Interesting Links for 27-01-2012

[andrewducker]

• Depression makes it more likely you'll do overtime
  (tags: work depression psychology )
• Cars Kill Cities
  (tags: cars transport cities )
• Android and iPhone neck and neck in the US smartphone market
  (tags: iphone apple android mobile )
• Apple still dominates the tablet market, but Android narrows the gap
  (tags: apple android tablets

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

> Annouce that the minimum wage, full time, full year, is to be the new personal allowance. One changes, both change.

Lovely, but without numbers I'm clueless as to what this actually entails. How much is min wage p.a.?

[andrewducker]

52*37.5*6.08 = £11,856

[fyrie]

I was living on less than that for my first two years in Edinburgh. That was not a fun time.

[andrewducker]

Living on part time wages is never ever fun. You have my sympathy.

[fyrie]

Ahaha. No. That was my full time wage. I was an office monkey and didn't realise how much I was being shafted for the amount of work I was doing.

[andrewducker]

They were paying you less than minimum wage????

[fyrie]

That was almost 4 years ago, though. Still, it was the lowest they could legally pay me at the time.

[octopoid_horror]

You have been through this before. Plenty of people get paid below minimum wage, regrettably.

[andrewducker]

In this case she was being paid minimum wage, and I was surpassed considering her background (that I know of).

[momentsmusicaux]

Thanks!