https://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/examining_the_uneven_and_hard_to_predict_labor_market_recovery
this is pretty long and technical, and i get the feeling you can see what you want to see in the current job numbers, and while that is true they may not worth a lot more than anecdotal interviews with workers and business owners, but the section on "Changing composition of work" is relevant to this discussion.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
maybe just as a wild idea try going to the restaurants that don't have a NO ONE WANTS TO WORK banner hanging off their awning
my dream is to start painting over these signs and banners when i see them, to: NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR WHAT WE PAY HERE
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
those signs should just get to the point and say "1. the owner is an asshole 2. we mistreat our current employees".
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
In high school when I was a dishwasher at a small town pizza place, the lead cook (also owner's failson) was a complete dick. One night he and a buddy "hilariously" filled my car door locks with Elmer's Glue (thankfully nothing worse, but still a pain in the ass to dig out), stole my gas cap (I had a 1981 Firebird so it was kind of a pain to track down a replacement) and let the air out of my tires.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 June 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
but was the job fun?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 June 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
It was infinitely more fun eight months later when I was "promoted" to pizza cook/delivery driver and spent 70% of my time driving around town, making significantly more in tips, driving an '83 Escort with R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People permanently stuck in the tape deck and a stick shift that had a tendency to pop out of place when shifting from third to fourth gear.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 June 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
Their "New Jersey"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
wha? RONG
Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and Up are potential New Jerseys but Automatic is surely safely in the classic period
i will fite u
― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
That's really a callback to the time I said the exact same thing in the actual "New Jersey" thread and let me tell you, the fite happened and I fot alone
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
what's the frequency, eephus
― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
my withdrawal from the "New Jersey" thread in defeat was not the same as apathy
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
is that an REM lyric?
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
it was before I got to it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
oh wait it's from Slacker! but now my brain thinks everything is an REM lyric
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
It's a quote from Slacker repurposed by R.E.M. into a lyric
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
I drive past where they filmed that scene all the time, where 13th Street hits I-35 on the East Side. Amazingly enough after 30 years it looks exactly the same!
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
my worst restaurant job-working experience
someone gave me free Foreigner tickets
to the Gramm-less, hired gun Foreigner.
still haven't recovered.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
wow, that's cold as ice
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
Gramm booted, now we're real badGot a singer from a classified ad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
Those dirty white boys playin' head games with u need an urgent kick in the head til they have double vision imo
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 June 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Why has Victoria/Melbourne been having all the covid problems?
80% of Australia's 910 covid deaths have been in aged care homes in Melbourne. 40% of Melbourne's aged-care deaths last year were in just 10 homes. There have been 174 separate outbreaks in aged care homes in the state of Victoria; in 146 of those, a staff member was the index case.The government set a target of vaccinating aged care residents and workers ahead of any other class, and promised to have them fully vaccinated before April.The federal Aged Care Minister has repeatedly insisted this week that he is "comfortable" with the amount of vaccinations achieved against this target, while also stating that he literally has no idea how many of them have been dispensed. The Health Department followed up yesterday, when people kept asking the minister and he declined to bother to find out, with an announcement that they estimated (via phoning some facilities that morning) 8.7% of staff have been vaccinated.― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:12 AM (three days ago)
The government set a target of vaccinating aged care residents and workers ahead of any other class, and promised to have them fully vaccinated before April.
The federal Aged Care Minister has repeatedly insisted this week that he is "comfortable" with the amount of vaccinations achieved against this target, while also stating that he literally has no idea how many of them have been dispensed. The Health Department followed up yesterday, when people kept asking the minister and he declined to bother to find out, with an announcement that they estimated (via phoning some facilities that morning) 8.7% of staff have been vaccinated.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:12 AM (three days ago)
More today from the Guardian:
The four private companies responsible for vaccinating the aged care sector have given conflicting accounts about whether the government ever contracted them to inoculate staff, prompting further criticism about the confusing and delayed rollout.
The federal government, in the early stages of the rollout, said it would rely on private contractors to vaccinate 183,000 aged care residents and 339,000 staff, using in-reach teams that would attend each facility.
But the government’s in-reach teams focussed overwhelmingly on vaccinating residents, and data this week showed just 32,833 staff – less than 10% – were given the jab by in-reach teams, largely using leftovers from residents in accordance with the government’s excess dose policy.
