enough to be worth leveraging my body for long term. unless I specialize, but I don’t care to do so. with physical labour I’m too drained to care at the end of the day, but I also won’t have the energy to work on poo poo I find intellectually stimulating. in either case, I probably won’t fill the void of greater meaning. may as well do the thing that has better prospects and derive purpose elsewhere
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ate all the Oreos posted:might be able to gently caress over the new state legislature though... hmm I wonder if that might be the idea
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OldAlias posted:having done both, I know that manual labour won’t pay enough to be worth leveraging my body for long term. unless I specialize, but I don’t care to do so. with physical labour I’m too drained to care at the end of the day, but I also won’t have the energy to work on poo poo I find intellectually stimulating. in either case, I probably won’t fill the void of greater meaning. may as well do the thing that has better prospects and derive purpose elsewhere whole lot of words to say "i'm lazy and greedy"
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i work in tech and am in a union
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kind of insane to tap that and then see one of the replies is from someone my wife grew up with, who is evidently now also a journalist the world it is small
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lancemantis posted:
found this brutal own in the comments 
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Roosevelt posted:there's a weird law in my state that is something along the lines of you're entitled to overtime pay no matter what unless you work with computers computer touchers are exempt from overtime pay under federal law too
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Roosevelt posted:there's a weird law in my state that is something along the lines of you're entitled to overtime pay no matter what unless you work with computers idk i think ours is salaried vs hourly, so they shift people over to salaried asap if they touch computers or perhaps know a computer toucher in my company
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haveblue posted:what stops a concerned citizen without a lime account from putting the scooter somewhere not easily found they all have gps tracking so you can find one easily from an app
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Roosevelt posted:there's a weird law in my state that is something along the lines of you're entitled to overtime pay no matter what unless you work with computers My work pays me gobs of overtime, weird. They moved us to hourly in anticipation of the new DoL salary rules which Trump (hero of the little guy that he is) kiboshed. Not exactly a fan of my current work situation but they’ve been honorable on that at least (they said they’d move us to hourly and the did even when they no longer had to). 
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:they all have gps tracking so you can find one easily from an app well yeah but what if the gps is telling you it's deep inside private property or a dumpster or a lake or something
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my buddy works at A Large Tech Company as a PM in CA and the company he works at got fed up with orgs that had lovely work-life balance, so they moved a ton of people to hourly his base pay is like $120k/year, so if they wanna have crunch time, you better start factoring OT in your budget, since it starts after 8 hours worked in a day there, and double-time starts a lot sooner than you'd expect.
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haveblue posted:well yeah but what if the gps is telling you it's deep inside private property or a dumpster or a lake or something used lime bike in AZ and my cousin who lives there told me they fish a bunch out of the canal on the regular. make no mistake, they're like super cheap bikes, pretty much the definition of a disposable commodity bike Just-In-Timeberlake fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Jimmy Carter posted:my buddy works at A Large Tech Company as a PM in CA and the company he works at got fed up with orgs that had lovely work-life balance, so they moved a ton of people to hourly yeah they made some change to the computer toucher exception such that it's possible to be non-exempt, my current contract is that way as well, it's the first time I've been eligible for overtime in like 15 years
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:pretty much the definition of a disposable commodity bike
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I'm so loving happy SF is impounding those scooters. As Qirex said, I've yet to see any used legally. The outside of the Ferry Building last week was like a graveyard for them and those Jump bikes.
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rjmccall posted:new york city has an extremely successful docked bikeshare program, it’s cool and good. the bikes are definitely heavy as gently caress tho same here in toronto. it's pretty well used and has been expanding significantly yoy. doesn't make money though, it got bought up by the parking authority* of all places to keep it running after the original company bailed a year or so in the bikes are heavy as gently caress though and built like tanks *this is probably for the best, and i prefer it as public transit infrastructure
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Lenny Nero posted:I'm so loving happy SF is impounding those scooters. As Qirex said, I've yet to see any used legally. The outside of the Ferry Building last week was like a graveyard for them and those Jump bikes. at least one of these companies tried just straight up dumping cheap chinese dockless bikes around last year and the city shut them down fast I'm not sure what kind of deal jump made but I hope it included money for more bike racks
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