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Welp, if you think time billing is fraud, good luck going after the lawyer that's charging you in hour increments for two-minute phone calls. Three short calls in half an hour? That's three billable hours. Whether you think it's fraud is irrelevant - the law does not, because the people that are in the business of law make a lot of money from that being the case.

"Time theft" only exists for employees. This is by design to protect wealth, like most laws regarding money. It's not fraud to bill for a made-up amount of time, it's literally how all time billing except for employee wages is done. Only "wage earners" are paid by the minute. Some employers actually calculate down to the six second interval (tenth of a minute). Meanwhile, the overnight parking garage gets to round up to the nearest four hour increment. Who's really "committing" anything here - the lady getting her job done quickly, or the folks claiming they overpaid after the job is done?

They only had her download it after she wasn’t doing her work.

> I don’t believe the explanation is as simplistic as that, what a sad
narrow view you have, no wonder your country is so polarized as it is.

It really is, if you vote for bigots, you agree enough with their bigoted views. If you didn't agree with their bigoted views, you wouldn't vote for them.

This is a universal fact, and has nothing to do with America specifically.

> what a sad narrow view you have

What's sad is you unironically defend bigots. Also makes you a disgusting excuse of a human being btw.

>So what, are these kids gonna get punished if they clap a buddy on the shoulder after winning a game or hug a friend when they're down? Sounds like they're just going to foster some really socially awkward teenagers

No.

>Students are not allowed to touch each other whilst on site. The only exceptions will be in Performing Arts, sporting activities and PE lessons, when this is required. This will help to create a calm and orderly atmosphere and ensure that there is no confusion about play fighting or anything more serious.

While the internet is largely against the policy, the parents seem to be really for it. I'm somewhat curious what led up to this.

I’ve read it like 3 times and I still don’t get it

I think productivity monitoring is bullshit. I'll agree it's nice in theory, but it's usually impossible to pull off in a fair or mostly fair way.

I'm a software developer, and I can spend a day going off in a direction that ends up being useless. Some jobs look easy but end up being very difficult and vice versa.

A friend does something to do with approving loans. Some clients are simply more difficult and complicated than others, in ways that can't be predicted by performance measuring software.

To be honest, I think the only jobs where it can work are those that have someone doing something identical in a repetitive manner, though robots have replaced most of those, or jobs that are small enough that you can mostly fit the time required to a simple equation, such as those that pack groceries for delivery.

They both literally said that they "compromised" with the lunatic fringe of the party in order to keep them under control, in their opinion. Remember Michelle Bachmann? Old Boehner said that he knew she was nuts but tried to work with her because he was afraid of her growing power.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/546142-boehner-on-bachmann-right-wing-media-made-people-who-used-to-be-fringe/

If they had acted differently and worked with Dems to box in the crazies when they were a minority, maybe things would have turned out differently. People like Ryan and Boehner were worse than the tea party/MAGA people in my opinion. They KNEW there was a problem but decided that the party was more important than the country.

That decision directly led us down the crazy train to Trump and 1/6.

>uniform says he's from the Ohio State University Marching Band

I though the name make him sound like European royalty

Well if we give a shit at all about being right specifically, not just generally... Deficit by year:

Accuracy matters, otherwise you're not helping. You're one of those people where a lot of us end up in a position of "I agree with your overall point but I fucking hate the way you made it"

Not a good person to be, imo.

A better version of that general argument would be to simply ask why deficits rose during his speakership. Should also lump in 2015 at $442B and 2019 at $984B, to make the point even more obvious. You could, of course, make a very concrete form of that argument by laying out the premises that he is both a fiscal conservative as well as acknowledges directly himself that he wielded a tremendous amount of power. But we're not exactly interviewing him, so that's a bit unnecesary.

“Democrats vote with their hearts” don’t let any of these politicians fool you.

Nice cock, but, yes, inconsiderate neighbours.

This was in Canada, it's the second word in the article.

But honestly considering how British people are with physical intimacy and showing emotion how much of a problem was this or would it ever be?

I’m sorry that you feel threatened by women who demand to be treated as equally valuable humans. The good news is that insecurity is a treatable condition.

It’s Missouri. Is anyone actually surprised?

See the thing is animals only reproduce when they have the extra energy and drive to do so. The point here is, the sea dragons are happy enough to mate in captivity, and that is the point.

Okay most companies are okay with paid smoke breaks and shitting. This woman had to do something egregious to have the company tell her to pay em. Most companies wouldn't go so hard if it wasn't that serious.

If I had an employee dicking around while they should be working and I was paying em I'd be pissed. Wouldn't you?

Also paying representatives the minimum wage is a good way to ensure that only the very wealthy can afford to run and hold office

It’s wild how much saner old GOP seems in comparison.

Ok. Make sure you punch out for every bathroom break, every personal conversation, and smoke break if you take them, and you better not work slow.

Look. If she actually just sat around and did nothing for hours on end, then yeah she should get in trouble. But the fact that they don’t mention a timeframe makes seem as if she sat for a week without working at all, when we’ve all been guilty of wasting time on the clock, and in the strictest sense, that’s stealing time. But I’ve also done favors for and helped people without being on the clock after being asked to do so, and that is on me, but for other people they are required to do work off the clock and that’s wage theft.

So you can sit here and sniff this companies taint if you want, but I don’t feel bad for them. If she truly stole time, then she got caught; I just hope that we eventually start catching more companies that are stealing time from its employees.

How about she shouldn't steal time in the first place?

Actually yes. He was the last Republican House Speaker who believed in a functional government and had no problems working across the aisle to keep the country going. His ouster signaled the end of the Republican belief in compromise, the beginning of GOP obstruction for obstructions sake, and a steady stream of incoming performative lunatics.

1 term max? So basically you want the government to be even more ineffectual?