If I were a censorship Nazi, I would have mod-bombed you. I'm not - I want the world to see what assholes like you look like in full bloom.
And you really need to learn some biology - the penis is NOT removed, just surgically reshaped and repositioned. The orgasmic capacity as well as the ability to pee both remain intact - which makes sense, seeing as they both start out the same in the womb irrespective of whether you're assigned male or female at birth.
But again, you continue to dodge the point of both the article and my original comment - doctor's notes are an invasion of privacy. Companies don't have a right to demand them for absences, and it wouldn't stand up in court seeing as what you do on your own time is your own business - whether that time would be paid at an hourly rate or as an allotment from your sick days.
But you're more interested in attacking me because I chose to follow the recommended medical treatment for a medical condition. You really do have a fetish with transsexual women, because you keep turning the conversation away from the main thread. It's like you're ADD, or that you can't stand that medical experts disagree with your stupid opinions.
Come on, park your imaginary privilege - we call it Universal Basic Income here - including in the story I had posted on the front page. Universal Basic Income returns more than 7x as many pages as Minimum Basic Income on google. A search of UBI turns up 2 references to Universal Basic Income on the first page; MBI returns 0 in the first 5 pages.
So by your own standard, you shouldn't get to talk about worker's rights. However, UBI has nothing to do with unions, which is what this article is about. You're also ignoring that people drawing a UBI probably will need every cent of it during a strike, so there won't be money left to pursue strike actions, which often require lawyers to defend workers arrested, and to take the company to court to recognize the union and to fight union-busting tactics, such as illegally shutting down operations at the affected location. UBI is not a panacea that magically solves everything - a basic income is just that - you can only afford the basics.
And it has nothing to do with this story. Nothing. These workers want to form unions for workers in specific trades. Given a choice between UBI maybe coming force in 20 years, or union wages next year, unions are far more relevant to these workers.
You keep attacking the messenger, but you still have been unable to attack my point, which is that doctor's notes are an invasion of privacy and only the weak give in. Must be because you're one of the weak.
But we already knew that. And no, I did not remove my genitals. That's what surgeons are for. And it's not removal - it's repurposing, which FYI creates a clitoris capable of multiple orgasms more often than natal women (4/5 vs 2/3).
But again, you're a weakling who's still a virgin - we've pretty much proven that, despite your braggadocio and your lack of knowledge.
Sure you do. The union won't back a thief. In this case, he was there a lot longer than me. They were not going to file a grievance over firing a repeat thief.
I was in the steelworker's union as a trucker, and that didn't stop me from fixing a thieving slacker's wagon. Didn't need to go through the union, but being part of it meant that when I took direct action, I was protected and he was fired. A helper stealing from customer loads makes all of us, but especially the driver, look bad.
It's the thief who was incompetent, short sighted, and greedy, not me. Try to screw me over to hide your actions, I owe you nothing. This applies in a lot of life's situations.
You've swallowed the purple flavor-aid. Union members don't like slackers any more than anyone else. Nobody wants to have to work harder to make up for lazy turds riding on their coat-tails. Union members are no exception.
Note that I qualified it by saying "compared to you". Anyone else is awesome compared to you. You're just an insecure virgin who everyone laughs at. I'd suggest you go get laid. Here's directions, customized for you:
1. Go in
2. Go out
3. There is no 3 - if you don't jism yourself at step 1 you will before step 3.
Since when do you actually sign a contract when you call them up to get tv, phone, internet, cable, or satellite tv? BTW - a contract signed after the fact - for example, on the back of a work order signifying that the work was done - is not legally binding unless you also sign the back separately. Bye-bye severance fees.
Most civilized jurisdictions have provisions that don't allow onerous provisions in contracts of adhesion (basically, contracts where it's just take-it-or-leave-it, no possibility to negotiate terms that are one-sided in favour of the provider). Even without such provisions, such contracts are a clear violation of public policy. Except, I guess, in oligarchies like the USA of Today, where, not matter who you vote for, you lose, business wins.
Maybe because, compared to you, I am freaking awesome. Though I'll be the first to admit that's a pretty low barrier to surmount. Even Schrodinger's cat is more consistent than you, especially since it's dead.
Don't waste your time. Even Trump has said that he likes his supporters to be semi-literate uneducated white trash, because he knows they are too stupid to realize when they are voting against their own interests. The see themselves in Trump - semi-literate, stupid, mentally deficient - and since he's all those things and more...
