Um am I interpreting this correctly as being a joke about Diana’s death? Cuz if so that’s waaaayyyy worse and it’s really telling that THAT was left in and pretty mild Prince Andrew jokes were taken out. Which were just about him being a creep (esp the first one about a dingo eating her baby) and is only offensive if…

Same. Never read Bossypants or watched Kimmy whatever. But this is a valid statement on parental abuse and how we raise girls in our society to be meek punching bags to all kinds of abuse including verbal abuse. I don’t see it as putting the onus on the abused. Rather it is calling out shitbags like Colin Quinn and…

This is the only thing related to Trump women that I actually support.

An article on “why I like this show” that opens with two paragraphs on “why I don’t like Tina Fey” might be the dictionary definition of “burying the lede.”

Poor Dave has to eat all those nasty concoctions 

>Of course, we all know that the free market only loves itself until it needs Daddy Government to step in and provide cheap labor (via minimum wage stagnation).

I think there’s a lot of delusional owners of “regional” businesses that quite simply refuse to accept that the work they offer is what everyone mostly considers “last resort”. Construction firms, chain restaurants, “mom & pop” shops, all of these places are not where anyone wants to be employed as a low or mid-tier…

Barbara Ehrenreich makes the exact same point as you in Nickel and Dimed (p. 202),

A friend of mine recently turned down a job offer that was much lower than her current salary. The company followed up with her to find out why she turned it down and she finally told them it was because the salary was too low. And the person she spoke to had the nerve to get mad. Companies expect people to work for…

I got offered close to my dream job in 2018...for 25k...in Boston. I turned it down and went back to school instead. I actually made more as a grad student, with better benefits, than I would have at that job and that's saying something.

For Republicans, the role of government is to make sure there are enough desperate people who will work themselves to death for poverty wages while being demeaned by employers and customers alike.

You bring up good points. However, if there really is the level of pent up demand that a lot of these restaurant owners are claiming there is...if they are having to turn away diners every night because there are not enough workers to accommodate that demand, then they are in a situation where they should be able to…

Economics 101: Supply and Demand. If the supply of people willing to work for sub-minimum wage, counting on tips to make up the difference, is too low to satisfy demand, then wages need to increase until the supply is enough to meet the demand.

As someone who got seriously hammered in the last big recession in 2009-2010, unemployment benefits are helpful, but you’re right, they sure as hell don’t replace your previous salary. I lost one of the best jobs I ever had and was out of work for 9 months. Then I found contract work that saw me through about a year…

Not only do restaurant jobs generally poorly compensated, but right now they’re not really operating anywhere near capacity and there’s no promise you won’t get cut again next week if your state’s governor changes restrictions again.

I used to work at a trade association, and the CEO was such a tight ass. He refused to adjust the receptionist’s salary: $27k in 2001. He was convinced the position was overpaid even though this was in DC and he required a college degree for the job.

Agreed. I’m a high skill worker in a demanding field, and I’m seeing even very profitable companies trying to hire new people at 70% of the going rate. I also have the benefit that my wife is in a very similar area, and we're able to compare offers we see. The low paying ones have been shocked when we don't respond to…

Unemployment typically does not cover 100% of your lost wages. Even with the $300 supplement, the Chamber of Commerce’s own analysis shows that 75% of people collecting unemployment are getting less than they got from working. It’s highly unlikely that there are a significant number of people turning down jobs because…

I heard one restauranteur that moaned about applicants who never showed up for interviews, or were offered the job but ghosted, and blamed it on people fulfilling unemployment benefit requirements to search for jobs. Instead of taking that insight as an acknowledgment that unemployment benefit requirements are very…

It’s the $10 leather couch bullshit.