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walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Even outside the US - there was some of this.

I was in Brighton Conference Centre (Uk) where Tony Blair was due to give a very heavily trailed speech.

After Tower one got hit we all went out of the main auditorium - I then realized I had stupidly left my bag unattended and had to go back and retrieve it.

After tower two got hit a lot of us started to think what if they have a plane targeting Tony and this building - though its a grim thing to say the RAF QRA where armed
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
And for salaried jobs you normally don't get OT you just mange your own time and take TOIL.
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Your quite correct here also:

This is a charity and they are notorious as bad employers / workplaces.

Its also not clear if the Job is a real professional salaried job or not - from some of the attitude I suspect its actually more of an admin blue collar role.

And from how the person "presents" I suspect they would not be a good manager
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Copyright isnt really important here this is labor law
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
That is the point of salaried jobs
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Its very common the work normally has to be related.
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Because employment laws are based on old laws relating to "Masters and servants"

And European law is just the same.
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
But they are fairly wide conditions it has to be "unrelated" to your day job.

OK if your a semi pro musician but a generic developer sie gig not so much.
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Same argument for regulating Google analytics which seems super popular on here
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Welcome to the great panopticon remember the Telescreen sees all citizen.
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
You'd be trading as an investment company then
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
The UK doesn't there are a number of schemes that allow this.

Everyone in the private company I work for has EMI options that trigger on change of control.
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Your being very optimistic here and changes will make the existing v poor US pensions system worse.

edge cases make bad law eg using the small number of social security cheats to reduce entitlements to all or the tiny tiny number of cases of elector fraud to disenfranchise the poor and BAME.

Dunblane and the Dangerous dogs act in the UK are related.

This is the sort of thing that fringe "hobbyist" activists do assuming they aren't paid agent provocateur's
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
So business has much more power that us employees have why are you taking their side here?
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
why would a company pay and offshored resource the same as localy?

Sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it
walshemj
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Very much so I (UK) have made some nice tax free returns on FTSE 100 companies share saves.

Pity we didn't get an exit back in 2000 when I had 0.5% of Poptel (everyone was a dollar millionaire at one point).

At the moment I have EMI shares in my current employer which vest on change of control
walshemj
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
And also substituting generic brand for brand gives higher ROI
walshemj
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Its Related works eg if you are a semi pro musician your employer has no claim on any songs you write.
walshemj
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Depends on country in Anglo Saxon law (UK USA) its the norm.

And many European countries eg Germany just have it as part of the general labor law - so you wouldn't see it in a "contract"
walshemj
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Fair enough but those sort of interesting jobs are A rare and B badly paid.