I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“What is your source for stating material hardship is down by 77 percent since 1980?” Trudi Renwick, an economist at the Census Bureau, wrote in an email questioning the Trump administration’s rebuttal to the U.N.
me trying to write satire for the onion: and in a shocking turn of events russia appointed actor steven seagal to represent us-russian humanitarian ties
the news before i hit enter:
Sure, Tom Lehrer quit being a satirist after Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize because he said that was the peak of satire.
You pay people for the time you require them to do things. This is the law. This has been the law since at least the great depression. This is nothing more than an affirmation of the law that already existed, and that employers were already violating.
If there’s billions at stake here, then, the correct statement about this ruling with regards to labor costs is, “Employers have been illegally padding their bottom lines with billions in unpaid labor.”
paying people for their labour is the fundamental bedrock of the employer/employee relationship, and anyone who doesn’t understand that isn’t an employer at all, just a conman.
this is fucking baffling. my employer isn’t perfect, but we are paid for every *minute* that we are clocked in. If I’m scheduled 12-8, but I clock in at 11:55 (we are typically expected to clock in a bit early for change-over), and out at 8:15 because customers take too long to leave, I am paid for 8.34 hrs. If I clock out at 8:01, I am paid for that minute. This isn’t “you get paid for an extra hour” or whatever weirdness I’ve seen in the notes, but we are paid for each minute that we work.
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