Anyway, eat the rich, preferably tomorrow
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
“We just want to get ahead” is antisocial and depraved thinking, Ms. Silverstein
Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work is my most hated thing
― Dan I., Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
Capitalists feigning labor is the ultimate insult to actual labor
― Dan I., Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work
Let's see about that. there are 168 hours in a week. If you work 100 of those hours and sleep exactly 6 hours every night, that leaves exactly 26 hours a week or 3.75 hours a day to do everything else in one's life, including eating, shitting, peeing, paying bills, buying groceries, staring at the wall, and somehow maintain one's sanity.
However, if you take one day a week off from work, that leaves exactly 2 hours distributed evenly through the other 6 days in which to cram all the rest of your non-working life. Hmmm. Seems kinda unlikely to me.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
I was gonna say. I’ve worked some seventy hour weeks before, and they nearly pushed me to the point of exhaustion.
― rb (soda), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
For the six months after I graduated from high school, I worked 60 hours a week waiting tables - I lost 45 pounds and have no real memories of the six months.
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
They are counting the time they spend checking and responding to their work from wherever.
― Yerac, Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
I simply hate the valorization of 'always working'. People who talk about how they're always on the job, married to their work, never want to retire etc. Really bums me out! Possibly related to why I'm currently unemployed...
― chinavision!, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
I really enjoy being very busy at work, working weekends. I’m not going to work any more than 50 hours a week most weeks, though. Nor do I consider it a badge of honor, it’s just like an addiction.
― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
We had a lot of 70, 80+ yr old men at my old job. They were completely useless but had the years, money and status to still make people do their bidding. Basically they were just wheeled out for clients but like, couldn't use a computer. All their admins had all their passwords. TO get them to retire they got super nice sunset retirement agreements where they could still get paid from their past clients even though they were no longer employed.
― Yerac, Saturday, 19 May 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
ironic, considering the source, but nevertheless
@felixsalmon30-year-old buys a $750k place in the East Village, has a bad experience renovating it, then finds it cramped, so she sells it for $1m and buys a $2.4m place in Williamsburg instead. Your weekend hate-read: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/realestate/for-house-flippers-reality-meets-reality-tv.html
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
750 in the east village almost sounds reasonable.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:20 (six years ago) link
so this whole ali watkins situation
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/style/what-is-a-soul-salon.html
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I felt such a sense of deep embarrassment at just the headline, photo and caption that I couldn't read any further.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
it gets worse
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
The Caligula stage of late capitalism is so fucking dull.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
guyz she's buddies with julia allison and they co-emcee events together its 2006 all over again
― carles danger maus (s.clover), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
do you think glenn thrush got a mentor pic.twitter.com/Mv60QaRkie— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 3, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
NYC is the most obliviously and proudly parochial place in the world pic.twitter.com/79hB4uDwp6— Daniel Kay Hertz (@DanielKayHertz) July 14, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Last Sunday they ran a one-page Your Five-Year Plan Before Retirement.
A key paragraph began, roughly, "Let's say you have $1.5 million in your 401k..."
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
the response to the quinn norton debacle has been kind of encouraging:
http://fortune.com/2018/07/23/susan-fowler-new-york-times/https://www.nytco.com/sarah-jeong-joins-the-timess-editorial-board/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Our statement in response to criticism of the hiring of Sarah Jeong. pic.twitter.com/WryIgbaoqg— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 2, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
jfc this newspaper is a lost cause
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
god forbid the Times actually do the right thing, which would be issue a statement that said, in full: "It's not possible to be racist against white people, you absolute chucklefucks."
― evol j, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
I mean, white men are bullshit. wtf.
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
The cursor in the statement really adds to the earnest tone.
― mick signals, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
I thought the statement was fine
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
me too tbh
― marcos, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Especially since people land in fb jail for saying men/white people are trash but it's fine to threaten, dox or use slurs against minorities and women there. Was it cernovich and his minions enraging people about this?
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I agree w/ evol that the statement is dumb. SJ did absolutely nothing wrong from what I can tell.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
lmao I forgot she was the one who was involved with the Matt Bruenig/Demos fracas from whenever that happened
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-york-times-sarah-jeong
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
What tone policing bullshit. Instead, the Times should have said gfy this is our hire, you can't shame us by accusing us of caring about equity because we refuse to consider it shameful and will say so, repeatedly, using all our communication skillsets. Instead of "We told this person who you hate and are sending death-threats to that she has been a very very bad girl, and will have to go to the time-out corner if she continues to tell the teachers that you threw rocks at her during recess. She knows better now, and you can throw all the rocks you want. You're welcome. Please read our newspaper please please please please"
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, 2 August 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
^^^
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 2 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
the tweets were stupid (though obviously not 'racist'), the times statement is fine, and the verge article is otm. the times is doing the right thing by standing by her and everything is going to be ok
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 August 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
everything will be "ok" but the times doesn't get it, and that's a problem.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djn6gRvU0AArgws.jpg
few do
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
in orbit otm
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
The BBC News can fuck off with that Fox News headline.
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
ffs bbc
also ffs anyone who caves to trolls on this crap. also her tweets were funny and need no defense qed fuiud.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
and yerac ohm if this entire sad little episode proves anything it's that white men are bullshit
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
lol thank u autocorrect. yerac OTM
k3vin otm
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
liberals really need to stop falling for this racism-baiting. 90% of the people yelling about this are not concerned about "racism," they are angry that they or people like them get called out for racism and are jumping at the chance to call "hypocrisy."
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 3 August 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djwt_FLUwAACPJV.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Excuse me what
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 4 August 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Wait actually I do not care what
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 4 August 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Every sentence in that is a mess.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 August 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link