Wal-Mart officials said they cracked down on that practice after an overnight stocker at a store in Savannah, Ga., collapsed and died in 1988. Paramedics could not get into the store soon enough because the employees inside could not open the fire door or front door, and there was no manager with a key.
''We certainly do not do that now,'' Ms. Williams said. ''It's not been that way for a long time.''
Apparently these are people who fear losing their jobs. Probably they have themselves and family members to support and don't think that they can easily get another job if they lose the one they have.
As usual, there was no manager with a key to let Mr. Rodriguez out. The fire exit, he said, was hardly an option -- management had drummed into the overnight workers that if they ever used that exit for anything but a fire, they would lose their jobs.
And leaving could also jeopardize the jobs of their coworkers:
Mr. Rodriguez acknowledged that the seemingly obvious thing to have done after breaking his ankle was to leave by the fire door, but he and two dozen other Wal-Mart and Sam's Club workers said they had repeatedly been warned never to do that unless there was a fire. Leaving for any other reason, they said, could jeopardize the jobs of the offending employee and the night supervisor.
I don't know if Walmart still does this:
Wal-Mart officials said they cracked down on that practice after an overnight stocker at a store in Savannah, Ga., collapsed and died in 1988. Paramedics could not get into the store soon enough because the employees inside could not open the fire door or front door, and there was no manager with a key.
''We certainly do not do that now,'' Ms. Williams said. ''It's not been that way for a long time.''
This type of employee abuse should have been nipped in the bud by federal, state, or local labor authorities, but apparently it wasn't.
Interestingly that article you link to was published in February 1930, right near the start of the "Great Depression" and states that "These studies were supported in part by a research grant from the Institute of American Meat Packers". They were probably scared stiff that nobody would be left with enough pennies in their pocket to buy meat.
You want smart people? "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. - Albert Einstein in a letter to "Vegetarian Watch-Tower", 27 December 1930
Funny thing about this world, sometimes a stranger (in this case a dog) can indeed save your life.
Often it's the dog's own family, but sometimes it's someone who just happened to need help and was lucky enough that their distress was noticed by a dog.
Pet dogs generally don't have parasites in their gut and if they do pick something up (generally by drinking from a standing body of water like a lake) their owner will soon notice the symptoms and take them to the vet for treatment.
Don't be so afraid of dogs. Dogs have lived with, worked and cared for humans for thousands of years and the rewards to humans have more than exceeded the drawbacks (like occasionally stepping in some poop).
Can we do the same to motor vehicle operators whose engines spew cancer and asthma causing exhaust into the air and splatter carcinogen tainted oil onto the roads?
In NYC, in the late 1950s, a small soda bottle had a 2-cent deposit and a large soda bottle had a 5-cent deposit. In 2015, all soda bottles have 5-cent deposit. Think about the inflation from 1950s to 2015 and wrap your head around the fact that it basically did not touch bottle (and can) deposits. The streets here always have broken glass because slobs just toss their empty beer and wine bottles. The roads are cleaned regularly by the city sanitation department but the sidewalks are not; each apartment, business storefront, or home owner is responsible for cleaning their own little portion of the sidewalk. Guess how well that works out.
More likely the price gouger would have thought: "I can quickly buy out all the portable generators at the nearby Home Depot, Lowes, Sears, Target, Walmart, and Kmart stores and have the market here all to myself when people realize that there's a hurricane coming."
Fine. I can't take a picture of the food that was served to me.
But I can post the result after my digestive system has recast the original thereby creating a derivative work, right? That should make for a nice addition to any restaurant review.
Goddammit, the insurance companies are really ripping us off. Why are they charging so much more for car insurance than they do for standing on the sidewalk insurance?
“Delivery Liability” - If you deliver, put this in ice burg-sized chunks. No further discussion needed. Do not try to use your personal auto policy to cover business exposures. If you use your auto in business, make sure that you either have a business auto policy or that the insurance company knows exactly what you do with the auto. Remember, they have been at this a lot longer than you. They can, and will, see through any subterfuge you can dream up.
Did the study exclude the possibility that DUI arrests dramatically decreased not because of the availability of Uber but instead because of reduced police enforcement?
