Random links
- 100-km Chinese traffic jam enters Day 9
- "Another driver, Wang, told Xinhua he'd been stuck in the traffic jam for three days and two nights. 'We are advised to take detours, but I would rather stay here since I will travel more distance and increase my costs,' Wang said." Biking and/or walking might be faster it would seem
- TDSB’s $143 school pencil sharpener just the beginning
- "At one school, Emery Collegiate Institute in North York, a work crew was summoned to hang three pictures one day in March 2011, a job that took seven hours and cost $266. Eight days later, workers were once again called to the same school to “hang three pictures on the wall.” That time, workers billed for 24 hours at a cost to taxpayers of $857." Reminds me a certain several hundred dollar incident that happened during my undergrad where some folks got billed that amount to have someone turn a light switch on one evening and then off the following day as they had to call a separate employee to campus for a 4 hour minimum shift at double time and a half (long weekend) as it wasn't in the job description of the security guard there to flip the light switch.
- They’re Taking Over!
- Somewhat disturbingly the pictures in this article on jellyfish taking over the ocean are from BC.
- I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
- "My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine." The sort of job that seems likely to be almost entirely automated very soon. It'll leave some people out of work but is that necessarily a bad thing?