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The Glumslinger posted:Didn't he legitimately get a job as a programmer for the federal government? ...this explains a lot.
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Billy Gnosis posted:Please don't be Mr Pickle's Nah its a small local spot. But its so gooood. Moron of an owner just couldn't help himself from posting dumb conservative crap on his business' facebook page.
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The Glumslinger posted:Didn't he legitimately get a job as a programmer for the federal government? i hope it was to maintain the old COBOL poo poo, because lol wow that stuff is the most spaghetti bullshit you ever could see. ramen block might be a better description
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Admiral Ray posted:i hope it was to maintain the old COBOL poo poo, because lol wow that stuff is the most spaghetti bullshit you ever could see. ramen block might be a better description Healthcare.gov. He was part of the rollout team. 
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The AB5 hammer dropped on the SB Nation sports-team blogs that are the origins of the Vox blogging fiefdom. You can see management's announcement and the ensuing comments section fracas, or the CNBC story that's a little less bullshit-filled. Either way, a lot of people who used to be just barely above unpaid fan bloggers are now back to being unpaid fan bloggers again. Not great for unestablished enthusiast writers in general.
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Or you know, Vox could have just hired them all on as full time employees with benefits like they deserve to be, and still made money hand over fist because paying for those people is a drop in the loving bucket for a gigantic media conglomerate. But nah let's blame California and ~burdensome regulations~ that have forced a poor, multi-billion dollar company to let hundreds of contractors they were underpaying go. 
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Not that it matters really but it’s also causing super shuttle to shut down. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/founded-in-1983-at-lax-supershuttle-is-going-out-of-business/2276142/ Also the rumors that the Disneyland shuttle from lax will also stop come the new year.
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MarcusSA posted:Not that it matters really but it’s also causing super shuttle to shut down. Nooooo SuperShuttle Eh gently caress em. Finish that new Metro line direct to the airport
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quote:SuperShuttle is owned by an affiliate of Blackstreet Capital Holdings, a private investment firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, court documents show. Blackstreet describes itself as specializing in acquiring small or mid-size firms "that are in out-of-favor industries or are undergoing some form of transition." lmao
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Nooooo SuperShuttle Lol see you in 2022 (we hope).
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btw, has anyone tried to check their registration using the LA county registration-checker thing? this one, right here, I mean. I just checked myself, my mom and my grandmother and we were all apparently no longer registered to vote. I haven't changed my address in years and my ma and grandma haven't in decades. Kinda sketch.
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Sydin posted:Or you know, Vox could have just hired them all on as full time employees with benefits like they deserve to be, and still made money hand over fist because paying for those people is a drop in the loving bucket for a gigantic media conglomerate. There’s not an absence of sports journalists, however. The Athletic seems to be doing well, and SB Nation and it’s ilk clearly isn’t murdering ESPN’s old guard. The problem with bills like this is it starts off from a place like, “career cabbies have been hurt the hardest by Uber letting every John and Jane Doe into their business and drive down their wages”, and applies it to every industry. When I was a kid, I wanted to write about video games. But either you were xXSephiroth69 on the GameFAQs message boards or you were one of the few people that worked at a select number of magazines. The freelancer blogging industry has allowed a lot of people to be able to get a position writing about something they love without it having to be their career job. This kind of legislation says nah, that hurts the labor value of guys who have been working for IGN since the PS2 days, I should go back to being an unpaid message board poster. If I can’t find someone willing to give me health insurance for my hot takes on Pokemon, I am only driving down the earnings potential of Having Hot Takes with my cheap punditry. I don’t think my opinions on games deserve a full time career with benefits and pensions, but I’d sure like something a little more guaranteed or with a little more visibility than running my own podcast and a Patreon. