PhotoDave219
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I'm all for Freelove. I hate leaving cash in an envelope on the table.
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Disney Union Workers Rally for Better Pay
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I'm all for Freelove. I hate leaving cash in an envelope on the table.
englanddg
One Little Spark...
You got assaulted by bums on the College Program?
psukardi
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If I have an intern for 3 months, I can't take a ton of time out of my schedule to get you ramped up; give you meaningful work; double-check your work and then hope I don't have to re-write it from scratch. It takes a new hire at a company a while to get up to speed on a code base. By the time you've got up to speed and I give you a few feature requests or defects your time is almost up. So it's easier to just give you grunt work, let you say you worked at a Fortune 500 and be on your way.
PhotoDave219
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No I prefer to invite them back to my apartment
englanddg
One Little Spark...
Party hardy.
Matt_Black
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Median capita income per household is one thing, what about cost of living? Or, you can say the greater Orlando area makes as much money on average as Idaho, but does stuff cost the same? Room and board, utilities, food, etc?
englanddg
One Little Spark...
So, I'll point you back to the Brooklyn numbers.
Do you want to take the stance that Brooklyn is more expensive, with respect to cost of living, than Orlando?
Or are you suggesting that Idaho Grocery stores and Gas Stations charge multiples of what people pay in Orlando?
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PhotoDave219
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Fupa Chulupa.
Cesar R M
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What about those who want to continue as a career after they end their period? Do they need to be trashed as well and never ramped up?
Also, Remember the "employees" who are complaining about low pay at disney, are not the internship ones.
englanddg
One Little Spark...
I'd suggest you review the FLSA definition of an "intern" then.
Because what you just described is not one.
PhotoDave219
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What about those who want to continue as a career after they end their period? Do they need to be trashed as well and never ramped up?
Also, Remember the "employees" who are complaining about low pay at disney, are not the internship ones.
Im not allowed to post that video.
No-strike clauses in union contracts are only valid during the life of the contract. Once the contract expires the union can go on strike. But it's not really a strike cause there is no contract.
PhotoDave219
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
The Union is largely happy to risk whatever doesn't hurt them (and I don't mean their members)...
I think the company has more to lose than the union if a work stoppage occurs. Where are they going to find 60,000 replacement workers?
slappy magoo
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The current state of the ACA (or as it is supposed to be when no facets continue to be rolled back or delayed) is that the risk is spread out amongst all insurance companies (no rejections for pre-existing conditions for example), but the insurance companies accept that risk, and the limit of profit they can make as a percentage of money they take in, in exchange for allll those government subsidies so many of their new customers will. Volume volume volume. Whether it's a "fair trade" remains to be seen.
And I'd like to point out there was never any indication that premiums would ever roll back that far to prices of the last decade. The ACA is expected to seriously the increase of healthcare costs, perhaps some years some customers will see premiums roll back. But the last decade? I guess I could have missed some sort of promise a heathcare advocate made that this would happen...
Lord_Vader
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I'll bite...
Investments in the community come in many different forms. Sure, the vast majority of jobs are low-income, service industry positions but you are forgetting all the downstream positions created by these companies that are much higher paying such as IT/CIS, network engineering, heavy construction, industrial engineering, architects, legal, and medical to name a few. These jobs are indirect for the most part but companies such as Disney, Comcast, Sea World build a lot of buildings, roads and heavily utilize infrastructure, contribute very heavily to taxes directly and indirectly and generally provide a positive net effect on the area around them.
I am not saying Disney pays front-line cast members well, but how much are area teachers paid, teachers that went to college for 4-6 years to get the undergrad or masters? In my area of the country a teacher starts at about $30,000 a year with a $5,000 bump if they have a masters degree. Pay scales are the direct result supply and demand in your area for the most part, if the job has a low skill requirement the pay is going to be generally very low unless it is also dangerous.
Lord_Vader
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I usually agree with you but we usually bring in one intern per summer, usually a college junior or senior working on their undergrad EE. We introduce them to carrier networking elements, business processes, etc. They work with us in the labs to simply get an introduction to network engineering, they are never used to make coffee or gofur as many interns are treated but we also pay them around $15hr so we tend to get the best too.
englanddg
One Little Spark...
While the title may be "intern", I would say, given your description, that it's really a part time employee.
(Grin)
Sound like a great experience!