The government’s panel of surge vaccination workforce providers – Aspen Medical, Healthcare Australia, International SOS and Sonic Clinical Services – have since given differing accounts on whether they were contracted to vaccinate staff.
Earlier this week, the Age reported that Aspen Medical was never contracted to vaccinate staff, quoting a company spokesman.
The company told the Guardian on Thursday that, in fact, it was contractually obliged to vaccinate staff.
“Aspen Medical has vaccination of aged care staff as part of its contractual obligations, and in that context has already vaccinated over 20,000 staff,” a spokesman said.
Healthcare Australia initially told the Guardian it was “contracted to provide vaccinations for aged care residents only”.
But it subsequently clarified it was “contracted to provide vaccinations to both the aged care residents and the workforce but was instructed by the department to prioritise the residents”.
Sonic Clinical Services, brought on after Aspen and HCA, said it was not contracted to do staff vaccinations.
“We have not been contracted to provide in-reach vaccination services to Residential Age Care staff in Victoria (or elsewhere) and have not been involved in a tender process to do so,” chief executive, Dr Ged Foley, said.
The fourth company, International SOS, refused to answer questions about what it was being paid by taxpayers to do, instead referring the Guardian to the health department.
These private contractors have so far been paid $76 million to not vaccinate the primary vectors of transmission in Australia's COVID deaths.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link
private contractors have so far been paid $76 million to not vaccinate
^^ reminder that the country has a national public health service that could have done this, instead of tendering the opportunity to not do it
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 7 June 2021 06:35 (three years ago) link
Since Trader Joe's was always among the more consistently conscious stores locally, they have sort of been my default standard for how things are going. Context first, I live in an overwhelmingly educated/liberal/vaccinated part of Chicagoland, and equally overcautious; they just cancelled our Fourth of July parade (though the pool is now open on a timed-in/out basis, so who knows). Anyway, last time I went to Trader Joe's, most of the staff was unmasked, so checking out I took off my mask, too. This time, I went in unmasked, one of my first times doing that anywhere in 14 months, and while the staff was still mostly unmasked, there were a few masked employees, and the vast majority of the clientele *was* masked. I bumped into a friend (unmasked) that works there and asked what's up. I guess there is a lot of stuff at play. There are of course some people with small kids that can't be vaxxed yet. There are some older people that, while vaxxed, still feel more comfortable with the mask on. And there are some other people that are vaxxed but wear a mask because they've been conditioned to and are psychologically not ready to go unmasked. (I spoke with another employee that was vaxxed, but his wife had only just gotten the second jab, so after talking it over with her determined that he would keep the mask on, at least for a while longer.) Anyway, it felt really, really weird being among the 10% (max) without a mask, and while I didn't feel like I was being That Guy, nor did I catch anyway reacting negatively, I definitely felt out of place. I suppose these feelings and behaviors (both mine and theirs) will fade with time.
For her part, my friend said her biggest challenge was having gotten used to making faces at shoppers from behind her mask, and needing to get out of the habit now that her mouth is not hidden.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
I wonder if it is indeed possible to make a "face" with your mouth but not your eyes. I kinda think the eyes reinforce the mouth to a large degree.
― henry s, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Ha, I was kinda wondering the same thing. Any face I would make at (or in response to) someone annoying would definitely be reflected in my eyes as well.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
She specifically said she would mouth various profanities to bad shoppers, actually, so I guess that needs your mouth.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Def done a silent fuck you under the mask with smiling eyes a few times
― nicole, Monday, 7 June 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
Muttering under the mask makes sense and I've been there, I guess I'm just not talented enough to avoid scrunching my eyes when I frown or grimace.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
Just get someone to print your normal mouth onto a mask. Then you look maskless but you can still tell people to fuck off
― stations of the croissanwich (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
can't turn my mask into a heart
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/world/florida-covid-19-cases-vaccine.html
fucking MORONS.
other states apparently joining. this will make data and trend analysis much more difficult. thanks, home state, once again.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
oh I saw this last week
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 June 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
i missed it but I figured out something was afoot when we had several days of 0 cases :/
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 June 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
NEW: latest data now show a clear rise in hospital admissions in the UK, and numbers could climb rapidly.Admissions & patient numbers in the North West are ~straight lines on a log-scale: exponential growthOur story, with @mroliverbarnes & @AndyBounds: https://t.co/r88OUAEdUs pic.twitter.com/vuaAoHh5WA— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) June 8, 2021
note this is a log plot so the absolute numbers are still relatively small, but UK new cases have been rising for a few weeks and overtook the US about a week ago https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-03-20..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_deaths_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=USA~ISR~GBR.