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Craptacular! posted:There’s not an absence of sports journalists, however. The Athletic seems to be doing well, and SB Nation and it’s ilk clearly isn’t murdering ESPN’s old guard. The problem with bills like this is it starts off from a place like, “career cabbies have been hurt the hardest by Uber letting every John and Jane Doe into their business and drive down their wages”, and applies it to every industry. You are straw-manning the bill by claiming it's about protecting the cab industry. While I'm sure the cab industry lobbied hard for it because driving up the price of an Uber or Lyft ride is seen as a benefit for them, the primary goal of AB5 was to prevent the exploitation of gig economy workers themselves. My roommate works Doordash as his primary job because trying to find a non-STEM job in the Bay Area is like pulling teeth, and he makes less than minimum wage for working 40+ hours of deliveries a week once he subtracts the cost of gas, the increased auto insurance premium you're forced to pay if you're working a job like Doordash/Uber, and the healthcare plan he has to pay for out of pocket. Meanwhile he's got not 401k, no pension, etc. From what I understand this is not an experience unique to him, and having one of these jobs as your sole source of income for a household is borderline impossible. It's usually just supplemental over another job. SB Nation is an example of how the independent contractor system has been abused. They have a ton of "freelancers" who are contributing a huge volume of articles to these sites, providing clicks and ad revenue for Vox, but not reaping any benefit besides a pittance per article. They have no job security. No benefits. No recourse if Vox decides tomorrow "actually nah we don't need your articles anymore." Sorry but if you're contributing more than 3 articles a month on average to a site, then you're probably helping drive that site's revenues and deserve to be compensated fairly for it! But of course companies are going to kick and scream and cry about how they can't afford this burdensome legislation because giving a couple hundred people actual pay and benefits means at the next shareholders meeting they'll have to explain to the board why profits only went up 0.4% last quarter when Wall Street predicted 0.5% growth. AB5 is good and I hope companies that continue to try to abuse independent contractor status get resultingly pasted.
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Sydin posted:Or you know, Vox could have just hired them all on as full time employees with benefits like they deserve to be, and still made money hand over fist because paying for those people is a drop in the loving bucket for a gigantic media conglomerate. Vox is owned (in part) by SkyNBCUniversalComcast so it's not like they couldn't just hire the writers if they wanted to.
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Hnnng. I just had a fantasy of gig platforms being collectively owned by a group of several local
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The goal is going to be to cause a little short term pain so that their readers will scream at the government about it. Long term, they're going to need content, they're going to need to hire people to do it. Or they're going to close. If their business model is stringing people along at piss-poor wages so that they can make a buck then my personal opinion is that they can gently caress off. Close already. Life will go on.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:btw, has anyone tried to check their registration using the LA county registration-checker thing? California had a whoopsie https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/california-voter-registration-dmv-automatic-14902100.php
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The goal is going to be to cause a little short term pain so that their readers will scream at the government about it. The only people I'm hearing complaining about the law right now freelance writers. There's 90,000 journalists *total* in the entire country. Uber "employs" millions of drivers.
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Jaxyon posted:California had a whoopsie that article says it was an isolated computer glitch in contra costa county and the poster said their voter registration got deleted from los angeles county. weird how there all these isolated computer glitches in unrelated voter registration systems across the state right before the primary election!!!
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Min wage is raising again on the first so prepare for a whole slew of these articles https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/12/15/restaurants-closing-minimum-wage-increase/amp/ "Oh no, my lovely business model that relies on paying slave wages doesn't work in Commifornia!!!" And of course no one is going to dig into the books of these restaurants and realize just how mismanaged they must have been that the wage ticking up a buck drives them out of business.
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"Small business owners are almost all universally insane" - Justin "donoteat01" Roczniak
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Shear Modulus posted:that article says it was an isolated computer glitch in contra costa county and the poster said their voter registration got deleted from los angeles county. weird how there all these isolated computer glitches in unrelated voter registration systems across the state right before the primary election!!! Yeah it sure is odd how many glitches we have that just happen to unregister people from the unnecessary voter suppression tactic that is voter registration. Wicked Them Beats posted:Min wage is raising again on the first so prepare for a whole slew of these articles Oh yeah seeing a lot of "california is the worst state to run a business in" posting from the worlds 5th largest economy.
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"Nobody wants to live in California, it's too full." - Yogi Berra
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Sydin posted:"Small business owners are almost all universally insane" - Justin "donoteat01" Roczniak Running a small business drives you insane. It really does. It's really incredibly hard and most people can't do it, and only the truly competent or truly evil (because they just gently caress over their employees for their own benefit) succeed at it. They say the #1 successful small business is one where the owner has identified something that was lacking in an industry that they themselves worked in prior and seek to fill it. Competence really does win.