First-rate people surround themselves with first-rate people. Second-rate people surround themselves with third-rate people. You know from which pool Trump supporters belong to. Electing a guy for his "business acumen" who went bankrupt 6 (not 4) times, a low-brow racist thug... they really are like their leader - stupid.
Well, the US as a whole DOES look like an idiot. Remember Pottery Barn - "You broke it, you buy it." It was the US as a whole that gave rise to the conditions that got Trump elected. Now maybe you'll have the gumption to clean house and get rid of the ignorance that allows people like Trump to flourish, starting with the growing financial inequality, the willingness to spread ignorance and fake news for profit without holding people to account, moving towards a public healthcare system that lets all citizens feel that "we have your back" instead of being disenfranchised, reining in the insane education bubble and the even worse education debt bubble, the christian extremists, the gun nuts, etc.
But since it's guaranteed that won't happen, China will increasingly be THE world power.
When you do it, it's illegal unless you've paid the right politicians. When the government does it while taking your rights away, it's criminal to leak that info. The government want's power, ever more power, and power corrupts.
Just to clarify, I'm one of the 96% of the world who are looking at Trump from another country - certainly didn't vote for him, or any candidate, despite all the noise he's making about millions of fraudulent voters that other Republicans are saying never happened.
The Americans have been walking towards this debacle ever since they voted for Reagan. This is the logical end-game, and hopefully it will hurt them enough to learn a lesson or two - in particular, don't vote for someone stupider than you so that you can feel superior to your opponents. Look behind the rhetoric, and the curtain. Follow the money. Fix campaign financing to only allow humans to donate, and set small limits. Make corporate donations a criminal offense because you know it's companies buying laws.
And yet I don't spend all that much time any more. Just a few minutes here and there - I don't even use my mod points, which seem to come more and more often.
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If I were a censorship Nazi, I would have mod-bombed you. I'm not - I want the world to see what assholes like you look like in full bloom.
And you really need to learn some biology - the penis is NOT removed, just surgically reshaped and repositioned. The orgasmic capacity as well as the ability to pee both remain intact - which makes sense, seeing as they both start out the same in the womb irrespective of whether you're assigned male or female at birth.
But again, you continue to dodge the point of both the article and my original comment - doctor's notes are an invasion of privacy. Companies don't have a right to demand them for absences, and it wouldn't stand up in court seeing as what you do on your own time is your own business - whether that time would be paid at an hourly rate or as an allotment from your sick days.
But you're more interested in attacking me because I chose to follow the recommended medical treatment for a medical condition. You really do have a fetish with transsexual women, because you keep turning the conversation away from the main thread. It's like you're ADD, or that you can't stand that medical experts disagree with your stupid opinions.
Come on, park your imaginary privilege - we call it Universal Basic Income here - including in the story I had posted on the front page. Universal Basic Income returns more than 7x as many pages as Minimum Basic Income on google. A search of UBI turns up 2 references to Universal Basic Income on the first page; MBI returns 0 in the first 5 pages.
So by your own standard, you shouldn't get to talk about worker's rights. However, UBI has nothing to do with unions, which is what this article is about. You're also ignoring that people drawing a UBI probably will need every cent of it during a strike, so there won't be money left to pursue strike actions, which often require lawyers to defend workers arrested, and to take the company to court to recognize the union and to fight union-busting tactics, such as illegally shutting down operations at the affected location. UBI is not a panacea that magically solves everything - a basic income is just that - you can only afford the basics.
And it has nothing to do with this story. Nothing. These workers want to form unions for workers in specific trades. Given a choice between UBI maybe coming force in 20 years, or union wages next year, unions are far more relevant to these workers.
You keep attacking the messenger, but you still have been unable to attack my point, which is that doctor's notes are an invasion of privacy and only the weak give in. Must be because you're one of the weak.
But we already knew that. And no, I did not remove my genitals. That's what surgeons are for. And it's not removal - it's repurposing, which FYI creates a clitoris capable of multiple orgasms more often than natal women (4/5 vs 2/3).
But again, you're a weakling who's still a virgin - we've pretty much proven that, despite your braggadocio and your lack of knowledge.
It doesn't have to be that way - unless you're the type that rolls over at the first push, in which case you get what you deserve.
Sure you do. The union won't back a thief. In this case, he was there a lot longer than me. They were not going to file a grievance over firing a repeat thief.
