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Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:28 pm

http://nypost.com/2016/06/12/professor- ... d-22-kids/

sardis · Post by **sardis** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:42 pm

Can't deliver for two women in one day?

Lightweight.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:09 pm

Sardis drives for Jimmy John's.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:04 pm

Oh, the reckoning is coming...

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/article ... rowed-time

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:34 pm

hard for me to imagine how they lose money. don't they just skim money off the top and let the driver carry all the risk? I figured every driver was just a franchisee of Uber.

I guess there is no free ride...or a cheap one either

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:53 pm

I thought they had valued that company at like $25 billion just recently...

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:53 pm

They give so many deals (to obtain drivers and acquire customers) that they are essentially subsidizing the rides of the passengers. They also have normal overhead from staff, insurance, infrastructure, etc. Their cost per ride is a net negative, apparently.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:54 pm

hedge wrote:I thought they had valued that company at like $25 billion just recently...

Valuations are only what people are willing to pay...and they are forward looking.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 9:39 pm

Drive your own fucking car you lazy shits.

DooKSucks · Post by **DooKSucks** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:19 pm

But not if you're drunk...unless you want to be like Rat...

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 8:30 pm

Well, there is that.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 9:19 pm

I've a breathalyzer in my car for 12 years now. I'm not that dumb.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:43 pm

This is my friend's brother's company

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/anki-cozmo-ai-robot-toy/

She has played with prototype and it looks cool. The next thing is figuring out how to make it a must-have commodity...and not a novelty. Pushing blocks around will only provide so much enjoyment.

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:40 pm

Bklyn wrote:This is my friend's brother's company

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/anki-cozmo-ai-robot-toy/

She has played with prototype and it looks cool. The next thing is figuring out how to make it a must-have commodity...and not a novelty. Pushing blocks around will only provide so much enjoyment.

I started reading it and then the website threw me off for using an ad blocker

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:43 pm

I have 12 new college students that started June 6. June 15 or so I gave them their company iPhones.

Today one exceeded the phone plan by sending 2,153 texts since he had his phone activated.

That's roughly 153 texts per day.

on a company phone.

I know this because he sent me an email asking why he doesn't have unlimited texting on his company supplied phone.

smh

sardis · Post by **sardis** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:33 pm

What phone plan still around doesn't have unlimited text?

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:36 pm

Really. eCat is doing a shitty job saving money for his company. Clearly he's become distracted by his dream of a hill jack revolution

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:47 pm

Saint wrote:Really. eCat is doing a shitty job saving money for his company. Clearly he's become distracted by his dream of a hill jack revolution

like I'm in charge of the fucking phone plans around here.

and no kid straight out of college is going to have 153 business related texts a day.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:53 pm

eCat's story reminds me of this that I read this morning

I was able to get a summer internship at a company that does work in the industry I want to work in after I graduate. Even though the division I was hired to work in doesn't deal with clients or customers, there still was a very strict dress code. I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn't going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code....

I soon found out that many of the other interns felt the same way, and the ones who asked their managers about it were told the same thing as me. We decided to write a proposal stating why we should be allowed someone leeway under the dress code. We accompanied the proposal with a petition, signed by all of the interns (except for one who declined to sign it) and gave it to our managers to consider. Our proposal requested that we also be allowed to wear running shoes and non leather flats, as well as sandals (not flip-flops though) and other non-dress shoes that would fit under a more business casual dress code....

The next day, all of us who signed the petition were called into a meeting where we thought our proposal would be discussed. Instead, we were informed that due to our "unprofessional" behavior, we were being let go from our internships. We were told to hand in our ID badges and to gather our things and leave the property ASAP...

We were shocked. The proposal was written professionally like examples I have learned about in school, and our arguments were thought out and well-reasoned. We weren't even given a chance to discuss it. The worst part is that just before the meeting ended, one of the managers told us that the worker who was allowed to disobey the dress code was a former soldier who lost her leg and was therefore given permission to wear whatever kind of shoes she could walk in. You can't even tell, and if we had known about this we would have factored it into our argument...

I have never had a job before (I've always focused on school) and I was hoping to gain some experience before I graduate next year. I feel my dismissal was unfair and would like to ask them to reconsider but I'm not sure the best way to go about it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.askamanager.org/2016/06/i-wa ... -code.html

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:59 pm

How about having a fucking discussion with a manager, non-confrontational, about the dress code? That's my advice. Starting a letter writing, petition campaign is shameful shit and annoying. I would have fired them, too, if it wasn't for the fact that I wouldn't want to find new interns at this late stage of the game.

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