Exactly. These are the same employers who try like hell to get something classified as an ‘internship’ so they can get someone to work for free when there is nothing that furthers their education or experience.

One of the litmus tests has also always been ‘can the employee set his/her own hours?’ and as Wylie so…

I’m inclined to agree. I have a tiny business as well. Really, my employees are the ones doing me the favor - without them I’d simply have to close shop. The idea of using some loophole to not pay them a fair wage seems ghastly.

In all likelihood, these assistant literary agents and production assistants should have been getting overtime all along even if they’re paid over the $23,660 salary. The salary amount is only one part of the test as to whether or not a job is exempt from paying overtime. In addition to the salary tests (level and…

When did paying people for their work become “anti business?”

I run a small (tiny) business, and really, this law is looooong overdue. Pay people for the work they do or for the hours they work, and stop making excuses about how this will hurt - think of the people working long, hard hours for minimal compensation. If overtime is expensive for the employer in dollars, it is even…

You never see bad guys in movies who are Arab terrorists. It’s always Germans or French…

Common mistake. See, it’s only “illegal” if you can pay for the rape kit that better have DNA, and have so many injuries that it looks like you were dropped off a 3 story building. And even then it’s “he said, she said” issue, depending on what you were wearing at the time and whether the “rapist” is someone you might…

This is incredible!! Fuck yes, little girl, scoop all those professional reporters. Collect your Pulitzer in 10 years and laugh in their faces.

Is a kumquat okay?

Never in a million years would I think to bring a girl a piece of fruit on a date.

It’s normal for anyone. I say this as a professional dog walker. If you have a dog that is on the larger size, you should just assume people are not going to be comfortable with your dog going up to them, for the safety of other people and for the safety of your dog. If your dog is out in a public place, you should…

In New York and Chicago and other big cities, most rides are not dispatched, and unlike Uber, have no record.

Not that I’m thrilled with these shenanigans, but I take Uber all the time, and have for nearly two years. Sometimes multiple times a day. Often I take Uber alone at 2am. I haven’t been sexually assaulted or raped once. I haven’t even been verbally harassed.

Are taxis any safer? I doubt it, according to this article there are a fair amount of assaults by NY cabbies as well... http://nypost.com/2016/01/06/bra…

After the attacks in Cologne, there were accusations that the media weren’t covering them because they were concerned about inciting violence against refugees.

The catch is you usually have to report the amount forgiven as income, and then get taxed on it as income. Not sure if that’s how it works with the non-profit route.

It’s funny how the perceived value of a lucrative entertainer is clearly still higher than women’s basic human rights. “But he’s a rare talent!!” “But he attacked me!” “Well...?” *shrugs*

I think a detailed knowledge of the rules at fanfiction.net limits the extent to which you get to throw “creepy” around.

I waited until I was a bit older to have kids (I had mine at 33 and 36). While I feel that mentally I am probably a better parent than I would have been in my 20’s, I think physically it would have been much easier. I had so much energy at that age. At 38 pulling an all nighter with the kids when they’re sick then…