Probably a cultural difference, in America, the boat you showed would be called a "boat." A "yacht" is a very large boat, with a captain and a crew, and is luxurious.
From Wikipedia: A yacht /jɒt/ is a sail or power vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing. There is no standard definition, so the term applies here to such vessels that have a cabin with amenities that accommodate overnight use. To be termed a yacht, as opposed to a boat, such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.
The Commercial Yacht Code classifies yachts 79 ft (24 m) and over as large. Such yachts typically require a hired crew and have higher construction standards."
I suspect Jeff Bezos has given this entire thing about twenty minutes' attention. Twenty minutes seems about right. He knows it might do a tiny amount of short term damage and also that it'll quickly go away. Twenty minutes seems about right to make sure some short-term damage is mitigated. No more, because the long-term damage is beyond negligible. There's not a chance in a million that more than a fraction of a percent of his customers or even his employees (which are "fungible" at almost every level right up to Tim Bray's) are going to change their behavior by a single dime. The vast majority won't hear. The vast majority of those who do will shake their heads and do nothing. The vast majority of those who claim to boycott won't. The majority of those who initially do will come back. The rest are so tiny a fraction as to be entirely insignificant.
That's why the many comments promising to "be done" with Amazon dismay me. They imply an aggrandized sense of the importance of individual activist action when individual activist action is so weak as to be utterly unnoticeable. They *only* way to deal with the injustices inside Amazon, as well as Facebook, and Google, and inside virtually every company, large and small, from meat packing plants to ISPs to the Wal-Marts of the world is *collectively,* as a society, with rules, backed by force of law. Like, as the article points, out, France is doing. If you want to make change, apply your individual activist energies not to boycotting Amazon, because it won't change anything, but to putting rules in place that Amazon has no choice but to follow.
There used to be a Lane Bryant nearby, and I bought my bras there. Some other stuff too. As a 14/16, I was the smallest size in the store! Alas, it is no more.
Not only am I well endowed, I'm also a little lopsided (one's a bit bigger than the other). Sigh.
That is why you should let a union rep take the vote, in this case one from a different union since yours doesn't exist yet. Maybe there is a union you can join that is willing to take care of collecting these votes? Or, if you don't trust them either, hire a neutral party.
These uppity worker dudes are going to make it impossible to steal money! How in the hell do they expect ownership and workers to build their spaceports or have another boat on the lake near their summer house? awork
My partner's son started working at a local grocery store part time a year or so back, and was really grumpy about the union dues [ETA: we're a right-to-work state where paying in is apparently optional, and he agreed paying his share was the right thing to do. Good kid.].
Fast forward to today where has stopped going to senior classes is now a full-time "essential employee". His store immediately implemented hazard pay, started right out with two people exclusively disinfecting, added permanent raises on top of hazard pay, got masks and gloves for the workers, backordered a no-touch thermometer (that still isn't here, BTW), etc. I feel safer in that store than pretty much any other place I have shopped at since this pandemic started (which is nice considering he lives in the basement).
Needless to say, a few dues don't seem like such a negative anymore.
Simply put, yes. I cut it off over a month ago when their workers started dying in the warehouses. I still order a ton of stuff online - just not through them.
Honestly, another (bigger) thing that needs to happen is people like me need to stop using AWS and move to Azure or GCC*. That's the bread-and-butter. Personally, I'm working on it.
Yeah. Unfortunately to find a replacement deliming spring for the coffee maker we use at work meant I ended up on Amazon. Now tempted to see if ebay could get me one faster.
Probably a cultural difference, in America, the boat you showed would be called a "boat." A "yacht" is a very large boat, with a captain and a crew, and is luxurious.
From Wikipedia: A yacht /jɒt/ is a sail or power vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing. There is no standard definition, so the term applies here to such vessels that have a cabin with amenities that accommodate overnight use. To be termed a yacht, as opposed to a boat, such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.
