They don't have to pay their workers for the time they're on strike. Seems to me you could just replace them.
Are we still talking about writers here?
I suspect that using an outsourcing company to bring in a bunch of H1bs workers to replace Hollywood show writers is not going to go well. But it would explain what happened to the endind of the show "Lost",
Anyway, there's a bunch of unsettled federal law that gets in the way of replacing striking workers - a boon for lawyers and no one else.
Oh God NO!!!
Last time they did this crap, we ended up with "reality tv"....if we bring in H1B, we'll have fscking "Bollywood" TV in the USA?!?!?
I have 15% going to a 401k (it includes matching from my company) but, even in a dual-income household, with mortgage and student loan payments we can't afford to put anything more towards retirement.
Is she putting 15% of her income into a 401K or IRA too?
If so, then you're not doing too badly if starting out this young.
Wage stagnation has taken the earnings of the middle class since the 70s. About the only thing keeping wages going up in that time has been union action and increases in the minimum wage.
Middle class folks are NOT minimum wage earners.
Pretty much by definition a middle class worker is waaaaaay above minimum wage.
The Minnesota law says they are required to have an opt out provision and can't deny service.
It needs to be OPT IN.....why do they have such a problem making it all opt IN, rather than opt out assuming you want your info gathered, analyzed and disseminated?
Which means that, five years ago, you have $300 of disposable income. Meanwhile, someone else who didn't had to spend $40 every six months on cheap boots that fell apart by the end of that time
Not really. It is called learning to live within your means, sacrifice and savings.
I know...old fashioned concepts but they still are valid.
I'm not poor (I've been the broke student starting out tho)....and I'm not wealthy, but I do upper middle income ok.
But even in my pooer days, as even today...I quite often have some things, some necessary like tools, other are plain outright toys...but in many if not most cases, they are of higher quality and build than what most of my peers have.
How?
Well, I tend to have a clear image of what is important to me. If I want "X"....I generally spend a LOT of time researching the shit out of it...I find what I consider to be the best in class. I see how much I have to save to get it, and decide on what things I currently spend money on, that I can do without for awhile so I can save at a more rapid timeline.
I buy what I want and I am happy, no buyers remorse....and hey, the best isn't always the most $$, but when it is, I don't cheap out.
Yes, some people come by and go "OOOooh you must have a lot of $$". Well, no that's not the case. I just drank a little less, didn't go out as much, and cut corners where I could to SAVE money....and also be patient to wait on a good deal when it pops up.
I try to have a little savings in a "toy" savings at all times. I put at least a tiny bit away...for that semi-impulse buy when a great deal pops up for a very limited opportunity time.
For the most part, I try to have cash on hand to buy most any of these things. Even then, I will often keep that cash standing by....and use a interest free payment on these things (mostly with Amazon store card 6-12 months). That way I pay things out and can keep that cash on hand in savings earning at least a tiny bit of interest.
But living within ones means, sacrifice....if you can exercise at least a modicum of self control...life can still be good.
I've been doing this since I was a young teen...doing neighborhood jobs saving for a year to get what at the end was a HIGH end skate board. I've been building my stereo since I was about 12yrs. What I have now blows away what others have....many of them have Dr. money which I certainly do not...yet, they are amazed at how my stereo sound. I've been building it for years by saving, swapping out parts as deals came along, etc.
It isn't hard and geez, I am NOT the most disciplined person around, but fiscally I do try to exercise a little common sense.
I've never seen a public school in the USA have a uniform for anything other than sports teams. Hell dress code has only gotten even laxer since I graduated in 2000.
I don't know where in the US you are located, but where I live, pretty much all the public schools require uniforms, it was put in to keep the poor kids from feeling bad next to the better dressed wealthier kids.
Just try to apply to my job without a masters or PhD in a relevant field.
Err....being qualified for a job is not considered part of overcoming a barrier to a job. Being qualified for a job is a GIVEN to even be considered for a job, geez.....please have some common sense.
