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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2010
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer

    Dynagrip on
  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I'm actually already halfway through the form I was just curious if anyone was going to say "no"

    EDIT: Arivia: It's 1.8 hours pay gone, actually

    We don't know enough about Norse Employment law to give anything more than simple non specific answers.

    See, if this was NZ I'd probably say no, as by law you are entitled to the same contract terms as union members and if it is a reasonably casual job you are unlikely to encounter serious enough employment problems so as to require assistance from such a body.

    If this was the UK I'd still say no, unless you were planning to fall out with your employer. In which case, just wait till the time comes, then join.

    Glorious Norway is an entirely different matter.

    So, how serious is the job and how worried are you about being mistreated?

    It's not a very serious job, which is exactly why mistreatment is a risk.

    A friend of mine has a boss who constantly pulls illegal shit on her young and unknowledgeable employees

    like, she fired one after she got back problems so severe she only almost made it to a doctor let alone work, and when she was going to come back she was just told she didn't need to come in tomorrow. She did that with all her shifts for a week then told her she was fired. That's like, three laws broken right there.

    But when my friend, who knows about this stuff, calls in sick, it's perfectly ok.

    Young people in these kinds of jobs are the ones most at risk for being fucked over at the workplace.

    Well young people are certainly pretty vulnerable to this kind of abuse. I certainly was taken advantage of when I was out working during high school, so on that basis, it probably isn't a bad idea. However these days it is not very hard to get good, very basic employment law advice (at least in English speaking countries that I have lived in) for free. So there is always that.

    application already sent because it's 1.8 hours worth of pay, and they don't just give advice they basically do everything for you should you need anything.

    Also I might be entitled to higher pay.

    Well if you get more money, then hoorah!

    Trade Unions can be pretty neat, quite often their representatives will be like trained attack dogs working for you. Which is nice if you are having trouble with your employers.

    Kalkino on
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  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Goddamnit, I did ANOTHER phallic doodle, complete with lazers coming out the end!

    Make the balls floating robotic orbs like Darth Maul's probe droids in Episode I, and have them find the Jedi and then there's a fight and they use their light dildos to whack at each other and Natalie Portman comes out of the ship and says how bout we just fuck it out gentleman and Jar Jar takes her roughly from behind thrusting in and out passionately as his elongated tongue whips around the air out of control and C-3PO polishes her ass while making very polite assessments of her form and purposeful motions as she grinds up and down on gungan cock and then Jabba shows up and makes them fight in the pits and the loser falls into the giant vagina metaphor because George Lucas's girlfriend at the time of making Return of the Jedi gave him the herp and he was very sore about it

    Wash on
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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Nah, you have rights that can be violated. You just don't have as much recourse if they are. If it is health or safety it goes to OSHA. If it deals with disability it falls under the American's with Disabilities Act and so on. But if it is just wanting a raise or benefits. Or numerous other things that collective bargaining can bring since it can produce a semi-equal footing with employers that is where unions become extremely important.

    Until, as was the case with the various unions I have ever encountered, they become corrupt and are just another huge drain on the workers paycheck for no benefit.

    Even a "good" union can be a huge disadvantage if you are newly entering the job given how heavily they favor seniority.

    And seriously, who the hell wants to work at a department store for 20 years?

    RiemannLives on
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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    my friend is texting me about how she's watching locked up abroad and it's freaking her out

    ahaha

    Not the show to try and relax to after a smoking session, that's for sure.

    TL DR on
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer

    america didn't really want a centrist president, clearly

    Pony on
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    my sister has read all the twilight books but I'm not really worried it'll fuck her up

    I mean, it's not like she reads other trashy books

    and I've been mocking them as mormon propaganda enough that she'll think a little about the stuff in it

    although I think she'd do that anyway, she's a very smart girl

    EDIT: Kalkino: Trained attack dogs are exactly what they are. They actually have packs of them roaming the streets looking for employers to feed upon. For serious!

    Abdhyius on
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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    America needs a good ass-kicking. I need immigration papers.

    Silas Brown on
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Daxon wrote: »
    Dan Brown also makes people (not only children - far far too many adults don't read as well) read, but Dan Brown isn't full of creepy messages about abstinence and beastiality/necrophilia.

    don't forget fucking till the girls' passed out and covered in bruises

    and tearing her uterus open with your teeth

    Tav on
  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer

    Its partially his own fault trying to be compromising and not trying to ram his policies through congress with an iron fist. The right wing was going to go after him no matter what he did, even if he put through every single policy they wanted it didn't matter. So better to go full bore and at least try to get things done and not piss off your base by giving in on the things we voted him in to do.

