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Klyith posted:lol @ background check requirement prominently on the front page When Amazon drivers are criminals, they steal from Amazon.
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As some of you may know, Uber pulled out of Denmark a few months ago. Before pulling out they had been hoping for the lolbertarian minister of transportation to push through Uber-friendly taxi legislation (but this did not ultimately happen). Meanwhile, Uber drivers were being prosecuted and Uber grandly promised to pay for their lawyers and any fines they might incur and that they should just keep driving. Now Uber is long gone and the tax service has come to possess extensive records from Uber HQ in the Netherlands, detailing how much each driver has earned and how many trips they've driven, etc. It is expected that the drivers will be prosecuted and that the fines might come to ~$800 million in total (it will probably be somewhat less as each driver will most likely get a discount). I wonder if Uber will keep their word and compensate the drivers...
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Jul 21, 2017 18:26
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In Sweden they just let the drivers they had conned into committing tax fraud for peanuts eat poo poo so I doubt it.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:13
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It makes sense for the government to go after the drivers. They broke the law, obviously! - said probably some idiot on the internet. Really lovely that these people are struggling to survive and getting hosed form both directions.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:17
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Is there any English language source on why Danish Uber drivers would have committed tax fraud by driving for Uber?
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Jul 21, 2017 22:27
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Randler posted:Is there any English language source on why Danish Uber drivers would have committed tax fraud by driving for Uber? I would assume it's how any contractor commits tax fraud. They just didn't report their income because they thought no one would know.
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Jul 21, 2017 22:45
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Per posted:As some of you may know, Uber pulled out of Denmark a few months ago. Before pulling out they had been hoping for the lolbertarian minister of transportation to push through Uber-friendly taxi legislation (but this did not ultimately happen). Meanwhile, Uber drivers were being prosecuted and Uber grandly promised to pay for their lawyers and any fines they might incur and that they should just keep driving. MiddleOne posted:In Sweden they just let the drivers they had conned into committing tax fraud for peanuts eat poo poo so I doubt it. At work yesterday I had a guy come in and talk to us for a while (just a bored customer, we were slow so it was no problem). He's starting to lose his sight and so uses Uber to get around our midsize college town and mentioned that Lyft had finally come to town and I was really excited about that. He asked me why I hated Uber so much and I gave him a solid bunch of reasons ranging from "corporate culture of sexism/harassment" to "they give zero shits about their drivers" to "they probably jacked Google tech". This will be a nice addition to that long list of reasons. gently caress Uber with the world's longest, sharpest stick.
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Jul 21, 2017 23:00
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Arsenic Lupin posted:People in the Bay Area (at least) have been getting shipments through Amazon Logistics for years. It sucks. No tracking numbers, no ability to track. They've been delivering in my area (Philadelphia suburbs) for around a year, and do most Amazon deliveries for me now. They are terrible. I've had packages delivered to the wrong address, been called multiple times asking where my delivery address (a UPS store that I have an account with) is, packages lost, packages delivered late... They do however have tracking numbers and you can sorta track via Amazon's order status page.
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Jul 22, 2017 00:07
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From the r/relationships thread (?(!!)):A Wizard of Goatse posted:count the incredibly retarded decisions that lead to this thread existing: A Wizard of Goatse posted:you can't move that; that's a load-bearing intern
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Jul 22, 2017 03:25
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3 year intern? 
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Jul 22, 2017 03:33
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Randler posted:3 year intern? Look, we value you being here and you do tremendous work, but we can't give you even actual part time positioning and pay here at stark up jokes INC until you are pranked so hard you get into money trouble.
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Jul 22, 2017 03:37
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He was the intern three summers in a row, he didn’t work there for three years straight.
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Jul 22, 2017 04:42
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Gmail is fine for personal use, but I had to switch to it recently for business and god is its functionality pathetic in many, many ways. Although I'm sure a good part of that is our incompetent IT. But ironically, gmail search is loving horrific.
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Jul 22, 2017 04:46
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Randler posted:3 year intern? Not uncommon for alternating semester coops or just every summer starting as a sophomore.
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Jul 22, 2017 04:50
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Absurd Alhazred posted:From the r/relationships thread (?(!!)): Tell Jake, "Work it out with Jenna, and we will offer you a full time position. Otherwise, don't show up for the rest of the summer, and I would recommend not putting this company as a reference."
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Jul 22, 2017 11:04
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haha yeah no jenna should have offered the money out of pocket until he could pay her back when his check came in
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You know, people laugh at the bureaucratic horrors of the megacorp world (anti-harassment training slideshows, formal complaint policies, dress codes). I know I do. Then you look at companies where they just wing everything and assume it's all fine because we're all pals here... Large cap companies get good lawyers and eventually understand that they have to cover their asses 500 ways. Sure, the rules are different if you're privately held, but there are still good reasons why companies eventually have to become boring and bureaucratic if they want to survive.
