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Fried Watermelon posted:will it make you cheat on your wife or film men in bathrooms? stupid fuckin mistakes man
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Chomp8645 posted:Friend of mine got her motorcycle rear-ended (low speed) last night by a drunk driver. She wasn't hurt but was shaken up a bit and didn't object or think about it when the cops called a tow for the bike. Nobody ever asked her where to take it, the towing company just took it straight to their lot (less than eight miles). This happened to me when I got in an accident years ago. I had a AAA membership, and was somehow able to get them to cover the cost. Pretty sure local cops collaborate with sketchy towing companies for a cut of the fees.
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stuffed crust is a lie, it's never actually stuffed and it always tastes worse than the more honest workaday crusts, and so eating it is thus one of the only mortal pizza sins you can commit, the other one being heating up cold leftover pizza before eating e: after full communism the crusts will actually be stuffed and also coated in garlic and just the right amount of olive oil and will therefore no longer be a pizza sin T-man has issued a correction as of 05:15 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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Panfilo posted:This happened to me when I got in an accident years ago. I had a AAA membership, and was somehow able to get them to cover the cost. Where I live tow companies will literally double the cost of a tow if it's the police who call them in. It's a loving racket and the pigs are complicit.
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T-man posted:stuffed crust is a lie, it's never actually stuffed and it always tastes worse than the more honest workaday crusts, and so eating it is thus one of the only mortal pizza sins you can commit, the other one being heating up cold leftover pizza before eating no pizza rules
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The Washington State Department of Labor is considering changing their overtime rules, increasing the minimum necessary salary to be considered salary-exempt by linking it to the minimum wage, eventually getting to 2.5x the minimum wage by 2026 (projected to be about $80,000, given that the minimum wage in Washington is linked to the CPI). A few surprises, but mostly what you would expect: *Unions were entirely in favor. This was actually a little surprising, given that unions out here usually find a reason to side with business. *Pretty much all of the non-management employees who spoke were in favor of the rule. *A few "small businessmen" who showed up to talk about how fast this seven-year process would be. *Most surprising: the arts community came out in force against the rule; three different arts people there all came out against it, including a dude (HR Director of the 5th Avenue Theater) with a letter signed by most of the major theater groups and museums in the area, urging them to only adopt the $47,000 salary the feds tried to adopt under Obama. Also appearing: Kimerly Rorschach, Director and CEO of the Seattle Art Museum, 62 years old (so she benefitted from the 1976 salary rule, the last time this was updated), who was paid $500,000 in salary in 2014, and Josh LaBelle, Executive Director of Seattle Theater Group, 54 years old (so he didn't benefit quite as much from the 1976 rule, but did benefit from it far more than we do), who was paid $340,000 in salary in 2017, both showed up to advocate for paying their employees less (but weirdly not for paying themselves less; very strange). *Hospitals also sent lobbyists and lawyers in force. *The excuses! So many excuses! --"Our employees want flexibility in their hours!" --"I get to work from home a day a week, and wouldn't be able to do that!" (no explanation as to why being an hourly employee prevents someone from working from home; apparently, the computer knows, and refuses to work for hourly employees?) --"People shouldn't be scrambling after getting paid for every hour they work!" --"Unpaid overtime builds character!" (no joke; said by, of course, a loving Baby Boomer) --"Our employees feel punching a timecard is demeaning." (What the gently caress? Seriously, what the gently caress? That was an HR director from Bartell's) EDIT: Also, Nick Hanauer showed up, unsurprisingly pro-reform. Ham Equity has issued a correction as of 06:51 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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Pentridge Prison was Melbourne's most infamous gaol. Built in 1851 it was a bluestone house of loving horrors. It was finally closed in 1997 and, naturally, turned over to developers because, what had 150 years earlier been far away from any population centres, was now right in the middle of the state's biggest city and sitting on top of land worth millions. The developers, unable to rip its stone guts out, had to become creative.    On one hand, I almost admire their hustle for figuring out how to make money off tiny rooms with immensely thick walls made from incredibly dense rock. But on the other hand, the place is an historic landmark and should be treated with the respect of any location which saw the state brutalising its citizens.
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This seems like it could have been a pretty cool new tourist attraction instead of ... wine cellars??
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Pentridge Prison was Melbourne's most infamous gaol. Built in 1851 it was a bluestone house of loving horrors. I support it if the money is used to provide reparations (lol) is “served at her majesty’s pleasure” some kind of comical way to refer to people imprisoned or is it a wing for military prisoners?