    I am disappointed in Obama, but not enough to vote for the other side whose ideas and actions I still believe are far far worse.

    Mazzyx on
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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    America needs a good ass-kicking. I need immigration papers.

    emigration papers

    Nerdgasmic on
  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer
    Wouldn't entirely surprise me.

    On the flip side, though, who are the Republicans going to run? Palin/Bachmann '12?

    Thanatos on
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    America needs a good ass-kicking. I need immigration papers.

    emigration papers

    Well, those too. I need to emigrate from the US and immigrate to... wherever.

    Silas Brown on
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited July 2010
    Elendil wrote: »
    "it's good if it makes children read" is always something that bugged me

    I like reading as much as the next guy but man watching a good film or whatever is going to be way better than reading a shitty book

    I don't know, there's shitty and there's shitty. I wouldn't want my kids reading Twilight but that's more to do with the weird messages it sends. If they want to read 5,000 Star Wars or Hardy Boys novels or whatever that's still building a habit that will serve them well later.

    but so anyway

    do you want to land some borders soon? I have been invited to go see Predators at 8 your time so I can't do an all-nighter but we could rock something for a while

    Jacobkosh on
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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Tav wrote: »
    Daxon wrote: »
    Dan Brown also makes people (not only children - far far too many adults don't read as well) read, but Dan Brown isn't full of creepy messages about abstinence and beastiality/necrophilia.

    don't forget fucking till the girls' passed out and covered in bruises

    wait

    what are objecting to here

    exactly

    Pony on
  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Daxon wrote: »
    Dan Brown also makes people (not only children - far far too many adults don't read as well) read, but Dan Brown isn't full of creepy messages about abstinence and beastiality/necrophilia.
    Don't forget about pedophilia. And misogyny.

    Thanatos on
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    "it's good if it makes children read" is always something that bugged me

    I like reading as much as the next guy but man watching a good film or whatever is going to be way better than reading a shitty book

    I don't know, there's shitty and there's shitty. I wouldn't want my kids reading Twilight but that's more to do with the weird messages it sends. If they want to read 5,000 Star Wars or Hardy Boys novels or whatever that's still building a habit that will serve them well later.

    but so anyway

    do you want to land some borders soon? I have been invited to go see Predators at 8 your time so I can't do an all-nighter but we could rock something for a while

    I can be on in a few minutes

    Elendil on
  • ZampanovZampanov You May Not Go Home Until Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer
    Wouldn't entirely surprise me.

    On the flip side, though, who are the Republicans going to run? Palin/Bachmann '12?

    Exactly. People are talking the shit right now, but I don't see who could run against him in '12 and win it.

    I mean maybe it'll be closer than the first election, but republicans still ain't got shit.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Nah, you have rights that can be violated. You just don't have as much recourse if they are. If it is health or safety it goes to OSHA. If it deals with disability it falls under the American's with Disabilities Act and so on. But if it is just wanting a raise or benefits. Or numerous other things that collective bargaining can bring since it can produce a semi-equal footing with employers that is where unions become extremely important.

    Until, as was the case with the various unions I have ever encountered, they become corrupt and are just another huge drain on the workers paycheck for no benefit.

    Even a "good" union can be a huge disadvantage if you are newly entering the job given how heavily they favor seniority.

    And seriously, who the hell wants to work at a department store for 20 years?

    They are still a large group of people with power, of course they get corrupt. I think they have a purpose, an important purpose for a lot of people. But being organizations made up of people they will never ever perfect.

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer

    Its partially his own fault trying to be compromising and not trying to ram his policies through congress with an iron fist. The right wing was going to go after him no matter what he did, even if he put through every single policy they wanted it didn't matter. So better to go full bore and at least try to get things done and not piss off your base by giving in on the things we voted him in to do.

    I am disappointed in Obama, but not enough to vote for the other side whose ideas and actions I still believe are far far worse.

    So, you are disappointed that he is behaving in the way he said he would during the campaign?

    There's a lot of hyperbolic nonsense that gets thrown around in Chat about Obama lately that all boils down to "la la la I wasn't listening during the entire freaking election season".

    RiemannLives on
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  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    America needs a good ass-kicking. I need immigration papers.

    emigration papers

    Well, those too. I need to emigrate from the US and immigrate to... wherever.

    Might I suggest Canada? Our women are better looking, our country's got a lot of wide open space for you to run around in, we've got the French... I guess that's a negative actually - but we've got the health care and politics aren't a big thing really, and there's multi-culturalism and other nice things.

