I’m saying just because it worked for you many years ago doesn’t mean anyone can just do it. Things happen.

Thats so cute of you. Its also not free healthcare. Pretty sure they still pay for it.

Yea that is great, now you own me $3.99 for reading your comment.

Nearly the same story. Companies will pay less since the cost of living is less, or at least that’s the argument I get, and jobs arent as abundant in other places outside of academia if I were to move. Lastly there’s ways to earn more, but almost all of those ways require a little (teaching credentials) or a lot more…

So I have left my phone in an Uber twice, and both times I got it back, but I called it and promised the driver cash for the reason you just outlined above. They could be out driving and making money, not returning things to my dumb ass. TBH, I felt like 50 was a decent deal considering the cost of a new phone and…

I always thought half the allure of being an uber driver is all the free cell phones and stuff drunk people leave behind. How else could you live on an uber driver’s salary if you aren’t selling forgotten iPhones on Craigslist?

I understand this, of course. I just mean, materially, you’re still paying someone to get your stuff back. Or rather, you’re still withholding their items until payment is received.

Good. At the very minimum, the driver looses a fare and some gas money returning your shit. Uber looses money when this happens. Everyone looses except the forgetful customer. Apparently enough people haven’t been tipping that it has become a problem that common courtesy couldn’t solve. If people just tipped the…

Well done, Uber. Drivers shouldn’t have to spend their own time and money delivering things to people who can’t keep track of their stuff when they get out of the car.

I don’t know who this benefits. The drivers aren’t any less exploited and now they have to make riders pay up if they forget their stuff? I’d feel super shitty doing that.

God only knows I know plenty of engineers, young and old, who are and have been out of work for quite some time now. Their STEM degree hasn’t given them a lick of job stability.

I would question your lack of “natural talent”: you either have some innate analytical ability or your Eng. degree didn’t include multivariable calculus, dynamics and/or linear algebra. This is anecdotal, of course, but I don’t know any P. Eng that didn’t gravitate to or have some level of “mathematical thinking”.…

STEM degree here, I do chemistry, and honestly its overrated. Here’s the problem with the job market, or at least in the SF bay area...most entry level jobs are contract W2 jobs which pay no benefits, and the pay is so low that I barely make much more than a Uber/Lyft driver. Most of my classmates that I talk to don’t…

Show me a industry desperate for workers, and I’ll show you an industry who isn’t willing to pay for them. It’s like the trucking industry. They constantly complain about workers, but they pay very little, and it’s by mileage. Someone else pointed out they need local drivers - ha. You don’t get paid much sitting in…

I know where one can get the training, my point is the affordability of getting trained (and trained well) and certified, and all of the other hidden costs that mechanics incur (eg- tools and toolboxes, which employers don’t provide, and which can cost thousands of dollars to get fully kitted out).

Holy crap. Someone who’s been looking at this from the same perspective I have been. This whole debate is framed around the an answer to the wrong question. They keep trying to answer “how do we get everybody insured”... but that is the wrong question.

Your employer is subsidizing the vast majority of your insurance, then.

It’s shame the entire discussion is framed around how to give the medical cartel the biggest possible slice of the productivity of the american people instead of how to dismantle the cartel and return medical care to a competitive free market and drive down prices.

Oh yes, I know it’s “too important” and there are…

Where does one without training or experience in aviation maintenance go to obtain training to become proficient enough not to be a danger to those flying in the planes they service, at a cost low enough that someone making $700/week can afford while supporting a family?

And what do you consider a real job? These people provide a service and we pay them for it. Sounds like a job to me.