OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[thedddd]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/warriors-offer-100-tickets-without-view-court-225925498.html

Lets see $100 and to either pay for parking or mass transit to sit at a bar in the area? Why?!?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Re amazon:

The wages they pay at fullfillment centres actually are high when you compare them to similar low skilled warehouse positions in other industries. In our market, they advertise $18.50 per hour. That hurts alot of “smaller” businesses who cant compete with that wage. That being said, amazon chews up and spits out these people. And they usually quit when they decide they would like to go to the bathroom

From the perspective of the high skilled “tech” worker, they get paid high wages based on the competitive market for their skills. The one thing Ill point out is that you can have a software engineer from Asia (on a work visa) sitting next to a guy born in north america in a downtown Seattle office doing the same job and being paid less

 

[dash]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/warriors-offer-100-tickets-without-view-court-225925498.html

Lets see $100 and to either pay for parking or mass transit to sit at a bar in the area? Why?!?

Oilers were charging fans $80 just to gain access to the concourse at Rogers Place (no way to view the game) when they made the playoffs in 2017. Of course, when you make the playoffs once in a blue moon, you can probably get away with that kind of crap.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Re amazon:

The wages they pay at fullfillment centres actually are high when you compare them to similar low skilled warehouse positions in other industries. In our market, they advertise $18.50 per hour. That hurts alot of “smaller” businesses who cant compete with that wage. That being said, amazon chews up and spits out these people. And they usually quit when they decide they would like to go to the bathroom

From the perspective of the high skilled “tech” worker, they get paid high wages based on the competitive market for their skills. The one thing Ill point out is that you can have a software engineer from Asia (on a work visa) sitting next to a guy born in north america in a downtown Seattle office doing the same job and being paid less

I think they just raised the fulfillment center wages in the US after everybody was giving them shit for it. It's low-skill work and people aren't going to get paid anything resembling a living wage there but when the company is pushing $1 trillion valuations and Bezos has more money than many countries it's not a good corporate look.

 

[thedddd]

^ Ocasio-Cortez Claims New Yorkers Are ‘Outraged’ Over Opening of New Amazon Headquarters


Seems Queens is already not happy.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

The Haunting of a Dream House

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

^ Ocasio-Cortez Claims New Yorkers Are ‘Outraged’ Over Opening of New Amazon Headquarters


Seems Queens is already not happy.

I saw somewhere that it was $50k in tax breaks for every Amazon job in NYC, with an average earning per employee of $150k.

That may seem like the government is donating 1/3 of salaries until you consider the downstream benefits – construction work, services companies who will supply & maintain the offices, other companies that spring up as a result of Amazon’s locating there, increased property tax & income tax (NYC is a three-hit jurisdiction for income taxes) from new arrivals & increased property values, etc. Throw all of that in, the city & state are getting a pretty good ROI there.

Now, does any of that help the people Ortiz is talking about? Not really, although we can argue about many of the things she nitpicks at for days - NYC’s subway and transit system, even with its faults, are still miles better than anything else you’ll find on this side of the world (and maybe anywhere else period) and attracting a high volume of high-end employment to the city does have a trickle-down effect that can be considered “investing in the community” (although I’m sure what she actually means by that is completely reversing the NYC real estate market which, well, good luck with that). But for a city like NY, it is a deal that should pan out pretty well for it.

 

[dash]

If you don't have a few pops when curling, you're doing it wrong...

 

[puckhead]

If you don't have a few pops when curling, you're doing it wrong...

mattola curls as well, and i had one one my favourite latin posts ever

 

[esls79]

I was taught at a youngish age that curling sober was cheating.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Good to see dupester is still alive and “well”

 

[mattola]

Good to see dupester is still alive and “well”

Shitty

 

[thedddd]

American missionary killed by tribe on remote Indian island

An actual Darwin award winner.

Stupid on many levels but here are the top 2:
1. You don't go to North Sentinel Island
2. Dumb enough to think they would believe in Jesus.

 

[Comeds]

American missionary killed by tribe on remote Indian island

An actual Darwin award winner.

Stupid on many levels but here are the top 2:
1. You don't go to North Sentinel Island
2. Dumb enough to think they would believe in Jesus.

Have they found Michael Rockefeller yet?

 

[mattola]

American missionary killed by tribe on remote Indian island

An actual Darwin award winner.

Stupid on many levels but here are the top 2:
1. You don't go to North Sentinel Island
2. Dumb enough to think they would believe in Jesus.

I have zero sympathy here. Guy asked for it .guess Jesus didn't want him to do it either....

 

[jstewismybastardson]

This is odd

 

[dare2be]

This is odd

Even I think so.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Even I think so.

That's the same airport where a guy stole a plane and crashed it into an island, right?

This isn't even the weirdest thing to happen there this year.

 

[forty_three]

This is odd

 

[jstewismybastardson]

American missionary killed by tribe on remote Indian island

An actual Darwin award winner.

Stupid on many levels but here are the top 2:
1. You don't go to North Sentinel Island
2. Dumb enough to think they would believe in Jesus.

Interesting