No, the word is sleazy. Louche is a euphemism. You’re welcome btw.:p

Soon we will have the company store back, and will get paid in credits, not money. We already have some companies trying to do company owned housing. Seriously we need to improve history education.

for the same reason local economies collapsed in coal country - because we’re automating a ton of jobs out of existence, and rather than taking that additional productivity and using it to give workers universal healthcare or a universal basic income, we’re letting jeff bezos buy small nations and have 15,000$ of…

There’s “urgency”. And then there’s “We have to put your health at risk so we can keep a promise that we never should have made in the first place to consumers who think having to wait three days instead of two is a burden they cannot bear and live”.

AKA: Work has it was done a century ago by people with no protections, options, or a reasonable employer.

The bullshit incentives in favor of giving people actual wages is everywhere in retail. I remember in the early 90s, going to retail pep rallies and being annoyed that after a year and a half, they begrudged us a 25 cent an hour raise. We also found out that the manager got a bonus if she kept salaries under a certain…

As we wander, blindly, it seems, into the new Gilded Age.

Fuck her.

Who said she was surprised? Just because we are used to men being assholes doesn’t mean we can’t speak up about it.

Louche.

I will also be completely shocked at all the deliberately bad “confusion” takes that’ll be offered because the victims are women who choose to use their looks and sex appeal as a career choice and therefore men would of course think they’d accept any advances...

“Marciano propositioned her by inviting her to meet him in Scottsdale.”

sleazy is the term I believe you’re looking for

Unlike anyone who has ever heard one of the Marciano brothers speak, read any of Michael Gross’s highly vetted tomes about the fashion industry, or seen a single Guess ad, I am SHOCKED! Utterly shocked by this news that the Marcianos are sexually harassing scumbags!

I am shocked, shocked that there would be exploitation of this sort in an industry characterized by a perpetual glut of labor competing for a small and relatively slow-growing number of gigs. Flabbergasted.

Yeah it won’t be that surprising to hear that the fashion industry is just filled entirely with predators given what they seem to trade in and their even legal behaviour towards models (size zero, anyone).

This makes his insistence that Guess campaign models be newcomers to the industry who have not had any other campaign work before more suspect.

Interested to note that this is the 3rd or 4th Jezebel article about kink, compared to 0 about gay women.

So... funny story about this expo. As you might imagine, many of the events take place in the evening, and portions of the show hall are rented out for other events during the day. One of those events a few years back was a quilting and sewing show, and my dear auntie was there, and so were several thousand other…

Might be a good idea to keep this pic off the front page so I can continue to check Jezabel at work . . .just sayin’