    Wash on
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Nah, you have rights that can be violated. You just don't have as much recourse if they are. If it is health or safety it goes to OSHA. If it deals with disability it falls under the American's with Disabilities Act and so on. But if it is just wanting a raise or benefits. Or numerous other things that collective bargaining can bring since it can produce a semi-equal footing with employers that is where unions become extremely important.

    Until, as was the case with the various unions I have ever encountered, they become corrupt and are just another huge drain on the workers paycheck for no benefit.

    Even a "good" union can be a huge disadvantage if you are newly entering the job given how heavily they favor seniority.

    And seriously, who the hell wants to work at a department store for 20 years?

    I have no idea what you mean by this. How can it be a disadvantage?

    Also I think I should mention that this union encompasses nearly every store worker in the country and is a subsidiary of the largest union in the country which wields very considerable amounts of power given how strong their ties are to the biggest of the ruling party are

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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited July 2010
    so us developer folks got iPhone OS 4.1 for our iphones today.

    My signal bars look different, and it says I have 4 bars in my apartment when it said I had 5 all the time before.

    syndalis on
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    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
  • Just Like ThatJust Like That Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Steele/Palin '12!
    could you imagine

    Just Like That on
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Well, anyway, I shouldn't actually even be considering any big changes like that.

    Silas Brown on
  • ZampanovZampanov You May Not Go Home Until Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer

    Its partially his own fault trying to be compromising and not trying to ram his policies through congress with an iron fist. The right wing was going to go after him no matter what he did, even if he put through every single policy they wanted it didn't matter. So better to go full bore and at least try to get things done and not piss off your base by giving in on the things we voted him in to do.

    I am disappointed in Obama, but not enough to vote for the other side whose ideas and actions I still believe are far far worse.

    So, you are disappointed that he is behaving in the way he said he would during the campaign?

    There's a lot of hyperbolic nonsense that gets thrown around in Chat about Obama lately that all boils down to "la la la I wasn't listening during the entire freaking election season".

    Dems were secretly hoping he would just ram through all legislation with his supercongress.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Daxon wrote: »
    Dan Brown also makes people (not only children - far far too many adults don't read as well) read, but Dan Brown isn't full of creepy messages about abstinence and beastiality/necrophilia.

    don't forget fucking till the girls' passed out and covered in bruises

    wait

    what are objecting to here

    exactly

    Twilight

    Tav on
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    my friend is texting me about how she's watching locked up abroad and it's freaking her out

    ahaha

    Not the show to try and relax to after a smoking session, that's for sure.

    we tried that a while back so it's a running joke with us now

    we got so fucking freaked out just watching it, it's an awful trick to play on someone

    Casual Eddy on
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Nah, you have rights that can be violated. You just don't have as much recourse if they are. If it is health or safety it goes to OSHA. If it deals with disability it falls under the American's with Disabilities Act and so on. But if it is just wanting a raise or benefits. Or numerous other things that collective bargaining can bring since it can produce a semi-equal footing with employers that is where unions become extremely important.

    Until, as was the case with the various unions I have ever encountered, they become corrupt and are just another huge drain on the workers paycheck for no benefit.

    Even a "good" union can be a huge disadvantage if you are newly entering the job given how heavily they favor seniority.

    And seriously, who the hell wants to work at a department store for 20 years?

    I have no idea what you mean by this. How can it be a disadvantage?

    Also I think I should mention that this union encompasses nearly every store worker in the country and is a subsidiary of the largest union in the country which wields very considerable amounts of power given how strong their ties are to the biggest of the ruling party are

    In case I wasn't clear, I was talking about the US here.

    An example, when I was working at The Bon (mall store, now it's just called "Macys") the union took a big chunk of every paycheck (and had an outrageous "admin fee" when you started compared to the amount I was paid) but offered absolutely to services to people who were not long-timers at the store. You had to put in years to work up to the class of job where the union actually started giving a shit about you.

    For short time workers, it was just another burden.

    RiemannLives on
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  • DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    syndalis wrote: »
    so us developer folks got iPhone OS 4.1 for our iphones today.

    My signal bars look different, and it says I have 4 bars in my apartment when it said I had 5 all the time before.

    Y'know what's just great? Ever since I updated my 2nd gen ipod touch with iOS4 it has a tendency to freeze up at times.

    Daxon on
  • Just Like ThatJust Like That Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Speaking of Palin, my cynicism sense was tingling when I saw this

    Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston to star in reality show? Surprise engagement announcement sparks rumors


    See, her daughter isn't a single mother anymore! They totally love each other.

