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i say swears online posted:how is it that low?? taco bell and dairy queen start at $12. i make $12.50/hr in a job that is only medium-hell I dunno that's the average for a front-line HEB worker according to Google. 
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We’ve had a close call with Covid as of yesterday evening. A worker was at a family gathering and near someone with a positive test. We’re awaiting his test results now. Fortunately, our contractor has agreed to pay for 2 weeks quarantine time per our new and improved Covid CBA. Y’all know the hosed up thing about it though, everyone who came into contact with the worker is allowed to stay on site, at least until the results come in. Why not pay everyone who could’ve been in the line of fire to take time off to get tested and await their results? Guidelines as far as they concern those of us in construction are kind of hosed up. We answer a questionnaire daily using an honor code, but that hasn’t eliminated someone bullshiting it, getting on site, then being told by management to go home because they appear sick. There’s no signs that job sites in Austin will be shuttered. Any job that was previously deemed “non-essential,” like whatever condos or office space is being built downtown have all lobbied the city and paid the right person to sign off on them as “essential.” Previously, “essential” sites included anything to do with UT, schools, utilities, hell even the soccer stadium got a pass.
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno that's the average for a front-line HEB worker according to Google. Their actual job postings are significantly higher than the random number Google told you.
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Jun 23, 2020 16:10
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Fray posted:Their actual job postings are significantly higher than the random number Google told you. All capital is theft from the excess value of workers' labor.
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PostNouveau posted:All capital is theft from the excess value of workers' labor. Cool.
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Sir Thats Gross posted:We’ve had a close call with Covid as of yesterday evening. A worker was at a family gathering and near someone with a positive test. We’re awaiting his test results now. Fortunately, our contractor has agreed to pay for 2 weeks quarantine time per our new and improved Covid CBA. Abbott overrode the city and made all construction "essential". Austin can't close any job sites. There were also reports a while ago that the city was getting very little uptake when they'd show up at construction sites offering free testing. People knew a positive result would put them out of work.
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Jun 23, 2020 16:35
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I appreciate the OpenTable metric of being an actual indicator of fear on the virus among what i assume is more affluent segments of society, and it's bad folks. https://twitter.com/ModeledBehavior/status/1275448148664541185
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I look forward to hearing in a couple weeks about how closing orders don’t work because those darned libs in Harris county tried but houston is still so bad.
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https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1275464115935272960 Goddamn it I wish Patrick was in cycle this year https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1275465425657176065 
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Jun 23, 2020 17:29
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PostNouveau posted:All capital is theft from the excess value of workers' labor. Yup https://reddit.com/r/HEB/comments/hdrfkk/first_day_with_bo_texas_pay/fvn04n3 Man I worked with corporate way back in the day and it's still a company and it's all bullshit fluff pieces
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Comrayn posted:I look forward to hearing in a couple weeks about how closing orders don’t work because those darned libs in Harris county tried but houston is still so bad. If you believe in yourself, you can find people saying that right now
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Jun 23, 2020 17:40
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Shifty Pony posted:Abbott overrode the city and made all construction "essential". Austin can't close any job sites. I didn’t realize that was an Abbott doing. Back in March or maybe April, my job closed for about a week, then two days in to it decided to reopen. I’ve never seen anything about free testing on the site I’m on. I think most contractors pay lip service until they’re actually faced with a legitimate issue and even that is usually suppressed quickly and quietly.
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Over here in Dallas, construction never stopped. Job sites shut down for about 1-2 weeks if they find a positive case among the workers, but that's about it.
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https://twitter.com/Tessa_Weinberg/status/1275476668656660482 WElp Also lucky if we see these numbers by 5 pm, they apparently have them much earlier than that
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Shifty Pony posted:HEB continues to own: I don't know if cancelling mask and distancing requirements until forced to do so owns.
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Wolff and the other judges should coordinate and give prosecuting individuals a shot. Word spreads the counties are hammering down on individuals themselves gets folks to either start staying home or whipped into shape. Months/years through the courts anyways.
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I lost respect for HEB when the Central Market locations in Dallas dropped their customer mask requirement the exact minute Abbott overruled them last month. They were just waiting for the moment they could allow Spreaders into their stores to make more money. Just like basically every grocery chain that isn't Costco, HEB are a bunch of greedy fucks who value sales over the health of their staff.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/Tessa_Weinberg/status/1275476668656660482 They probably wait until they have entered in all the other data like hospitalization per county, then push it as one update to the dashboard. I kind of prefer the batch approach over the piecemeal thing that other states are doing. All the bad news at once is easier on my stress levels than watching a number slowly tick up to doom all day long.
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ReindeerF posted:The easiest way to explain the coastal-facing Southeast Houston suburbs is when you get a job at the plant, you move to Pasadena. After a few years you move to Deer Park. Then, a few years later, you move to League City or Dickinson. If you make management, you move to somewhere in the Clear Lake area, or possibly Kemah / Seabrook. Now do Sugarland.
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Jun 23, 2020 18:34
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zoux posted:Also lucky if we see these numbers by 5 pm, they apparently have them much earlier than that Nice of him to give us a thrilling tease at the numbers instead of the actual number, "more than 5,000" is delightfully open-ended! I think/hope he's realizing that he now has to drastically ramp up the performative hand-wringing in order to prepare people for new restrictions in the coming week or two. The only alternative is to start suppressing the numbers outright, aka the Florida approach, but I don't think Abbott is quite as dumb as DeSantis and understands that would only delay and worsen the inevitable. I think.