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Neon Noodle posted:You know, people laugh at the bureaucratic horrors of the megacorp world (anti-harassment training slideshows, formal complaint policies, dress codes). I know I do. You can outsource most of your HR process, including payroll, to an outside company these days, even as a startup. They'll make sure to get those paychecks out for your on time, even if your money flow is a bit irregular, to a point. There's no excuse for handing that over to your pal, "person I know who will do it for peanuts."
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Kim Jong Il posted:Gmail is fine for personal use, but I had to switch to it recently for business and god is its functionality pathetic in many, many ways. Although I'm sure a good part of that is our incompetent IT. But ironically, gmail search is loving horrific. What did you switch from? We just went from gmail to Outlook, and it's loving terrible.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:You can outsource most of your HR process, including payroll, to an outside company these days, even as a startup. They'll make sure to get those paychecks out for your on time, even if your money flow is a bit irregular, to a point. There's no excuse for handing that over to your pal, "person I know who will do it for peanuts." It wasn't irregular cash flow though, it sounds like the intern was working for an hourly wage, and so he had to get timesheets in to get paid. That's not unreasonable, what's wrong is that their person who does payroll thought it would be funny to delay his pay, and happened to pick the absolute worst week to do it. In that situation, the intern did nothing wrong until after his paycheck was delayed, and it sounds like the company is too small to keep them separated. This is the kind of call you have to make as an owner/manager, and it's the type of situation that you have to take as a learning experience to make sure it never happens again. There are about a dozen ways this could have been avoided, but now it's too late unless the dude changes his mind. a foolish pianist posted:What did you switch from? We just went from gmail to Outlook, and it's loving terrible. Do you have an actual Exchange server, or are you using Office 365? Or are you just using Outlook as a front end e-mail client for a hosted e-mail?
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Kim Jong Il posted:Gmail is fine for personal use, but I had to switch to it recently for business and god is its functionality pathetic in many, many ways. Although I'm sure a good part of that is our incompetent IT. But ironically, gmail search is loving horrific. Gmail is very good (for my needs) except for the search. How could google gently caress that up, its amazing
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Per posted:As some of you may know, Uber pulled out of Denmark a few months ago. Before pulling out they had been hoping for the lolbertarian minister of transportation to push through Uber-friendly taxi legislation (but this did not ultimately happen). Meanwhile, Uber drivers were being prosecuted and Uber grandly promised to pay for their lawyers and any fines they might incur and that they should just keep driving. As a surprise to no one. Denmark is actually rather highly regulated and one can just look at cross-border taxi travels, where Swedish taxi drivers are only allowed to pick up customers at a certain zone at Kastrup. There were occasions where Swedish taxi drivers tried to pick up customers in Copenhagen and were hunted by danish taxi drivers.
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:It makes sense for the government to go after the drivers. They broke the law, obviously! - said probably some idiot on the internet. I dunno. The sleaziness of Uber is very public. It's not like these drivers were blindsided. It's like taking a contract with Donald Trump at this point. If you're not getting your payment up front it's kinda your own fault when he inevitably stiffs you. I mean, what were the driver's logic: Uber will gently caress everyone but me, the loyal contractor?
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Shooting Blanks posted:Do you have an actual Exchange server, or are you using Office 365? Or are you just using Outlook as a front end e-mail client for a hosted e-mail? It's Office 365. We were a startup using google stuff, but Nokia bought us in February. The change has been painful.
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Cardiac posted:As a surprise to no one. Trans-Border Taxi Turf War, now on Steam Early Access.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Gmail is very good (for my needs) except for the search. How could google gently caress that up, its amazing To be fair, search in Outlook is pretty bad too.
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i'll just shamelessly promote this here since someone else posted it in the trump thread https://twitter.com/donoteat1/status/888815802450944000
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Trans-Border Taxi Turf War, now on Steam Early Access. I would totally play this game.
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Weatherman posted:I would totally play this game. Only if there are tire irons and the ability to put water in gastanks.
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a foolish pianist posted:What did you switch from? We just went from gmail to Outlook, and it's loving terrible. Normal Outlook which had its flaws, it takes 10 years to load with my gigantic PST file. But search actually works, the calendar isn't a pathetic joke, and I could actually read my emails without having to deal with the idiotic trash security software our IT uses.
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Thundercracker posted:I dunno. The sleaziness of Uber is very public. It's not like these drivers were blindsided. It's like taking a contract with Donald Trump at this point. If you're not getting your payment up front it's kinda your own fault when he inevitably stiffs you. Actually I imagine their logic was more like "well poo poo I can't find a job and this is better than being homeless" like a lot of people's logic when they end up doing shady poo poo.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Only if there are tire irons and the ability to put water in gastanks. *takes out notepad* So I have you down for paid DLC tire irons and microtransaction water. Go on.