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Thanatosian posted:*The excuses! So many excuses! Work-from-home is often a wink-wink-nudge-nudge way to work less hours. Salaried employees don't always have anywhere near 8-hours of stuff to do in a workday, so working from home basically turns into on-call plus a bit extra. Companies don't give a poo poo because they expect you to be all hands on deck when something is critical. Same deal with the time card and the flexibility. No one gives a poo poo if a salary worker comes in 5 minutes late or ducks out for a long lunch to run an errand unless they are already on the poo poo-list. If workers are paid by the hour, you better believe that the company is a) meticulously tracking time and b) doing whatever possible to keep recorded hours to a strict 40. So you probably won't get roped into too much OT (other than various unpaid prep work), but the trade-off is you ain't gaming the system the other way either.
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ChipNDip posted:Work-from-home is often a wink-wink-nudge-nudge way to work less hours. Salaried employees don't always have anywhere near 8-hours of stuff to do in a workday, so working from home basically turns into on-call plus a bit extra. Companies don't give a poo poo because they expect you to be all hands on deck when something is critical. Same deal with the time card and the flexibility. No one gives a poo poo if a salary worker comes in 5 minutes late or ducks out for a long lunch to run an errand unless they are already on the poo poo-list. work-from-home is a great way to prevent unions. can’t organize if you can’t meet!!
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Chomp8645 posted:Doctor doctor, give me the news! God dammit now this is all I'll be able to hear
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Vomik posted:work-from-home is a great way to prevent unions. can’t organize if you can’t meet!! Nah if people work from home they're already used to meeting remotely with coworkers, you just add each other to some chat thing and use that. It's what we do at my office anyway 
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Vomik posted:I support it if the money is used to provide reparations (lol) It means it was the wing where the royal sex dungeon was and where the royal gimps were stored.
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Shame Boy posted:Nah if people work from home they're already used to meeting remotely with coworkers, you just add each other to some chat thing and use that. It's what we do at my office anyway depends on the kind of work they’re doing. if it’s a distributed call center sort of thing, or sales, they might rarely have cause to meet a co-worker.
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Subjunctive posted:depends on the kind of work they’re doing. if it’s a distributed call center sort of thing, or sales, they might rarely have cause to meet a co-worker. My company has one of these and the only people the work-at-home call center people talk to are their supervisors, who in turn, if they are working at home, speak pretty much only to their managers unless there's a conference call team meeting or something. However, if you are a remote tech worker, you will often be chatting with one or more of your coworkers on the side, whether management approves or not.
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Cross post from the relationships thread. Enjoy the story of this captain of industry self-owning himself again and again.alphabettitouretti posted:Was it this thread where the story about the dude who illegally fired his employees then got caught by the taxman was posted? It might have been the capitalism thread. Anyway, he's back "I only evaded about £800,000 worth"
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alphabettitouretti posted:Cross post from the relationships thread. Enjoy the story of this captain of industry self-owning himself again and again. "I only evaded about £800,000 worth" [/quote] God, they need to throw that guy into prison for the rest of his loving life. quote:My business employed 20 people. Invested in the local community. I started from NOTHING and built a small textile industry which helps provide material for the clothes, furniture, people like you take for granted. Small businesses and enterprises like me get no help from the government, I had to take the risk to get the best out of it. I am a successful businessman with multiple houses which I own and provide housing by renting it out, wheres your business?
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lol what a douchebag. Go to jail bithc!!!
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I'm not about to look it up on my phone but I do not believe for a second that the UK has 0 small business breaks or subsidies.
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Moridin920 posted:I'm not about to look it up on my phone but I do not believe for a second that the UK has 0 small business breaks or subsidies.
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My favorite part was "I'd ask my accountant but he's currently under investigation too" Gee I wonder how you got into this situation in the first place 
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Thanatosian posted:God, they need to throw that guy into prison for the rest of his loving life. Ok never mind my favorite part is now "I'm so generous and benevolent, after all I own a bunch of houses and charge people to live in them  "
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Chomp8645 posted:lol what a douchebag. Go to jail bithc!!!
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Here's a summary of the previous parts for anyone who doesn't want to click the links: 1 year ago: Hi Reddit, can I do employment crimes like firing someone for going on strike? 4 months ago: Ok well I went ahead and did the employment crimes and now those mean ol' trade unions are suing me!!! This never would have happened if the unions had just listened to me saying "please don't sue me", ugh! Choice quote: quote:I have a family to feed, to put food on the plate and I was effectively losing money with their unnecessary strike actions 3 months ago: Ok I'm trying to just liquidate this company now and I was worried I'd be sued by the employees and union, so I just didn't tell them. Apparently THAT'S illegal too and I might go to prison?! Of course, my employees are probably too stupid to notice, so I'm fine. Choice quote, emphasis mine: quote:I'm making GBS threads myself at the moment in facing potentially prison time for a victimless crime. Surely there must be another defence, can someone help me out please??? 2 months ago: I just tried to just immediately start the company over with the money from the liquidated company, but that's ALSO illegal apparently?! And now I have to go to court for all my crimes, but I didn't show up because I couldn't bring my crooked accountant with me, and now they're threatening to arrest me?! This is all the fault of my drat lawyer, who should have told me all these things were illegal before I tried to do them! Choice quote: quote:Journalist from the Evening Standard attempted to contact me so I'm worried this would be plastered all over the news which is the last thing I want.