Barriers as discussed above are artificial things keeping folks out that are all qualified for the same job or activity.
Those that don't have diversity tend to wither and die due to stagnation.
I"ve yet to see that ever.
I suppose if the business is catering to a specific market where no one is a part of or knows that market it could be detrimental (all white guys trying to see black women gerry curl, or whatever it is called).
On the other hand...throwing out or not hiring people due to their race and ONLY being interested in meeting quotas for diversity sake, I have seen tank a company's abilities.
I have no problem with hiring whomever is the best for the job.
Hell, why is it no one complains there aren't enough white jewish men playing in the NBA? I mean, you look at those teams....no diversity there, just a bunch of tall black guys, with the occasional token tall white boy in there.
1. Dress codes (outside of safety) have little to do with working hard and more to do with enforcing unnecessary conformity.
They also promote the image the company wants to project publicly in many cases.
I hate the dress codes too, but they can be there for a reason.
I was at a place that started out having all men wear ties, women were dresses, or if in pants they had to be pretty formal looking.
After a few years there, they relaxed the dress codes to much more casual when in the work place when not meeting or being seen by customers.
But if we had to meet with customers or they were coming into our building, we had to go back to ties and formal looks those days.
And hell, for the times it is for conformity, I'd think the snowflake generation would be used to wearing the "school uniform"...don't most public and private schools today require uniforms?
I block Google Analytics and most all other google pieces, without any problems. The only ones I generally have to let in is the occasional google api bits....but for the most part you can block most all Google bits and the sites will work just fine.
I'm in the USA, we just passed a law encouraging ISPs to pimp us out to the highest bidder. Controlling opt-in pages isn't enough anymore, so I added TrackMeNot, a noise generator.
Ooh..thanks!!
I'd not heard or TrackMeNot before, I'll look into it.
I was guessing the only thing else I could do was set up and start using Tor for browsing and/or sign up for a pay VPN service.....
...but my impression is that it's mostly media sharing - I'm not sure that's the aim you want to start out with for business use.
Well, the business is photography/videography...hence the Instagram thought of the first thing to try....
The thing with FB is, they require you to set up a personal account before you can set up a business account. And if you falsify on the personal one and they find out, you're off FB including the business account, which is the one I want in the first place.
So, was thinking of trying to set up a business only Instagram acct....but now, I'm rethinking that. Grrrr.
Get an electric smart. Correct number of seats, and cheaper, too!
Well, aside from it looking fugly.......I think I read its 0-60mph times are like 11+ seconds???
Nope..I want a performance car, that looks good too. I'd like something like the original Tesla Roadster...or something in that ballpark for looks and performance but in the range of a Corvette price.
I don't really give a damn about pollution or mileage, but if I could get good looks and performance in an electric car for a reasonable price, I'd do it...
Range is a big deal too...as that I need to be able to bug out of NOLA when hurricanes come this way and often that means long times in traffic if you don't leave quite early enough, on a HOT summer day where AC is a necessity.
That's going to take a while. They'll be fortunate to get it released at the promised $35k - although they were promising $30k some years ago and then quietly upped it.
There are more than a few Tesla-bashers who complain extensive auto experience that have been saying that selling the base model at even $45k would be barely profitable, if at all.
I'd not be interested in it even at $30K...has too many seats in the car.
I'm waiting for a Tesla sports car again..if they could put out a Roadster type out again, in the ballpark range of a Corvette....THEN I"d be interested. Until then, its just a speedy "family" car which I have no interest in....
If this thing is spinning around, making growling sounds vaguely like Mel Blanc.....it might just be a Tasmanian Devil....and would best be left alone, they'll eat ANYTHING, including wabbits......
I believe the Costco balls were actually rebranded Nike balls. So the company that makes the balls has the rights to make the ball and had the right under Nike. Costco is only selling the balls.
I was guessing the same thing.
I"m not sure who makes all of the Costco Kirkland booze...but it sure is good.
