It was finally flushed down the toilet, where all such items belong!

The upside of not owning a selfy stick.

I find his description of his life more or less horrifying. I could never look good enough to justify all that.

I am actually. Year 4 when I interviewed for a new job I buckled down and negotiated my salary for the first time, and was able to move to a nice sized room in a 3 bedroom apartment in a low rent Brooklyn neighborhood just before it was beginning to show signs of gentrification. My rent was only $850 + utilities. Then…

Thanks! I just wish freelancers would talk more openly about their shitty pay so that companies might be shamed into paying them a fair wage, whether they’re being compensated for their time or product. I believe that if the very loyal readers of this blog knew what their favorite writers were paid it would definitely…

Hahaha that’s cute. I didn’t “follow my dreams” to a profession that pays for shit and takes advantage at every turn. For many years I was a decently compensated writer and editor at a large newspaper that eventually laid off a shitton of people. Then that same newspaper stopped paying its freelance writers for the…

This. I don’t feel so bad about the amount I make now. Plus I get the perk of free travel on any of my company’s tours once a year. Some of these people are making way too little to live on the east coast.

Annie*, 23, is a publishing assistant at a major book publishing house in New York who makes around $36,000 a year with overtime, and receives good benefits.

Hey guuuuyz! Good news, you’re all contractors now!

Right? That’s always the argument. And yet there are so many examples of small businesses that already pay their employees fairly and are extremely successful. If you can’t afford to pay your workers fairly, you don’t need to be in business.

I came here to say this exactly.

“As for the question of small businesses, “the fact of the matter is if the only way a business can succeed is by working someone at 60 hours a week for $25,000 a year, if the profit margin is that small, then that business has really big problems in and of itself,” she said. “That’s not the model we need to embrace…

Pretty big gamble on Nike’s part that their non-competitive offer would be made competitive after the fact and then they can sue the client if things don’t go their way. Both ways you look at it Nike wasn’t acting in good faith by not matching the contract without reductions since that is how it was presented. Their…

Thats whats so amazing about this - Nike has ZERO evidence of what they are claiming. None. The NB contract was presented to them and Nike’s contract wasnt a match. Its basically “we’re used to shitting on our athletes so they have to be doing it too even though we didnt see it in their contract”.

“Nike firmly believes that any New Balance contract actually offered to Defendant included reductions,” said Nike in a court filing, “given that they are such a standard provision of endorsement contracts.”

Nike’s lawyers claim that the company will suffer “irreparable harm” if Berian is allowed to continue running in non-swooshed gear.

Bahrain is a massive Naval cargo hub in the Persian Gulf. It’s not so much that we provide them military aid as they let us pay to park our ships there so long as we don’t say shit about their government practices.

Gotta love that the U.S. provides military aid to Bahrain while pretending to give a shit about democracy, freedom, and human rights.

I don’t check anything. I’ve had too many trips with my items missing after being checked in. All I do is carry on.

Not everyone has the extra spending money to waste on checked baggage.