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Just sent an email to the Tory complaints address regarding the anti-Semitic comments from one RT. Hon. Michael Gove MP and called on them to address this before his constituents in Surrey Heath cast their ballots, as they deserve to know the full character of his nature beforehand. Edit; Catte tax
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surveys do show increased demand for flexible working hours and flexible locations by some, in the concrete sense of people being willing to accept massive cuts to pay to obtain these benefits when considering offers...quote:Figure 7 plots the choices for the flexible schedule job for survey respondents not in flexible-schedule jobs. There is very little demand in this group for flexible positions; only half of respondents are willing to take even a 2% pay cut for flexibility. Among individuals currently in positions with flexible scheduling, it is more nuanced. While the mean WTP is still quite low among this group (2.0%), there is a subset of workers that really value flexibility. The top 25% of workers in flexible jobs is willing to give up 16% of their pay for the option to make their own schedule. This is consistent with sorting in the labor market, where workers with the highest WTP for flexible scheduling are in flexible-schedule jobs. This may also be driven by the endowment effect, with workers valuing the ability to make their own schedules because they have it... esp in terms of collective bargaining, bargaining for flextime at the table does come at the expense of workers who might prefer to accept fixed hours and fixed locations instead, and focus on other forms of compensation. One longstanding tension here is that surveys that don't quantify the compensating differential (the pay cut someone is willing to accept for a benefit) tend to vastly overstate demand for flextime, which leads trade unions to prioritize it and then be slightly baffled when uptake is low it is the case that flextime might be more realistic at the bargaining table than other forms of compensation - many workplaces genuinely do not necessarily benefit from having 100% attendance at nine am sharp
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:03 |
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https://twitter.com/alex4pt/status/1191104292016410624?s=21
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:03 |
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I wonder if you can call myrddin on it.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:08 |
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My hours are largely fixed, though I have a good boss that helps me out when needed, but what I do appreciate is the ability to regularly work from home. I normally only do it once a week or so, except when on backshift which I always work from home for, but lemme say having the ability to be in the house if you have a tradesman, or even just because you woke up today and can't quite bring yourself to fully face the world, cannot be undersold. This should not, however, be taken as an indicator by your employer that they need less overall office space, as I'm given to understand the HMRC are doing. The new spaces have capacity for something like 7 in every 10 staff who have it as their designated primary workplace. (Not counting call center staff)
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:12 |
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mehall posted:Just sent an email to the Tory complaints address regarding the anti-Semitic comments from one RT. Hon. Michael Gove MP and called on them to address this before his constituents in Surrey Heath cast their ballots, as they deserve to know the full character of his nature beforehand. I am eager for their no-doubt rapid and effective reply! I am further eager for that kitten to be given pet!
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:13 |
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it's beautiful
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:16 |
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pretty sure there are non-voters to be turned out with a promise to legalise weed and to go after prince andrew for noncing
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:16 |
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:
Looks like an opportunity for a modern-day Crassus like myself (How does one line up images better than I have in this post? I'm asking for a plebian.)