Their gin I"m currently trying out is very well made IMHO.
And the amateurs will do/buy anything to improve their game. I do some work at a country club and the schlock on sale to golfers makes global warming skeptics look like Einstein.
So, Titleist are the Monster Cables of the golfing/country club set....?
Then again I live in a suburb of the Greater Los Angeles Area in the People's Republic of California, which keeps a lot of the deadbeat states afloat through our large and for-now voluntary donations to the federal guv'mit.
Say howdy to Gov. Moonbeam for us all....and enjoy that abundance of taxes the STATE itself collects from you....it isn't the feds running you into the ground, it is your own states messed up priorities.
All the businesses leaving CA for TX are happily waving goodbye to CA...it used to be the land of milk and honey.
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Oh God NO!!!
Last time they did this crap, we ended up with "reality tv"....if we bring in H1B, we'll have fscking "Bollywood" TV in the USA?!?!?
Oh, the humanities!!!
Is she putting 15% of her income into a 401K or IRA too?
If so, then you're not doing too badly if starting out this young.
Middle class folks are NOT minimum wage earners.
Pretty much by definition a middle class worker is waaaaaay above minimum wage.
It needs to be OPT IN.....why do they have such a problem making it all opt IN, rather than opt out assuming you want your info gathered, analyzed and disseminated?
Not really. It is called learning to live within your means, sacrifice and savings.
I know...old fashioned concepts but they still are valid.
I'm not poor (I've been the broke student starting out tho)....and I'm not wealthy, but I do upper middle income ok.
But even in my pooer days, as even today...I quite often have some things, some necessary like tools, other are plain outright toys...but in many if not most cases, they are of higher quality and build than what most of my peers have.
How?
Well, I tend to have a clear image of what is important to me. If I want "X"....I generally spend a LOT of time researching the shit out of it...I find what I consider to be the best in class. I see how much I have to save to get it, and decide on what things I currently spend money on, that I can do without for awhile so I can save at a more rapid timeline.
I buy what I want and I am happy, no buyers remorse....and hey, the best isn't always the most $$, but when it is, I don't cheap out.
Yes, some people come by and go "OOOooh you must have a lot of $$". Well, no that's not the case. I just drank a little less, didn't go out as much, and cut corners where I could to SAVE money....and also be patient to wait on a good deal when it pops up.
I try to have a little savings in a "toy" savings at all times. I put at least a tiny bit away...for that semi-impulse buy when a great deal pops up for a very limited opportunity time.
For the most part, I try to have cash on hand to buy most any of these things. Even then, I will often keep that cash standing by....and use a interest free payment on these things (mostly with Amazon store card 6-12 months). That way I pay things out and can keep that cash on hand in savings earning at least a tiny bit of interest.
But living within ones means, sacrifice....if you can exercise at least a modicum of self control...life can still be good.
I've been doing this since I was a young teen...doing neighborhood jobs saving for a year to get what at the end was a HIGH end skate board. I've been building my stereo since I was about 12yrs. What I have now blows away what others have....many of them have Dr. money which I certainly do not...yet, they are amazed at how my stereo sound. I've been building it for years by saving, swapping out parts as deals came along, etc.
It isn't hard and geez, I am NOT the most disciplined person around, but fiscally I do try to exercise a little common sense.
I really like the increased content, but ugh..the people that came with it.
But that's what you get. If you've ever had a job that deals with the general public, you quickly realize how fscked in the head 90% of the public is.
I don't know where in the US you are located, but where I live, pretty much all the public schools require uniforms, it was put in to keep the poor kids from feeling bad next to the better dressed wealthier kids.
Err....being qualified for a job is not considered part of overcoming a barrier to a job. Being qualified for a job is a GIVEN to even be considered for a job, geez.....please have some common sense.
Barriers as discussed above are artificial things keeping folks out that are all qualified for the same job or activity.
I"ve yet to see that ever.