I'm asking this in all seriousness because traffic enforcement in NYC where I live has become nearly nonexistent. So the number of tickets for "failure to yield right of way", "reckless driving", passing a red light, and the rest of the traffic violations has "dramatically decreased" in NYC. But the number of drivers who do these things has increased to the point where it's not only dangerous to ride a bike or to cross the street, with the light, in a crosswalk (one is likely to get hit by a car making a turn on that same green light) but there are numerous instances of vehicles plowing into pedestrians on the sidewalk and crashing through the windows of stores and restaurants. Our mayor Bill deBlasio initiated a "Vision Zero" campaign to control this traffic carnage but it hasn't really accomplished much to date.
I'm pretty sure that most personal insurance policies specifically exclude coverage for damages incurred if the vehicle is used as a business (as opposed to using it to get to and from a business).
I guess you haven't been following the news lately. A 30 year old teacher who had sex with her 17 year old male student was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Just for example.
Here in beautiful downtown Manhattan the majority of men who urinate in the street do not use a wall but instead step into the doorway of an apartment building or storefront and urinate into that. It gives them a comforting false sense of privacy (people walking by see only their back).
This is part of their campaign against NYC's mayor Bill de Blasio. The NY Post hates him. Or at least Rupert Murdoch does. Apparently they want the mayor to make the homeless folks magically disappear.
I wonder the very same thing about the signs that are placed just before a speed bump (typically on a street that runs near a school).
Instead of letting it be an unpleasant surprise that might actually modify reckless drivers' behavior and get them to drive more carefully and slowly, they are presented with a sign saying BUMP in big letters thus telling them that they can drive however they want until they approach such a sign.
I noticed that you wrote Also, we're talking conversation here, not characters. and realized from your first sentence that you were familiar with the simplified character problem with the word "Gan". However despite your statement that "Gan" would never be used for "it's nice to talk to you." we can't know whether it was or was not used in the reported case because, understandably enough, the very short "Network World" article doesn't provide the actual words that were used. Maybe the speaker did use "Gan".
And although "we're talking conversation here, not characters", my first thought was that the translation software did something like:
1. Capture sound of word
2. Determine what character the word corresponds to
3. Translate that character
In which case the "collapsed" simplified character problem would indeed be pertinent.
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And leaving could also jeopardize the jobs of their coworkers:
I don't know if Walmart still does this:
This type of employee abuse should have been nipped in the bud by federal, state, or local labor authorities, but apparently it wasn't.
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wtf ?
Interestingly that article you link to was published in February 1930, right near the start of the "Great Depression" and states that "These studies were supported in part by a research grant from the Institute of American Meat Packers". They were probably scared stiff that nobody would be left with enough pennies in their pocket to buy meat.
You want smart people? "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. - Albert Einstein in a letter to "Vegetarian Watch-Tower", 27 December 1930
I'm not into lycra.
Do you live in a cage?
Funny thing about this world, sometimes a stranger (in this case a dog) can indeed save your life.
Often it's the dog's own family, but sometimes it's someone who just happened to need help and was lucky enough that their distress was noticed by a dog.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-bradley-dog-pepper_55d75fd3e4b04ae49703166e
http://theweek.com/articles/466829/7-inspiring-stories-stray-dogs-saving-perfect-strangers
http://www.dogguide.net/25-hero-dogs.php
You cited the law but you forgot to add the smileys and, see what happens?
Pet dogs generally don't have parasites in their gut and if they do pick something up (generally by drinking from a standing body of water like a lake) their owner will soon notice the symptoms and take them to the vet for treatment.
Don't be so afraid of dogs. Dogs have lived with, worked and cared for humans for thousands of years and the rewards to humans have more than exceeded the drawbacks (like occasionally stepping in some poop).
Can we do the same to motor vehicle operators whose engines spew cancer and asthma causing exhaust into the air and splatter carcinogen tainted oil onto the roads?
In NYC, in the late 1950s, a small soda bottle had a 2-cent deposit and a large soda bottle had a 5-cent deposit. In 2015, all soda bottles have 5-cent deposit. Think about the inflation from 1950s to 2015 and wrap your head around the fact that it basically did not touch bottle (and can) deposits. The streets here always have broken glass because slobs just toss their empty beer and wine bottles. The roads are cleaned regularly by the city sanitation department but the sidewalks are not; each apartment, business storefront, or home owner is responsible for cleaning their own little portion of the sidewalk. Guess how well that works out.