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Min wage is raising again on the first so prepare for a whole slew of these articles I mean they do say that restaurants are a bad investment and incredibly low margin
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PG&E executives were being paid massive bonuses for years for "meeting safety goals."quote:State regulators have identified a years-long pattern of poor maintenance at PG&E that violated state regulations and led to the deadliest fire in California history, 2018's Camp fire, which killed 85 people. 
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You see if california just lowered minimum wage to 7.50 like THE REST OF US the free market would take care of the wild fires.
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Sydin posted:You are straw-manning the bill by claiming it's about protecting the cab industry. While I'm sure the cab industry lobbied hard for it because driving up the price of an Uber or Lyft ride is seen as a benefit for them, the primary goal of AB5 was to prevent the exploitation of gig economy workers themselves. My roommate works Doordash as his primary job because trying to find a non-STEM job in the Bay Area is like pulling teeth, and he makes less than minimum wage for working 40+ hours of deliveries a week once he subtracts the cost of gas, the increased auto insurance premium you're forced to pay if you're working a job like Doordash/Uber, and the healthcare plan he has to pay for out of pocket. Meanwhile he's got not 401k, no pension, etc. From what I understand this is not an experience unique to him, and having one of these jobs as your sole source of income for a household is borderline impossible. It's usually just supplemental over another job. The difference here is that Uber can't operate in California without changing its hiring practices to recognize its employees are actually employees if the California law sticks, and that's actually effective at creating a change; whereas SBNation can just hire freelancers in the other 49 states, so the SBNation paid bloggers in California are simply unemployed and (effectively) unemployable for their type of freelance work. You are speaking on behalf of people and claiming they'll be better off, when those people themselves are saying they are not and they're upset about it. California should tailor its legislation to recognize the actual fact that it's just one state in the country and that gig economy workers who work for online or distributed companies are hosed by AB5. The law has created a perverse incentive and the outcome is both predictable and certain. If you want good outcomes you have to not create perverse incentives with your laws.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The goal is going to be to cause a little short term pain so that their readers will scream at the government about it. Or they can just hire people from outside California to write about California sports teams. It’s not like you need a local perspective to write 200 words saying, “hmm, the Dodgers need a pitcher.” I get that doesn’t work for all gigs, but yeah I’m just generally depressed about the bill because I like having society having this endless trough of freelance work where you don’t have much of a screening process and work at your leisure. I would oppose being anyone’s employee, that makes me feel like I’m kept property to some degree, and I could never convince anyone to hire me anyway. CPColin posted:You're right, we should have UBI and UHC. Yes, absolutely. I’m not doing some sort of right wing troll job here. I don’t support this form of “labor exploitation” because I want to stan corporate profits, I do it because my ability to survive in the employee hiring model is hosed. It’s a part of the social contract in the adult world that I am an abject failure in, so work for hire gigs is what I got to raise above whatever the minimum standard of living is. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Hey, PG&E is back in bankruptcy court with a new deal after Gavin Newsome said he opposed the previous plan, lets see whats changedquote:SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric has reworked a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of deadly wildfires blamed on the utility to try to prevent it from unraveling after California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the company's financial rehabilitation plan. https://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/PG-E-California-wildfire-victims-rework-13-5B-14913771.php Oh
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The Glumslinger posted:Hey, PG&E is back in bankruptcy court with a new deal after Gavin Newsome said he opposed the previous plan, lets see whats changed how the gently caress can this kind of poo poo happen
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The Glumslinger posted:Hey, PG&E is back in bankruptcy court with a new deal after Gavin Newsome said he opposed the previous plan, lets see whats changed lol
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:how the gently caress can this kind of poo poo happen "public-private partnership"
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The Glumslinger posted:Hey, PG&E is back in bankruptcy court with a new deal after Gavin Newsome said he opposed the previous plan, lets see whats changed At this point you have to call their bluff and take them over, the amount of disrespect here is unreal.
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