It makes me a little frustrated to see questions like this one, where there is a clear and legally correct answer yet people who don't understand that are providing commentary and answers that have no basis in facts: workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154728/…
I try to comment and add clarity when this happens but sometimes I wonder if I come off too strongly when doing so. What does everyone else think?
@dwizum amen to that.. questions like that apply to the UK always drive me nuts for the same reason. You often get a great deal of US-centric or pub-expert rubbish.
While Joe hasn't fully cited the appropriate DoL info his answer isn't "wrong" in the same was another user's who is arguing in comments and repeatedly insisting on patently incorrect information
Yeah. I mean, to be clear, I like Joe's answer. I upvoted his answer and Dmitry's. What I don't like is comments (now deleted) saying things like, Americans are one step away from North Koreans. Or, answers that literally say "the employer can do whatever they want, too bad" or stuff like that. Those are just wrong, and portraying the US as a lawless wild west where anything goes and there are no employee protections is wrong and feels insulting.
@dwizum I mean, in a sense, if you're in a work contract with a big corp with mandatory arbitration provision the access-to-justice angle can become prevalent
@dwizum yeah.. I mean there are some pretty fast and loose ways that employment works in Yankland but that just makes it all the more important for sites like TWP to separate fact from fiction as it were
@Magisch yes - but in the case where there's a clear law, I think we have the obligation to at least explain that what the employer is doing is wrong, instead of literally just saying "too bad, employers can do anything in America, there are no protections."
@Bee they're too busy working out how much they have to tip the barista's mother for giving birth to them. It's a complex calculation that has to take into account whether the mother was receiving child support or not so it might take a while
imo a lot of the answers saying "this specific minor thing is illegal for your employer to do" neglect the "you'll have a terrible time if you take your boss to court over a minor overtime discrepancy" angle
I lived in England for a few months as an 18 year old, right when I arrived we were discussing differences in tipping culture and one of my local friends told me you have to tip everywhere in the UK, even for fast food. That made for a few days of hilarity before I caught on.
I made good money on tips but what kills you is they tax you on your checks and assume you've been tipped even if you haven't been. Most people are cool but I hear some cities like New York add the tip in because tourists don't know
@Bee it kind of depends on how the place runs payroll and how much tipping gets reported. Sometimes it can work against you
I had nights as a bartender where I'd take home $1,000+ in tips for a single night and only pay a few dollars in taxes, and other nights at another place where I'd take home maybe $100 a night but end up paying $50 in tax
I heard before that some servers in the US have to tip out the other staff, so pay e.g 10% of the sale volume of tables they handle to be divided between the other staff, and keep the rest
@Bee the case when you can come off worse is basically if it's perceived that you were tipped a large amount of cash (and then they tax you on those tips) but you really didn't get much tipping at all, you get taxed on the amount they think you got tipped. So, yeah, you're right, you can never be punished for being tipped in cash, but sometimes you get taxed as if you were, when you weren't
@Magisch I remember a question asking "can my boss say this to me" to which I replied "Your boss can say whatever the hell they like. Unless you're willing to sue them in court, nobody's going to stop them". It wasn't particularly well received.
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yeah basically I want to be able to specify a list of user IDs in a query and see how the timelines of their activities line up (i.e. were they ever active at the same time)
and just to be clear, this is much more for my own curiosity than out of any desire to actually make a serious suggestion of who the person is, publicly, or any sort of actual action against anyone
I might just grab a text list of activity dates and do the comparison in another tool
yeah, the trick is I wanted to check for "sequential" activity, i.e. every time user 1 does thing X, it's within a few minutes of user Y having done something
I know I can get it once I have the raw data, I just need to find where in SEDE the deleted stuff ends up. I can't find it anywhere. It's not in POSTS and it's not in POSTHISTORY at least
I'll put the data in a calendar heatmap in PowerBI once I have it, it should be obvious if there's a pattern or not
Also, does anyone know the date on which the first instance of this spammer showed up?
yeah, that looks like just a tally of deleted things related to questions (i.e. a count of how many comments have been deleted from a question), not a list of actual deleted questions
this question is deleted, and isn't in POSTS or POSTSWITHDELETED or POSTHISTORY: 154669
I'm not sure if deleted content is stored permanently, since once a deleted question is a certain age (a few days?) you get a 404
I'm confused about something in my rep alert tracker in the SE bar at the top of the screen:
It shows a -19 on a recent answer I posted (yikes!), but that answer itself shows two upvotes and two downvotes. Is that users being removed, or something like that?
@Bee on "traditional" laptop form factors I think it's more of a gimmick then anything else - on laptop/tablet hybrids though it's much more useful (obviously)
In some cases I've even found it distracting, when someone tries to point at a laptop screen and unintentionally moves the mouse. We have a touch sensitive screen in our main conference room here, and no one seems to remember it's touch, so it's a pretty frequent thing that people will go to point at a graph or something and inadvertently click on it.
At home though my chromebook is touch and I love it!
At some point during the day, quoted background, in I assume CSS, has been switched from yellow to white.
This is harder to find within an existing text, since the background color is the same for the whole text.
For some, white is harder on the eyes anyway together with the thin letters.
I...
Update
Sorry for the delay! I’ve been thinking about this feedback in between my other projects, and I’ve landed where I’ve started 😕
I’ve made sure to continue highlighting spoilers in gray. The differentiation from normal blockquotes is super important since their behavior is so different. I...
This new blockquote look is crap. It makes long answers look more like a wall of text and doesn't break things up visually like the yellow background did
At some point during the day, quoted background, in I assume CSS, has been switched from yellow to white.
This is harder to find within an existing text, since the background color is the same for the whole text.
For some, white is harder on the eyes anyway together with the thin letters.
I...
Update
Sorry for the delay! I’ve been thinking about this feedback in between my other projects, and I’ve landed where I’ve started 😕
I’ve made sure to continue highlighting spoilers in gray. The differentiation from normal blockquotes is super important since their behavior is so different. I...
This seems a reasonable idea to me, perhaps even with a lower threshold than other flags.
The suggestion of flagging as 'Spam' is factually incorrect.