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WhErE's YoUr BuSiNeSs????
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Panfilo posted:Pretty sure local cops collaborate with sketchy towing companies for a cut of the fees. I'm 110% certain this is the case in my town as well. When my car was stolen a few months back by some douche- my work had it all on film and even got the guys' face and the cops told me over and over again they'd try and contact me if the car was found and in running shape so I could pick it up before it got towed, and that they'd be going after the guy. Maybe three days later it was found and the officer who found it made no effort to call me so instead it was towed. The next day the police called to let me know it was recovered and at a tow lot and so I was left with $300+75/day tow lot fees. Total loving racket. My insurance did an about face and didn't want to reimburse me at all for the tow or the cost of a rental car unless I had a tier of car insurance that's like triple what I already pay. They never followed up on trying to find the car thief and I was told, "just get a club so it doesn't happen again." Like I guess check that one off the ol' life experience list?
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It seems that when I stole all that money I was committing something called a "crime"? And now I'm supposed to go to some thing called a "court" and bring a "lawyer" with me? I dunno the whole thing sounds like a scam so I'll just ignore it until all this goes away 
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holy gently caress he's completely detached from reality and his actions having consequences this owns and i hope he goes to prison
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I've often thought a really great super power would be the ability to FORCE people to really grok, just really feel and understand with every fiber of their being, just how terrible their actions are and what harm they've done. Like a nonviolent Punisher.
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Gotta love the accountant who advised him to just liquidate his assets before he could be sued out of them and is now under investigation xerself.
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Imagined posted:I've often thought a really great super power would be the ability to FORCE people to really grok, just really feel and understand with every fiber of their being, just how terrible their actions are and what harm they've done. Like a nonviolent Punisher.  Ghost Rider has that ability. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Glossary:Penance_Stare
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Shame Boy posted:Here's a summary of the previous parts for anyone who doesn't want to click the links: jfc
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quote:I do not want a disqualification order. I've worked all my life as a director. I've contributed so much to my businesses. To disqualify me for 15 years.. that would remove any dignity and agency I have. I am fit to be director, if my solicitor was good enough this probably wouldn't have happened. - Talking about dignity and agency after firing union employees trying to strike after loving them on their pension plans (and who knows what else, this is just what this person admits to) - Contributed so much? You appear to have blown up a small issue into such a big deal that you literally cratered your business and lost everyone's money and your workers' jobs. For nothing. - And to cap it all off, continues to blame all this on other people even after admitting multiple times that he didn't listen to those people's advice. gently caress these people so hard. Everything is always someone else's fault. How dare the union leader not just gently caress over the employee and do what he wanted! His totally illegal action would have been fine otherwise!! Then in social events they turn around and talk a big game about how they are making jobs and renting homes to people and blah blah blah so responsible so loving awesome. Everyone else is just lazy and doesn't work hard! Pieces of poo poo. Moridin920 has issued a correction as of 19:28 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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Moridin920 posted:- Talking about dignity and agency after firing union employees trying to strike after loving them on their pension plans (and who knows what else, this is just what this person admits to) For rich people like this guy who do poo poo like this we really need to go back to branding people homo sacer and just letting the people sort it out.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/city-hopes-baby-shark-song-will-drive-homeless-from-park-1.4511520quote:West Palm Beach parks and recreation director Leah Rockwell tells the Palm Beach Post they're trying to discourage people from sleeping outside the glass-walled Waterfront Lake Pavilion, which she says rakes in some $240,000 annually from events. It's wild to live in an age where abstract legal entities such as corporations are more real as people than actual people
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Give every tramp a gun and so on
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Moridin920 posted:Give every tramp a gun To the tune of "Lift Every Voice and Sing".
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Imagined posted:I've often thought a really great super power would be the ability to FORCE people to really grok, just really feel and understand with every fiber of their being, just how terrible their actions are and what harm they've done. Like a nonviolent Punisher. Persona 5 has this, although it's very Anime and not as cathartic as it could be. Still, watching villains go "oh gently caress I'm a piece of poo poo and I really need to be arrested now" is cool and good.
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