the UK is only just offering 25ish year olds their first dose, and is delaying second doses (that seem to be necessary to confer protection against 2021 variants) by 12 weeks, so this seems about what you'd expect tbh :(
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
I had seen the beginnings of that a week ago, had hoped it was a temporary anomaly :(
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
in the US, it's going to be difficult to tell if/when we see increases again, if other states besides Florida also move to weekly reporting instead of daily (Johns Hopkins is fuming about this on their site). this week, the 7-day average of cases and deaths sharply jumped upward from Sunday to Monday, but that was expected, as the unnaturally low reporting on Memorial Day weekend fell out of the 7-day rolling period. hospitalizations however have continued to go down during the same period as their reporting didn't seem to be interrupted by the holiday.
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
I noticed that uptick too. I wonder if three weeks after the CDC's latest recommendations we'll ever see a spike.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
To be fair the official policy is now 8 weeks for second doses for over 40s (and has officially been 8 weeks for over 50s for a while). Unofficially it's been 8 weeks for at least over 40s for weeks now (you can just book online for 8 weeks to the day from your first dose), and unofficially it's less than that (e.g. I got my second dose at 6 weeks to the day). Not sure what the situation is for under 40s but I don't think it's likely to turn out to be anything like 12 weeks in practice.
In addition the vaccination percentages (for both first and second doses) are ahead of the US and the gap will presumably increase significantly in coming weeks unless something very odd happens (like massive vaccine hesitancy in young UK people, or a big turnaround in US vaccination rates), so my best guess is that this is more about the delta variant than anything else (either that or random bad luck where some communities were somehow never hit before and are being hit now).
― toby, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 08:44 (three years ago) link
I'd say it's the Delta variant.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 08:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my sister (UK, in her '40s, preggers) is pretty frustrated, because first they wouldn't give the vaccine to pregnant women, and now that she finally got the first jab she has to wait that extra bit for the second. But she's at least relieved she'll be fully vaxxed well before her due date.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
apparently with Pfizer at least, it's only 33% effective against Delta variant after one dose, 88% after two. so that does seem to be the culprit.
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
The UK situation is certainly delta variant but a different dose strategy and/or more use of mRNA vaccines would have helped.The US might (probably will tbh) see the same thing. Most people who got vaccinated here got a more effective vaccine with less delay, but fewer people are vaccinated and we’re just doing it and being legends wrt masks, reopening a etc.Vaccine numbers for the us are wrong here (see thread) but delta is extremely here.
The delta (B.1.617.2) variant is clearly outcompeting alpha (B.1.1.7) in the US, d/t both enhanced transmissibility and immune evasion, on its way to becoming dominantOur 2-dose vaccines provide powerful protectionBut 42% no vaccination; 52% 1-dosehttps://t.co/vBFxb0SgaQ pic.twitter.com/JqMOs8kikX— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 9, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
if it's 48% no vaccination, then "52% one dose" doesn't seem right?
― eisimpleir (crĂĽt), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
or does he mean 52% of those who have been vaccinated have only gotten 1 dose?
― eisimpleir (crĂĽt), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
I think I saw that Chicago is down to less than 100 cases a day, the lowest since the start of the pandemic. Fingers crossed.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
this was his follow up, fwiw
That should be 48% Americans without any vaccination (not 42%)Latest @CDCgov datahttps://t.co/xqLwtfAwQn pic.twitter.com/qepoTA87PF— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 9, 2021
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
It's kind of creepy and predicable that even vaccination reveals a near 50/50 divide.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
At least I can take some solace in my City being 70% fully vaccinated (85% with at least 1 dose) as of June 1st. One of the ways living in a liberal bubble helps, I suppose.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
surprised nobody has devised a vaccine of pure COVID and people haven't defiantly infected themselves.
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
The US case numbers look like they've stopped their rapid decline and that feels like bad news -- I have truly been believing that the level of vsccination was such that even in the less vaxxed states we were just looking at questions about speed of decline. i.e. I thought we had a lot of cushion away from the tipping point. Hope that's true.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link