I am no longer in grad school and I don’t ever have to talk like that again.

A number of these nuts are threatening to move out of California, to which I say, “BYE, BITCH.”

My mom basically said the same thing to me when I was 7 in 1992 and she was helping her friend get ready for a drag show. “You know how you like boys? Well sometimes boys like boys and girls like girls, and sometimes those boys like to wear dresses and sing Diana Ross songs.” I was like, “Cool, can I do Perry’s…

This is actually a French national initiative to curtail the rampant problem with snakes on planes.

This comment is everything wrong with America.

My cat, who once opened a microwave oven while the popcorn was popping, has more self-control than the caramel lady.

My cat, who once destroyed a floor-to-ceiling lamp with her butt, has more self-control than the caramel lady.

My cat, who once fell off a bookshelf at 3 AM only to land butt-first on my face (catass…

Poor, poor hosts. Man, though: a good host is not a thing to be taken lightly. They’re a rare and precious resource.

Uber drivers are highly likely to not be employees.

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“Building a corporate empire by dicking over its drivers”? You mean “the machinery of capitalism is oiled by the blood of the workers.”

Having worked as an independent contractor in California, and having had to justify that stance to the California Labor Board when one of my customers got hit by them wanting payment for worker’s comp (an insurance I paid for on myself and took into account in the rates I charged to my clients) I probably have a much…

The standard rule is not only about control. In fact, if you read the department of Labor’s website, you will find that the first criterion listed is not about control at all. But rather is

Yes it does. It sets standards for its employees and dismisses those it feels cannot meet them.

If it makes so much sense, “legally speaking,” then why did the commission rule against their legal argument? It’s pretty hard to argue that Uber drivers should not be considered employees when they basically are behaving exactly the same as taxi drivers, who must be considered employees. The only thing that makes…

Uber’s compensation system more or less prevents full-time drivers from working for anybody other than Uber if they want to avoid a pay cut. That is an incredibly steep restriction that makes the relationship between the two parties very clear.

Yeah, ‘cept contracting a company is not the same as contracting an individual.

The strength of Uber is the large employee base, they wouldn’t get rid of that. These employees can probably be “commissioned employees,” so the pay model is the same (as long as they get minimum wage, but then Uber would have to figure out how to enforce employees actually working their hours by accepting a certain…

Conversely watch as Uber decides to comply and provide workers with benefits. Yay Bureaucracy!

Yup, the whole world destroyed by a simple application of labor law. Wow.

What scares me is I do know what she’s saying. It makes me mad that I understand that.