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:20 |
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gh0stpinballa posted:pretty sure there are non-voters to be turned out with a promise to legalise weed and to go after prince andrew for noncing If legalising weed isn't in Labour's manifesto then I think it's going to be a huge missed opportunity
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:38 |
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I think sometimes there is a bit of confusion with the term "flexible working", ronya is taking it to to mean "guaranteed hours but flexibility over when you work", while sometimes "flexible working" is used as a dogwhistle for insecure gig economy poo poo
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:39 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:Holy poo poo, he is! Genuinely thought he was in his late 40s at the most. Trying to keep a grift going at all costs in the hope of an easy life ages you. Contrariwise, doing good makes you radiate vitality even as you enter senescence*: I make no comment on Milne because I know very little about him * My god what a grotesquely spelled word. Told you.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:40 |
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MikeCrotch posted:I think sometimes there is a bit of confusion with the term "flexible working", ronya is taking it to to mean "guaranteed hours but flexibility over when you work", while sometimes "flexible working" is used as a dogwhistle for insecure gig economy poo poo Yeah my work has 'flexible working' which basically just means core hours are between 10 and 4 but you can turn up any time before then and leave any time after as long as you do your 8 hours it's all good. I like it a lot more because I get to work 8 to 4 and miss the rush hour and have a nice quiet hour in the morning with no one else around.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:43 |
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Rarity posted:If legalising weed isn't in Labour's manifesto then I think it's going to be a huge missed opportunity there are the uk equiv of joe rogan independents who would be massively attracted by that, and also lifting the lid on some choice state secrets
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:45 |
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MikeCrotch posted:sometimes "flexible working" is used as a dogwhistle for insecure gig economy poo poo Bend over backwards for me while I roger you, peasant
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:46 |
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I like having flexible working hours, because it means that as long as my work keeps getting done & I turn up at the office every once in a while & answer my phone & emails nobody really cares if I feel like sleeping in some days or piss off to run errands or hit the gym in the middle of the day. It's great for parents & the disabled too. Trouble is that when people say "flexible working hours" these days they generally mean flexible demands, imposed upon the worker by the boss at their absolute discretion with no realistic way to refuse. We seriously need some more modernised workers' rights right loving now, before the notion of "flexible hours" becomes so poisoned that people are actually fighting to have to go sit in an office all day (why would you want this!) and all those that can't for whatever reason get left behind. Also before people start insisting I have to actually go to work every day because gently caress that, frankly
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:54 |
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Aphex- posted:Yeah my work has 'flexible working' which basically just means core hours are between 10 and 4 but you can turn up any time before then and leave any time after as long as you do your 8 hours it's all good. I like it a lot more because I get to work 8 to 4 and miss the rush hour and have a nice quiet hour in the morning with no one else around. I had a friend who had this working at an airport. He would show up at at work at midnight and go home at 8 in the morning and maybe did 1 hour of work in that time. You would think that they would crack down on something like that but there were already more than enough functional adults to fill the spots during the regular work day
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:56 |
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Also 5 day working weeks are dumb and pointless. Friday is basically a write off for a lot of people at my work anyway so we might as well just make it official.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 09:56 |
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Ms Adequate posted:I am eager for their no-doubt rapid and effective reply! If you met her you'd think she'd never been given a single attention. I can assure you this is very much a lie.
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Hey folks, while I was away on holiday I noticed someone that volunteers for a CLP or Momentum I think looking for computer touchers? I can't seem to find it now but I'm a Python dev/SQL DBA if there's something I can help someone with. e: https://twitter.com/TheBirmingham6/status/1191272477005111302
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:02 |
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Eschenique posted:I had a friend who had this working at an airport. He would show up at at work at midnight and go home at 8 in the morning and maybe did 1 hour of work in that time. This definitely feels like praxis.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:03 |
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Rarity posted:If legalising weed isn't in Labour's manifesto then I think it's going to be a huge missed opportunity Hell, if I was forced to pick one and only one between legal weed or MDMA being available at Boots and mental health professionals plus cultural elders being able to dispense LSD and psilocybin at their discretion I'd still go with the latter. I'm still pro legalization overall, and I hope it's the first crack in the dam, it just seems very culturally strange that that's the one drug that we've staked the drug war battleground on. Definitely release the Nonce Andrew files tho.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:05 |
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Borrovan posted:I like having flexible working hours, because it means that as long as my work keeps getting done & I turn up at the office every once in a while & answer my phone & emails nobody really cares if I feel like sleeping in some days or piss off to run errands or hit the gym in the middle of the day. It's great for parents & the disabled too. My office is going to start going down the route that everyone works at home at least one day a week (which a lot of people already do). A lot of people hate the idea, because either they're just not set up to work at home, or they can't get into the mindset of working productively outside of the office environment. Even when I work at home I have trouble keeping my mind on work and end up finding distractions for myself (like browsing UKMT at 9.05am).