The Commercial Yacht Code classifies yachts 79 ft (24 m) and over as large. Such yachts typically require a hired crew and have higher construction standards."
I suspect Jeff Bezos has given this entire thing about twenty minutes' attention. Twenty minutes seems about right. He knows it might do a tiny amount of short term damage and also that it'll quickly go away. Twenty minutes seems about right to make sure some short-term damage is mitigated. No more, because the long-term damage is beyond negligible. There's not a chance in a million that more than a fraction of a percent of his customers or even his employees (which are "fungible" at almost every level right up to Tim Bray's) are going to change their behavior by a single dime. The vast majority won't hear. The vast majority of those who do will shake their heads and do nothing. The vast majority of those who claim to boycott won't. The majority of those who initially do will come back. The rest are so tiny a fraction as to be entirely insignificant.
That's why the many comments promising to "be done" with Amazon dismay me. They imply an aggrandized sense of the importance of individual activist action when individual activist action is so weak as to be utterly unnoticeable. They *only* way to deal with the injustices inside Amazon, as well as Facebook, and Google, and inside virtually every company, large and small, from meat packing plants to ISPs to the Wal-Marts of the world is *collectively,* as a society, with rules, backed by force of law. Like, as the article points, out, France is doing. If you want to make change, apply your individual activist energies not to boycotting Amazon, because it won't change anything, but to putting rules in place that Amazon has no choice but to follow.
Grrl, I feel you on that. Mama got a little overblessed in the chesticle region; can't even really buy off the rack (altho I do cause I ain't rich).
There used to be a Lane Bryant nearby, and I bought my bras there. Some other stuff too. As a 14/16, I was the smallest size in the store! Alas, it is no more.
Not only am I well endowed, I'm also a little lopsided (one's a bit bigger than the other). Sigh.
That is why you should let a union rep take the vote, in this case one from a different union since yours doesn't exist yet. Maybe there is a union you can join that is willing to take care of collecting these votes? Or, if you don't trust them either, hire a neutral party.
Because Americans hate everyone else's freedoms. Turnabout is fair play.
I'd like to see both in the same category, just have the first sentence make it clear:"This is one of the good ones.""This is one of the bad ones."
Why? because he is rich? There are plenty of poor people with relevant skills, why do you insist on giving the good jobs to rich people?
In somewhat related news, Biden campaign organizes.
Yes, thank Dog for my union. Seriously.
I'm hoping that's more a turn of a phrase than an attempt at accurate sourcing, but I could be wrong.
These uppity worker dudes are going to make it impossible to steal money! How in the hell do they expect ownership and workers to build their spaceports or have another boat on the lake near their summer house? awork
My partner's son started working at a local grocery store part time a year or so back, and was really grumpy about the union dues [ETA: we're a right-to-work state where paying in is apparently optional, and he agreed paying his share was the right thing to do. Good kid.].
Fast forward to today where has stopped going to senior classes is now a full-time "essential employee". His store immediately implemented hazard pay, started right out with two people exclusively disinfecting, added permanent raises on top of hazard pay, got masks and gloves for the workers, backordered a no-touch thermometer (that still isn't here, BTW), etc. I feel safer in that store than pretty much any other place I have shopped at since this pandemic started (which is nice considering he lives in the basement).
Needless to say, a few dues don't seem like such a negative anymore.
Simply put, yes. I cut it off over a month ago when their workers started dying in the warehouses. I still order a ton of stuff online - just not through them.
Honestly, another (bigger) thing that needs to happen is people like me need to stop using AWS and move to Azure or GCC*. That's the bread-and-butter. Personally, I'm working on it.
(*Google has it's own creep factor)
Yeah. Unfortunately to find a replacement deliming spring for the coffee maker we use at work meant I ended up on Amazon. Now tempted to see if ebay could get me one faster.
it's a slippery slope from unions to social safety. can't have that because freedumb.