Posts by TheSteve 10 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2010
"Exactly how smart and worldly-wise were you when you were (to all intents and purposes) a kid?"
She's 25. She's been eligible to vote in at least one if not two prior presidential elections. If she's not old enough to take responsibility for her decisions now, at what age will she be?
"And isn't "with only fairy dreams about how surely it has to work out" the American fucking Dream?"
Only if you're a Bernie supporter.
Sure, if you started out in a sustainable state but things changed (e.g., rent goes up faster than wages) then that's an unfortunate situation deserving of sympathy. But when you willingly enter a situation that's unsustainable from the get-go, with only fairy dreams about how surely it has to work out because the universe couldn't possibly be so unfair to me, then it's very hard to sympathize.
If Yelp actually promised her a better job in less than 12 months but then backed out, then it's their fault. But she doesn't say that. If she just assumed going in that she would be getting a better position and didn't ask until after she was there how long that would take, then it's back on her. Since when is having to wait 12 months for a promotion/reassignment not "reasonable"?
And I never said anything about unemployment for life. I'm sure there are many cities in the US in which she could live comfortably on $1300/mo. Note that at least one of her coworkers wisely made such a move "east". She may only need to go as far as Sacramento (cost of living index there is 117, compared to SF's 184), and she still might not be far from her dad, depending on where exactly he lives.
Not to mention that, if she (and enough others) refused to take this underpaying job, then Yelp would eventually figure out that they need to offer more money, which would be a much more effective strategy than taking the job but complaining about it later. Given the retention problems she mentions, it seems like most everyone else at her level figured this out well before she did.
Sure, Yelp may be scum, but it's not like she was forced to accept the job. How many months did it take her to figure out paying $1200/mo rent on $1300/mo take-home pay was not sustainable? Seems like it would have been a lot less traumatic to say "I can't afford to live here" up front rather than setting herself up for failure. Kind of like the person that goes deep into debt to get a non-marketable college degree, then complains about it being hard to pay off those loans based on a Starbucks wage. Hard to feel too much empathy for someone who willingly set themselves up to fail.
Maybe your irony got lost because your point is misguided. Freedom to discriminate may be a freedom that should be curtailed in business settings, but it is a freedom nonetheless---arguably it's the necessary flip side of freedom of association. The whole point of this debate is how do we balance one person's freedoms vs. another person's rights.
I"m hoping that's not three thumbs down for "actually reading the bill". Sorry about the Nazis in the title, that was an unfortunate autofill mistake in my browser (based on the last thread I commented on, on some other article). Perhaps Godwin's Law has powers we have yet to understand...
> we should replace the words 'Gay' 'Lesbian' and 'transgender' with the word 'Black' when reading this bill
> Because then it would be rightly tossed in the garbage bin where it really belongs
Maybe you should actually read the bill instead of buying into the hype... those words do not appear anywhere in the bill.
http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/2/b/a/92bab197/SB0101.05.ENRS.pdf
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