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donoteat posted:i'll just shamelessly promote this here since someone else posted it in the trump thread A good article as far as blowing up hyperloop on the capacity issue, which I don't think they've ever denied per se but they certainly don't advertise. I think how they'd frame it is that they're trying to compete with airplanes, not commuter trains. Incredibly dumb to then draw the conclusion that philly and baltimore will be super gentrified by a wave of hyperloop commuters. You've just proven that the thing can only carry ten thousand people per day. A few thousand rich new yorkers are not gonna displace an entire city by themselves. If hyperloop is built and is successful, it'll start out more like the concorde than anything else. The real question will be the operating and maintenance costs. The concorde was supposed to be the first wave of what would eventually be supersonic flight for everyone. Turned out the ongoing costs were too high and they couldn't make their money back even charging exorbitant prices. If hyperloop is the same, it'll fail. If it turns out to be sustainable, you can always dig more tunnels. Then your model is more like the japanese high-speed rail network, which also started out small and very expensive (it's still kinda expensive).
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It only takes a few hundred people to gentrify the heck out of a neighborhood, let alone a few thousand. But also the entire hyperloop concept is essentially impossible to build already over long distances, due to the extreme amount of power you need to expend to keep the partial vacuum throughout hundreds of miles of tubes, as well as the tons of maintenance that would need to be done to keep up the various related seals and poo poo. And that's to say nothing about the practically of the vehicles being powered, or keeping people from getting inured by the purported acceleration and deceleration involved, or tons of other things. Anyway: "you can always dig more tunnels"? Really? We're talking tunnels that could likely take 20 years to excavate the first pair of tubes judging by recent high tech tunnel projects with similar constraints, like the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Plus it's not like there's infinite space on the reasonable paths between station locations, or infinite room to expand the stations and associated infrastructure. You might need to spend trillions just to boost potential ridership up to the actual capacity of existing infrastructure between all the construction, real estate costs, and maintenance. fishmech fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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The entire premise behind hyperloop and the ditch-digging company is that those costs can be reduced by several orders of magnitude. Which I'm not saying I believe is true. SpaceX is in the process of overturning their industry, but it's not like there weren't plenty of other people looking at space launch circa 2005 and saying "this sucks". It was pretty obviously a cartel situation with a minimum of competition or innovation happening, and the world's biggest customer (the us gov't) totally captured by the lobby. Elon happened to have the money and chutzpah to do something about it. Good for him. I don't know that there are a lot of geotechnical engineers sitting around bemoaning the state of tunnel boring at parties, and imagining how much better it would be if only Big Drill didn't have everyone over a barrel.
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Klyith posted:The entire premise behind hyperloop and the ditch-digging company is that those costs can be reduced by several orders of magnitude. I can believe that a lot of geotechnical engineers can be boring at parties.
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Klyith posted:Incredibly dumb to then draw the conclusion that philly and baltimore will be super gentrified Uhhh they already are getting super gentrified? Like Fishtown and Northern Liberties border the projects and they're basically just as expensive (if not moreso) than Center City at this point.
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Klyith posted:The entire premise behind hyperloop and the ditch-digging company is that those costs can be reduced by several orders of magnitude. There's shitloads of competition for being able to build tunnels fast and cheap, it just doesn't work out. Actually moving hundreds of miles by a 5 meter diameter length of soil and rock is going to take time and money, there's no way around that. Also I have no idea what you mean by no competition in space launches or overturning an industry. You could do cheap launches over at the former Soviet facilities and usually competitive priced launches from the ESA's bases. Rich people gave the Russians a cool few million and put themselves into an actual space station for days at a time.
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A big flaming stink posted:Uhhh they already are getting super gentrified? Like Fishtown and Northern Liberties border the projects and they're basically just as expensive (if not moreso) than Center City at this point. no this is gonna be ultra-secret double gentrfication! the pure and innocent native culture of Philladelphia and Baltimore will be driven out or appropriated by ravenous hyperlooping New Yorkers. The only place you'll be able to get a cheesesteak or crabcake will be in trendy NY-fusion restaurants, and it will be served by a guy with a brooklyn accent and a yankees hat! fishmech posted:Also I have no idea what you mean by no competition in space launches or overturning an industry. You could do cheap launches over at the former Soviet facilities and usually competitive priced launches from the ESA's bases. Rich people gave the Russians a cool few million and put themselves into an actual space station for days at a time. Hahaha no you are talking out of your rear end. ESA launch was plenty expensive. Russian was cheaper but not that cheap. Offset by things like transport, higher insurance, and the fact that the US govt can't use a russian launch for most things. The cost rich dudes paid to go to the ISS has zero bearing on any real costs. And that was $20-40 million btw. Klyith fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Klyith posted:Elon happened to have the money and chutzpah to do something about it. Good for him. You know this guy personally or what?
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