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:07 |
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Banning cash machine charges is a new one to me https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1191268103851782144?s=19
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:08 |
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MikeCrotch posted:I think sometimes there is a bit of confusion with the term "flexible working", ronya is taking it to to mean "guaranteed hours but flexibility over when you work", while sometimes "flexible working" is used as a dogwhistle for insecure gig economy poo poo employee-side flexibility is the conventional meaning of "flexible working hours" in formal/academic contexts (e.g.) employer-side flexibility is generally called on-call work or "variable working hours", but there is no particular guarantee of consistent usage in the context of Moore's article that HDS quotes, it probably has the conventional meaning in mind - employee-side flexible hours and and the employee's discretion in remote work for "normal" days. Even so, it's worth being aware that this does come at a cost to employees who do not value these aspects of a workplace. It is piecework pay for knowledge workers, since a workplace that invests in flexible work hours necessarily finds other ways to assess employee contributions besides being present at a worksite to take orders from management, and these metrics are then applied to workers who do not take up flextime anyway - in English, for example, a project team might be expected to meet certain project milestones on time but retain discretion over how/when they show up to do so; the milestones are then set assuming a broadly 40 hour week. The employee is then taking on the managerial duty of managing themselves to meet those milestones, and this would remain true whether or not one leverages those flexible hours. This would be annoying if what one instead expects from work is to perform pre-specified tasks for pre-specified hours in a day, and have management entirely own the responsibility for making sure those tasks translate into revenues.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:10 |
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Jose posted:Banning cash machine charges is a new one to me "business taxes are killing high streets" is a p weird take
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:11 |
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Steve2911 posted:My office is going to start going down the route that everyone works at home at least one day a week (which a lot of people already do). A lot of people hate the idea, because either they're just not set up to work at home, or they can't get into the mindset of working productively outside of the office environment. Parents with dead souls go to work to get a break from family life. Making them spend more time at home is a punishment.
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Jose posted:Banning cash machine charges is a new one to me https://labour.org.uk/press/rebecca-long-bailey-responds-pwcs-high-streets-report/ Tijuana Bibliophile posted:"business taxes are killing high streets" is a p weird take It's an online-vs-brick&mortar thing - online deliveries don't pay local business rates
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https://twitter.com/SolHughesWriter/status/1191283447614070784?s=19 https://twitter.com/SolHughesWriter/status/1191284392720838659?s=19 Jose fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Nov 4, 2019 |
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Look who slithered out of his haunted mansion: quote:Tony Blair: save Britain by supporting moderate MPs Shut. The. gently caress. Up. Tony.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:27 |
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MikeCrotch posted:I think sometimes there is a bit of confusion with the term "flexible working", ronya is taking it to to mean "guaranteed hours but flexibility over when you work", while sometimes "flexible working" is used as a dogwhistle for insecure gig economy poo poo "Flexible working" in my experience is "you are expected to work whenever we tell you to"
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:30 |
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Isn't the point of working from home to rack up as many videogame hours as possible while clearing out a couple of emails during loading screens?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:31 |
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Junior G-man posted:Look who slithered out of his haunted mansion:
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:32 |
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Arrest Blair
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:34 |
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Liberalism.txt The problem isn't the policy, this is very much a branding issue.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:37 |
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Ratjaculation posted:Arrest Blair There's still time for this to become a reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNa8yb0Q_fo
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:39 |
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ronya posted:It's an online-vs-brick&mortar thing - online deliveries don't pay local business rates oh right, that makes more sense.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:43 |
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ronya posted:https://labour.org.uk/press/rebecca-long-bailey-responds-pwcs-high-streets-report/ I can't find a link to it now but I definitely read a study that showed for any decrease in business rates, 100% of the cost saving ends up being passed on to commercial landlords. Which makes logical sense, rent & rates are combined fixed premises costs and if the tax element falls the other one will raise. I'm sure the system is bad and can be reformed, but this whole idea that it's rates that are driving shops out of business probably isn't true and serves more of as a convenient excuse for management to dodge the blame for running crappy shops.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 10:48 |
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https://twitter.com/Pale_0ntologist/status/1190996662921154561?s=19
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:oh right, that makes more sense. It does a bit but it doesn't change the fact that most specifically constructed shopping areas are designed to be hostile to people just spending time in them, they are designed to funnel people into a shop and then out again as soon as possible and given how utilitarian that is then online shopping will always have a bit of an edge. Revitalizing high streets means turning them into places that people go to without the intention of spending money but then do spend money when they arrive.
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