    Just Like That on
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Elendil wrote: »
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    "it's good if it makes children read" is always something that bugged me

    I like reading as much as the next guy but man watching a good film or whatever is going to be way better than reading a shitty book

    I don't know, there's shitty and there's shitty. I wouldn't want my kids reading Twilight but that's more to do with the weird messages it sends. If they want to read 5,000 Star Wars or Hardy Boys novels or whatever that's still building a habit that will serve them well later.

    but so anyway

    do you want to land some borders soon? I have been invited to go see Predators at 8 your time so I can't do an all-nighter but we could rock something for a while

    I can be on in a few minutes

    hey are you guys bordering your lands on the PC or the 360

    Pony on
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    "it's good if it makes children read" is always something that bugged me

    I like reading as much as the next guy but man watching a good film or whatever is going to be way better than reading a shitty book

    I don't know, there's shitty and there's shitty. I wouldn't want my kids reading Twilight but that's more to do with the weird messages it sends. If they want to read 5,000 Star Wars or Hardy Boys novels or whatever that's still building a habit that will serve them well later.

    but so anyway

    do you want to land some borders soon? I have been invited to go see Predators at 8 your time so I can't do an all-nighter but we could rock something for a while

    I can be on in a few minutes

    hey are you guys bordering your lands on the PC or the 360

    360

    Elendil on
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited July 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    "it's good if it makes children read" is always something that bugged me

    I like reading as much as the next guy but man watching a good film or whatever is going to be way better than reading a shitty book

    I don't know, there's shitty and there's shitty. I wouldn't want my kids reading Twilight but that's more to do with the weird messages it sends. If they want to read 5,000 Star Wars or Hardy Boys novels or whatever that's still building a habit that will serve them well later.

    but so anyway

    do you want to land some borders soon? I have been invited to go see Predators at 8 your time so I can't do an all-nighter but we could rock something for a while

    I can be on in a few minutes

    hey are you guys bordering your lands on the PC or the 360

    360

    Jacobkosh on
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Nah, you have rights that can be violated. You just don't have as much recourse if they are. If it is health or safety it goes to OSHA. If it deals with disability it falls under the American's with Disabilities Act and so on. But if it is just wanting a raise or benefits. Or numerous other things that collective bargaining can bring since it can produce a semi-equal footing with employers that is where unions become extremely important.

    Until, as was the case with the various unions I have ever encountered, they become corrupt and are just another huge drain on the workers paycheck for no benefit.

    Even a "good" union can be a huge disadvantage if you are newly entering the job given how heavily they favor seniority.

    And seriously, who the hell wants to work at a department store for 20 years?

    I have no idea what you mean by this. How can it be a disadvantage?

    Also I think I should mention that this union encompasses nearly every store worker in the country and is a subsidiary of the largest union in the country which wields very considerable amounts of power given how strong their ties are to the biggest of the ruling party are

    In case I wasn't clear, I was talking about the US here.

    An example, when I was working at The Bon (mall store, now it's just called "Macys") the union took a big chunk of every paycheck (and had an outrageous "admin fee" when you started compared to the amount I was paid) but offered absolutely to services to people who were not long-timers at the store. You had to put in years to work up to the class of job where the union actually started giving a shit about you.

    For short time workers, it was just another burden.

    wow that's bullshit.

    I'm paying maybe 2%

    and since I'm young and new I'm the type of person they even sometimes actively seek out and talk to about their workplace to see if we're getting screwed over

    people who've been working long don't need help much

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    ready

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    Elendil, would you be up for doing Crawermax whenever I get to 61? I almost done with playthrough 2 and I'm at level 52, so it shouldn't be long now.

    Nerdgasmic on
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    An interesting presentation from the ongoing WPC 2010 conference about Windows Phone / Xbox

    http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/VisionKeynoteVideos10/2/BradBrooksAndAndyLees

    RiemannLives on
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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited July 2010
    Ok, getting sammich and then on

    Jacobkosh on
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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    man, i have a feeling obama is going to be a one termer

    Its partially his own fault trying to be compromising and not trying to ram his policies through congress with an iron fist. The right wing was going to go after him no matter what he did, even if he put through every single policy they wanted it didn't matter. So better to go full bore and at least try to get things done and not piss off your base by giving in on the things we voted him in to do.

    I am disappointed in Obama, but not enough to vote for the other side whose ideas and actions I still believe are far far worse.
    Yeah, the democrats and obama have been pretty retarded about that. extending a hand and talking about bipartisanship for over a year didn't really bear any fruit.

    even with the writing mostly on the wall for the elections later this year, the democrats still haven't gotten their shit together 'cause they think that going along with Obama's policies will sink them in their local elections.

    Dynagrip on
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