Good job, Joe. Now, someone take on nonprofits, especially nonprofit arts who are notorious for misclassifying even regular administrative jobs that are indistinguishable from regular staff. So many places tell contract staff outright "we don't want to have to pay health care and payroll x, so we're classifying you as contract". When I left my abusive job I seriously considered suing them for back pay as I figure I have lost $150,000 in taxes and healthcare that I paid because they said I was "contract" (and when they changed my position from staff to contract they literally told me it was because they didn't want to pay my taxes or healthcare anymore.
I've stopped watching Colbert do those insulting impersonations of Biden every damn show. The other day I was watching Seth Meyer, who was going to have Kamala Harris as a guest that night, go on a similar rag to open that show. Portraying him as an addle-brained stupid old man who doesn't know what's going on is pure bullshit. He is getting shit done--as noted in this piece from Dok.
Well, good for Massachusetts. California's state universities are fucked, flagship Berkeley included. (Unless things changed when I wasn't paying attention.)
When I worked in restaurants, tipped servers would share a small portion of their tips with the cooks, bus help, even the dishwashers. Probably 5-10% of their total tips all told. Point being, just tip your server, over.
The so-called "gig economy" depends on a continually refreshed pool of people willing to take a crappy part-time job with no benefits. I do occasionally use Uber, and frequently if I chat up the driver I find out they were actually unemployed, and this is what they are doing while they look for another job, just to get a few $$ coming in. However, once you factor in vehicle depreciation, you are probably making a shit wage or even losing money. I did recently get a ride from a woman who was leasing a Tesla to drive for Uber. Not clear if that is even economical for her, plus she said she has no home charger so is spending over an hour every day charging that sucker up. I guess she knows her business but it does not seem like a good deal to me.
One theory behind contract work was it was often short term, a year or less as far as guaranteed work, although it could last a long time. For example a contract engineer on a defense contract of limited life. But the other point was the contract worker was paid more because he had to pay his full payroll tax, his own insurance (or skip insurance) and had no guarantee of a job past the contract period. So there was a legitimate trade off some people would find advantageous.
What it has turned into is allowing sub minimum wage at times, very little chance of making much more than $15 an hour on average with no extra pay for overtime, and zero benefits. All for the right to say I don't want that particular trip or I just don't want to work today. Which does hinder your advancement in a regular job. But most of these Uber and Door Dash jobs have no advancement opportunities anyway.
Just like companies have utilized job titles with imaginary responsibilities by saying they are "assistant managers" of the dairy section or men's garters department to work people making $15 an hour work more than 40 hours per week with no overtime, places like Uber are getting thousands of people to work potentially dangerous jobs with no real protection of full time work. Especially with driving jobs, getting injured in an accident without coverage from workers compensation can be devastating. As can contract work involving a lot of physical labor.
Same, first job out of college with a Maine-based nonprofit that focuses on islands. They classified me as a contractor, which was bullshit. To their credit they changed it to statutory employees for the people hired after me, once I explained law to them.
With the vipers.
You don't even have to pay family.
Yay!
Good job, Joe. Now, someone take on nonprofits, especially nonprofit arts who are notorious for misclassifying even regular administrative jobs that are indistinguishable from regular staff. So many places tell contract staff outright "we don't want to have to pay health care and payroll x, so we're classifying you as contract". When I left my abusive job I seriously considered suing them for back pay as I figure I have lost $150,000 in taxes and healthcare that I paid because they said I was "contract" (and when they changed my position from staff to contract they literally told me it was because they didn't want to pay my taxes or healthcare anymore.
I've stopped watching Colbert do those insulting impersonations of Biden every damn show. The other day I was watching Seth Meyer, who was going to have Kamala Harris as a guest that night, go on a similar rag to open that show. Portraying him as an addle-brained stupid old man who doesn't know what's going on is pure bullshit. He is getting shit done--as noted in this piece from Dok.
Well, good for Massachusetts. California's state universities are fucked, flagship Berkeley included. (Unless things changed when I wasn't paying attention.)
Yeah, but I figure getting out there and letting people know is the first step.
sex work or something illegal is his first go to with a female patient complaining of fatigue and anorexia?
Fantastic. I'm sure the cretins at Fox will have hysterics, which makes it extra good.
This is revolutionary. Good on the Biden administration.
This happens in education a lot too.
When I worked in restaurants, tipped servers would share a small portion of their tips with the cooks, bus help, even the dishwashers. Probably 5-10% of their total tips all told. Point being, just tip your server, over.
The so-called "gig economy" depends on a continually refreshed pool of people willing to take a crappy part-time job with no benefits. I do occasionally use Uber, and frequently if I chat up the driver I find out they were actually unemployed, and this is what they are doing while they look for another job, just to get a few $$ coming in. However, once you factor in vehicle depreciation, you are probably making a shit wage or even losing money. I did recently get a ride from a woman who was leasing a Tesla to drive for Uber. Not clear if that is even economical for her, plus she said she has no home charger so is spending over an hour every day charging that sucker up. I guess she knows her business but it does not seem like a good deal to me.
As a union member I avoid self-checkout whenever possible.
One theory behind contract work was it was often short term, a year or less as far as guaranteed work, although it could last a long time. For example a contract engineer on a defense contract of limited life. But the other point was the contract worker was paid more because he had to pay his full payroll tax, his own insurance (or skip insurance) and had no guarantee of a job past the contract period. So there was a legitimate trade off some people would find advantageous.
What it has turned into is allowing sub minimum wage at times, very little chance of making much more than $15 an hour on average with no extra pay for overtime, and zero benefits. All for the right to say I don't want that particular trip or I just don't want to work today. Which does hinder your advancement in a regular job. But most of these Uber and Door Dash jobs have no advancement opportunities anyway.
Just like companies have utilized job titles with imaginary responsibilities by saying they are "assistant managers" of the dairy section or men's garters department to work people making $15 an hour work more than 40 hours per week with no overtime, places like Uber are getting thousands of people to work potentially dangerous jobs with no real protection of full time work. Especially with driving jobs, getting injured in an accident without coverage from workers compensation can be devastating. As can contract work involving a lot of physical labor.
Same, first job out of college with a Maine-based nonprofit that focuses on islands. They classified me as a contractor, which was bullshit. To their credit they changed it to statutory employees for the people hired after me, once I explained law to them.