Not one of the 22 definitions of MGI that I came across have anything to do with the topic. Sorry, but we're not mindreaders (yet) :-)
I was in the steelworker's union as a trucker, and that didn't stop me from fixing a thieving slacker's wagon. Didn't need to go through the union, but being part of it meant that when I took direct action, I was protected and he was fired. A helper stealing from customer loads makes all of us, but especially the driver, look bad.
It's the thief who was incompetent, short sighted, and greedy, not me. Try to screw me over to hide your actions, I owe you nothing. This applies in a lot of life's situations.
What did you do to change it? After all, you were a member, so you have a say.
So who's going to pay for it? Just the union members, and not society in general?
Or do you think that strike funds, picket lines, etc. just magically appear without some sacrifice by somebody somewhere?
If that were true, why would almost ALL employers do what they can to quash unions?
You've swallowed the purple flavor-aid. Union members don't like slackers any more than anyone else. Nobody wants to have to work harder to make up for lazy turds riding on their coat-tails. Union members are no exception.
1. Go in
2. Go out
3. There is no 3 - if you don't jism yourself at step 1 you will before step 3.
Since when do you actually sign a contract when you call them up to get tv, phone, internet, cable, or satellite tv? BTW - a contract signed after the fact - for example, on the back of a work order signifying that the work was done - is not legally binding unless you also sign the back separately. Bye-bye severance fees.
Broadband internet, cable tv, and cellular service are not essential services. First world problems.
Seems appropriate. The United States is a first-world country,
America is the first-world country.
Congratulations on the USA getting universal public health care!
They can't stop wireless ISPs that aren't related to the big telecoms. A Pringles can antenna can help if you're in a fringe area.
Probably wasn't even a real lawyer. The cost of the phone call from a real lawyer would make it not worth their time to fight.
..is stupid to allow.
anyone knows that. only americans don't.
Most civilized jurisdictions have provisions that don't allow onerous provisions in contracts of adhesion (basically, contracts where it's just take-it-or-leave-it, no possibility to negotiate terms that are one-sided in favour of the provider). Even without such provisions, such contracts are a clear violation of public policy. Except, I guess, in oligarchies like the USA of Today, where, not matter who you vote for, you lose, business wins.
Maybe because, compared to you, I am freaking awesome. Though I'll be the first to admit that's a pretty low barrier to surmount. Even Schrodinger's cat is more consistent than you, especially since it's dead.
Don't waste your time. Even Trump has said that he likes his supporters to be semi-literate uneducated white trash, because he knows they are too stupid to realize when they are voting against their own interests. The see themselves in Trump - semi-literate, stupid, mentally deficient - and since he's all those things and more ...
First-rate people surround themselves with first-rate people. Second-rate people surround themselves with third-rate people. You know from which pool Trump supporters belong to. Electing a guy for his "business acumen" who went bankrupt 6 (not 4) times, a low-brow racist thug ... they really are like their leader - stupid.
Well, the US as a whole DOES look like an idiot. Remember Pottery Barn - "You broke it, you buy it." It was the US as a whole that gave rise to the conditions that got Trump elected. Now maybe you'll have the gumption to clean house and get rid of the ignorance that allows people like Trump to flourish, starting with the growing financial inequality, the willingness to spread ignorance and fake news for profit without holding people to account, moving towards a public healthcare system that lets all citizens feel that "we have your back" instead of being disenfranchised, reining in the insane education bubble and the even worse education debt bubble, the christian extremists, the gun nuts, etc.
But since it's guaranteed that won't happen, China will increasingly be THE world power.
When you do it, it's illegal unless you've paid the right politicians. When the government does it while taking your rights away, it's criminal to leak that info. The government want's power, ever more power, and power corrupts.
We already knew republicans aren't smart. This shows it's not limited to one party.
Just to clarify, I'm one of the 96% of the world who are looking at Trump from another country - certainly didn't vote for him, or any candidate, despite all the noise he's making about millions of fraudulent voters that other Republicans are saying never happened.
The Americans have been walking towards this debacle ever since they voted for Reagan. This is the logical end-game, and hopefully it will hurt them enough to learn a lesson or two - in particular, don't vote for someone stupider than you so that you can feel superior to your opponents. Look behind the rhetoric, and the curtain. Follow the money. Fix campaign financing to only allow humans to donate, and set small limits. Make corporate donations a criminal offense because you know it's companies buying laws.
Only on the internet :-) And less every week because real life is becoming far more interesting than "virtual reality".
And yet I don't spend all that much time any more. Just a few minutes here and there - I don't even use my mod points, which seem to come more and more often.