Because your life is not cluttered enough ...
Because you can't resist buying stupid shit
Because you need just One More Thing to clutter up your home
Swatch!
More likely the price gouger would have thought: "I can quickly buy out all the portable generators at the nearby Home Depot, Lowes, Sears, Target, Walmart, and Kmart stores and have the market here all to myself when people realize that there's a hurricane coming."
Fine. I can't take a picture of the food that was served to me.
But I can post the result after my digestive system has recast the original thereby creating a derivative work, right? That should make for a nice addition to any restaurant review.
Indeed!
http://www.streetsblog.org/2014/12/17/eyes-on-the-street-dodging-drivers-on-the-sidewalk/
http://www.streetsblog.org/2015/07/22/vance-nets-felony-indictment-for-driver-in-beekman-sidewalk-hit-and-run/
http://www.streetsblog.org/2015/07/17/nypd-no-charges-for-driver-who-killed-woman-on-brooklyn-sidewalk/
http://www.streetsblog.org/2015/03/23/no-charges-for-cab-driver-who-killed-two-people-on-bronx-sidewalk/
http://www.streetsblog.org/2014/10/27/its-still-legal-to-run-over-a-child-on-a-new-york-city-sidewalk/
Interesting question. According to this discussion on a Pizza Delivery Drivers Forum, apparently not:
http://gregspages.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32
Did the study exclude the possibility that DUI arrests dramatically decreased not because of the availability of Uber but instead because of reduced police enforcement?
I'm asking this in all seriousness because traffic enforcement in NYC where I live has become nearly nonexistent. So the number of tickets for "failure to yield right of way", "reckless driving", passing a red light, and the rest of the traffic violations has "dramatically decreased" in NYC. But the number of drivers who do these things has increased to the point where it's not only dangerous to ride a bike or to cross the street, with the light, in a crosswalk (one is likely to get hit by a car making a turn on that same green light) but there are numerous instances of vehicles plowing into pedestrians on the sidewalk and crashing through the windows of stores and restaurants. Our mayor Bill deBlasio initiated a "Vision Zero" campaign to control this traffic carnage but it hasn't really accomplished much to date.
I'm pretty sure that most personal insurance policies specifically exclude coverage for damages incurred if the vehicle is used as a business (as opposed to using it to get to and from a business).
I guess you haven't been following the news lately. A 30 year old teacher who had sex with her 17 year old male student was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Just for example.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/predator-teacher-gets-22-years-for-sex-with-students/
Nope. New Zealand. https://plus.google.com/106104557432351161774
Here in beautiful downtown Manhattan the majority of men who urinate in the street do not use a wall but instead step into the doorway of an apartment building or storefront and urinate into that. It gives them a comforting false sense of privacy (people walking by see only their back).
The NY Post went bananas though after photographing one poor homeless guy who was considerate enough to urinate in the gutter instead: http://nypost.com/2015/07/13/vagrant-back-to-peeing-in-the-streets-says-he-is-a-good-guy
This is part of their campaign against NYC's mayor Bill de Blasio. The NY Post hates him. Or at least Rupert Murdoch does. Apparently they want the mayor to make the homeless folks magically disappear.
I wonder the very same thing about the signs that are placed just before a speed bump (typically on a street that runs near a school).
Instead of letting it be an unpleasant surprise that might actually modify reckless drivers' behavior and get them to drive more carefully and slowly, they are presented with a sign saying BUMP in big letters thus telling them that they can drive however they want until they approach such a sign.
Maybe if he attacked it with his own fighter drone?
Why would you want to destroy the evidence instead of using it to file criminal charges against whoever put it there?
I noticed that you wrote Also, we're talking conversation here, not characters. and realized from your first sentence that you were familiar with the simplified character problem with the word "Gan". However despite your statement that "Gan" would never be used for "it's nice to talk to you." we can't know whether it was or was not used in the reported case because, understandably enough, the very short "Network World" article doesn't provide the actual words that were used. Maybe the speaker did use "Gan".
And although "we're talking conversation here, not characters", my first thought was that the translation software did something like:
1. Capture sound of word
2. Determine what character the word corresponds to
3. Translate that character
In which case the "collapsed" simplified character problem would indeed be pertinent.