Most people are burned out after a few years of working for Space X at the Space Center and then end up leaving for a lower-paying NASA contractor job.
I get the law was meant for farms that do probably take advantage of low-pay employees, but it is very easy to get fucked over as an employer. My old company started firing workers if they didn't punch out for lunch within a minute of when they were supposed to in order to prevent class action lawsuits.
the market efficient step towards compliance is to shove responsibilities onto employees under penalty of termination from an at-will job
As a former partner in a public accounting firm, I can confirm that this is definitely the best way. It's literally how public accounting firms make money.
recently left a Cali based company with several class actions in its history where I successfully ran a team of hourly employees while following labor laws and not firing anyone ama
My mom has been a CPA for all of my life and is finally getting to the point where she admits that tax season makes her think "what the fuck is the point"
plastic pallets have their role - they're more durable and longer lasting than wood pallets. i'm on board with getting rid of wooden pallets bc the reuse and recycling option for them is few and far between. you don't typically burn them because you can never tell if the wood is treated or not, so biomass facilities typically allot about 2-5% of their inbound streams to be pallet waste. go across the country to any manufacturing plant and you'll see mountains of pallets (usually always wooden) either being stockpiled because they don't want to landfill them or because they try and reuse them. a company abandoning their 3 year plan to swap over all of costco's pallets from wood to plastic because they're not going to be able to make 15% ROI doesn't surprise me. i don't know much about the pallet industry so i can't really intelligently comment on that story, but i do know a lot of my clients are getting away from wooden pallets and using more plastic ones because they're able to get more use out of them. i don't know if you got the answer you were looking for, but i'm admittedly out of my depth wrt to that story
one of my favs was one of my alabama clients was talking to me about all their treated wood pallet waste stockpiled out back, so he took a bunch of it home and turned it into a garden for his fruits and vegetables. i was like "are you not concerned in the slightest about your creosote soaked pallets leaching into your vegetables?" to which he just blankly stared at me
SIAP: I recommend Elon fan boys watch this. But I doubt you will get your heads out your asses. This is the final video in a series of videos.
FWIW my contractor's son is a diagnostics systems engineer for SpaceX and is very happy with the company. 30yo, single, so he doesn't mind the weird work schedule or the pre-launch stress. Pay is OK but he really likes the vesting program FTR I can't stand Musk and I'd never buy a Tesla
You know what else is efficient? Taking the knowledge gained from decades of expensive and difficult government research and development and just claiming it as your own starting point for your private company.
Okay so we had to do this to the big volleyball guy in the annoying work thread too… but it’s seems to me like you actually are a pretty big pallet industry guy.
Again, at the end of the program, who owns the shit that was built? Paying a contractor to build something is fine. But if you pay them to build it, you should own it when it's done. I'm paying a company to build a pool. When it's completed, do I have to pay them every time I want to use it? Of course not. So why are we, the taxpayers, paying companies to build shit and then paying them to use what we paid them to build? The whole concept is dumb.
I manage about 40 employees in CA, we’ve had a bunch of class actions from other offices in the state, but not in years. It’s annoying that you have to force employees to take their lunch breaks when you absolutely have not asked them to work through it, but it’s not some huge lift to not break the law. However, it was fun being both a member of the class and a witness on behalf of my employer.
What the hell is "having children via surrogate?" Are they fertilizing the egg, and then implanting it in someone else? If that's the only way they can have kids, then I completely understand, but something tells me it's just by choice.
It wouldn't be for us either. I get how someone that rich would rather just pay for it though. Hell they don't even really raise their kids, they pay for that too.
These two posts are the end of the argument, I have no idea how this went on for pages. ~40% of the federal government are contractors, who work for private or public companies. Any major gov project is going to involve contractors or large prime contractors. Government funding will always get sliced a million ways…it’s about ownership. NASA has boatloads of contractors providing direct and indirect support, but Booz Allen doesn’t own the product and charge the government a feee to go into space. ***Not an endorsement at all for the way things are, just stating what I thought was obvious until this ridiculous argument.
There are, I think, actual good lawyers out there who care about protecting the rights of individuals. Very interesting how NK paints those people.
You seem to look at things at a very surface level. Which is fine. You got a job and a life you need to focus on and shit. It’s hard. It’s hard for me too. You aren’t required to think deeply about every societal issue. But that you hop online to share your poorly thought out thoughts about something you’ve put so little thought into is so weird. Im sure some lawyers do look for workers experiencing wage theft and maybe talk workers into filing lawsuits they end up not winning and bring annoyance to the company and don’t help the employer BUT WHY IN THE FUCK DO YOU THINK LAWYERS BECAME AWARE OF THIS AND DECIDED IT WAS A LUCRATIVE ENOUGH VENTURE TO GO MAKE IT PART OF THEIR PRACTICE IN THE FIRST PLACE GOD DAMN FUCK It’s okay to just shut the fuck up and not have a strong opinion about confusing and complicated things
This didn’t happen bc we want to force employers to force employees to take lunch breaks. It’s to stop employers from overburdening their employees with deliverables that force those employees to work through breaks and work unpaid overtime in order to achieve those deliverables. But corporate cunts are so fucking self absorbed and greedy and petty they’re always going to find ways to blame anyone else but themselves. Instead of changing their shitty, exploitative business model in a way that might reduce their profit, they decided to install a policy that defends them from liability of the shitty consequences of their shitty business model. So many different companies/industries have built shitty fucking business models that exploit their workers. If the defense of those workers causes some employers to have to pay out of their third home fund for a lawsuit then cry me a fucking River. And miss me with that “well we’ve had to fire workers bc they didn’t clock out for their break” bullshit. Not one gets fired for forgetting to clock out for their break. It’s has to be multiple documented offenses. You can train any human being to clock out of their job. If they aren’t clocking out. They’re making a conscious decision to. If they’re making a conscious decision to not clock out. And there are enough people making the decision to not clock out. Then there’s something very ducking wrong with our corporations business models at a nation wide level. Like fucking obviously. And for jobs like that, that former employee will find himself employed in a matter of weeks at another similarly shitty job, bc that job also desperately needs spots filled, bc they also treat workers like fucking shit.