I suppose if the business is catering to a specific market where no one is a part of or knows that market it could be detrimental (all white guys trying to see black women gerry curl, or whatever it is called).
On the other hand...throwing out or not hiring people due to their race and ONLY being interested in meeting quotas for diversity sake, I have seen tank a company's abilities.
I have no problem with hiring whomever is the best for the job.
Hell, why is it no one complains there aren't enough white jewish men playing in the NBA? I mean, you look at those teams....no diversity there, just a bunch of tall black guys, with the occasional token tall white boy in there.
They also promote the image the company wants to project publicly in many cases.
I hate the dress codes too, but they can be there for a reason.
I was at a place that started out having all men wear ties, women were dresses, or if in pants they had to be pretty formal looking.
After a few years there, they relaxed the dress codes to much more casual when in the work place when not meeting or being seen by customers.
But if we had to meet with customers or they were coming into our building, we had to go back to ties and formal looks those days.
And hell, for the times it is for conformity, I'd think the snowflake generation would be used to wearing the "school uniform"...don't most public and private schools today require uniforms?
I block Google Analytics and most all other google pieces, without any problems. The only ones I generally have to let in is the occasional google api bits....but for the most part you can block most all Google bits and the sites will work just fine.
Anyone know off hand if these images/audio/video are free to use by the public, even commercially without fees or royalties?
Ooh..thanks!!
I'd not heard or TrackMeNot before, I'll look into it.
I was guessing the only thing else I could do was set up and start using Tor for browsing and/or sign up for a pay VPN service.....
I was hoping for something between the $55K-$80K range....for a Tesla sports car.
Well, the business is photography/videography...hence the Instagram thought of the first thing to try....
The thing with FB is, they require you to set up a personal account before you can set up a business account. And if you falsify on the personal one and they find out, you're off FB including the business account, which is the one I want in the first place.
So, was thinking of trying to set up a business only Instagram acct....but now, I'm rethinking that. Grrrr.
Well, aside from it looking fugly.......I think I read its 0-60mph times are like 11+ seconds???
Nope..I want a performance car, that looks good too. I'd like something like the original Tesla Roadster...or something in that ballpark for looks and performance but in the range of a Corvette price.
I don't really give a damn about pollution or mileage, but if I could get good looks and performance in an electric car for a reasonable price, I'd do it...
Range is a big deal too...as that I need to be able to bug out of NOLA when hurricanes come this way and often that means long times in traffic if you don't leave quite early enough, on a HOT summer day where AC is a necessity.
I'd not be interested in it even at $30K...has too many seats in the car.
I'm waiting for a Tesla sports car again..if they could put out a Roadster type out again, in the ballpark range of a Corvette....THEN I"d be interested. Until then, its just a speedy "family" car which I have no interest in....
I didn't realize fucking Facebook owned them....ugh.
I do not want to give FB any personal information....
If this thing is spinning around, making growling sounds vaguely like Mel Blanc.....it might just be a Tasmanian Devil ....and would best be left alone, they'll eat ANYTHING, including wabbits......
I was guessing the same thing.
I"m not sure who makes all of the Costco Kirkland booze...but it sure is good.
Their gin I"m currently trying out is very well made IMHO.
So, Titleist are the Monster Cables of the golfing/country club set....?
But just because his sexual proclivity is into BDSM and some wild fantasy stuff....it isn't ok?
Seriously...why do they draw a line at one thing and not another?
As long as both are legal activities, why should someone be fired for whatever gets them off in the bedroom AFTER they leave the workplace?
Say howdy to Gov. Moonbeam for us all....and enjoy that abundance of taxes the STATE itself collects from you....it isn't the feds running you into the ground, it is your own states messed up priorities.
All the businesses leaving CA for TX are happily waving goodbye to CA...it used to be the land of milk and honey.
Err...so, what do you do when you're *finished* fucking your woman....?
Hell, I've often caught the scores on ESPN looking over her head while she was giving head...etc.
Well, I never saw that Belle fucked him till he was a human prince again...?