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Sab0921 posted:Now do Sugarland. Weird to call out the most diverse part of Texas
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https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/1275488880326836225 Oh? If only there was a singular person who had the authority to enact such restrictions, do you know anyone like that Governor?
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/1275488880326836225 Well, I'd love to Greg, but you decided the gym I work at absolutely needed to open, so if I do that I wont be able to afford child support and will lose my son.
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DangerZoneDelux posted:Weird to call out the most diverse part of Texas Buddy you missed the whole discussion that led to it regarding diversity in suburbs.
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Anyone want to start setting odds on Texas being back on stay-at-home orders in two weeks? My wife's (unpaid) maternity leave is almost over and I'm reeeeeeeeaaaalllly not looking forward to being forced to put two young kids back into daycare right after the 4th of July.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Anyone want to start setting odds on Texas being back on stay-at-home orders in two weeks? My wife's (unpaid) maternity leave is almost over and I'm reeeeeeeeaaaalllly not looking forward to being forced to put two young kids back into daycare right after the 4th of July. It's fine, the case increases from 4th of july won't *really* get dangerous until mid-july. 
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Blotto_Otter posted:Anyone want to start setting odds on Texas being back on stay-at-home orders in two weeks? My wife's (unpaid) maternity leave is almost over and I'm reeeeeeeeaaaalllly not looking forward to being forced to put two young kids back into daycare right after the 4th of July. we wont. they cant back down.
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It will be up to each individual family member to determine whether or not it is in their best interest to stay home even though they will be homeless soon after. Because personal freedom.
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poemdexter posted:It will be up to each individual family member to determine whether or not it is in their best interest to stay home even though they will be homeless soon after. Because personal freedom. This and they can't afford/ don't want to keep paying out unemployment. If there's a stay at home order, people have "an excuse" to not work. If they choose to not work, whelp, not our problem, no check for you.
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Maybe I'm naively optimistic, but I think there is a point at which Texas would go back to stay-at-home orders - and I think the nature of exponential growth curves means we could get there faster than anyone expects. Tea party politics, hatred of unemployment benefits, chamber of commerce types hyperventilating about the economy... yes, that all makes it hard to imagine reaching that point again, but a whole lot of "I just wish Trump would get off Twitter"-type Republicans are gonna lose their appetite for the current death-cult politics once someone they know winds up in one of the refrigerator trailers parked out back of a hospital to hold overflow from the morgue. Abbott's got an instinct for self-preservation, and I think he realizes that the winds will start shifting as the body count starts rising. I think there is a political tipping point that we'll reach, I just have no idea exactly how many bodies will have to pile up outside of Texas hospitals before we get there.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Abbott's got an instinct for self-preservation, and I think he realizes that the winds will start shifting as the body count starts rising. I bolded the important part. Once the optics of hospitalizations get too bad, look for the goalposts to shift to deaths. We seem to be doing better at keeping people alive, and that will allow Abbott to continue the fiction of normalcy.
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Dan Patrick already moved the goal posts back to "theyre dying for the economy, the most noble of deaths" so no that isnt going to shake them
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smoobles posted:I lost respect for HEB when the Central Market locations in Dallas dropped their customer mask requirement the exact minute Abbott overruled them last month. They were just waiting for the moment they could allow Spreaders into their stores to make more money. One of my friends works at HEB, and she expressed how hard it is to enforce the mask requirements. It's left on employees at the door to enforce, and at some point the level of aggression and threats from customers becomes too much of a safety risk. Abbott already declared you can't fine individuals for not wearing a mask, so at most you could just call police for trespassing. I want mask requirements in indoor locations, but I think the problem is figuring out how to safely enforce it when a lot of folks who aren't already wearing masks are entitled and impulsive as poo poo.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Anyone want to start setting odds on Texas being back on stay-at-home orders in two weeks? My wife's (unpaid) maternity leave is almost over and I'm reeeeeeeeaaaalllly not looking forward to being forced to put two young kids back into daycare right after the 4th of July. We started splitting a nanny with our neighbor - it ends up around the same cost as daycare, and the circle of possible infections is much smaller - consider the nanny share.
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I would rather have Governor William J Lepetomane running through show in Austin at this point. Edit: here is a bar that I live close to that had their liquor license suspended for not following COVID rules. https://www.facebook.com/1380078932057522/posts/3223031877762209/?d=n 
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Sab0921 posted:We started splitting a nanny with our neighbor - it ends up around the same cost as daycare, and the circle of possible infections is much smaller - consider the nanny share. I might have to look into that. Did y'all use any online resources to find a nanny, or were you able to find one through family and friend connections? Also, we came thiiiis close to today's number being closer to 6k than 5k: https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1275533555536408578 e: Positivity rate up again too: https://twitter.com/JimVertuno/status/1275534435027386368 e 2: Buried headline is hospitalizations up 10.3% in a day, 7-day rolling average now 7.2% which implies hospitalizations doubling in less than 10 days. Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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saintonan posted:I bolded the important part. Once the optics of hospitalizations get too bad, look for the goalposts to shift to deaths. We seem to be doing better at keeping people alive, and that will allow Abbott to continue the fiction of normalcy. Can't keep people alive if there aren't any beds!!
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