Interesting Links for 26-06-2014

[andrewducker]

• Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time
  (tags: people life politics competency adult )
• The war on drugs is lost - legalise the heroin trade
  (tags: heroin drugs legalisation )
• Investment Strategies in a Post-Apocalyptic World
  (tags: zombies investment apocalypse )
• I believe we're getting some of these in the office
  (tags: aliens coffee

Comments

[bart_calendar]

We have different business jargon in the US but is an "0 hours exclusivity clause" the same as a "no work non compete clause?" If so they can be very beneficial

[randomchris]

It's similar in effect - but completely unpaid. The exclusivity clause means that you only get paid for the hours you work.

I'd be fine with an exclusivity clause if it had, say, a 20-hour minimum (even in weeks you don't work you get 20 hours pay) but the ones being banned here don't have any minimum pay. People are getting zero work and zero pay, and not being allowed to look for work elsewhere.

[bart_calendar]

Oh. Ok. That sucks!

I couldn't tell from the article what it meant and was trying to reason it out and no work non compete retainers seemed to be what it meant but I couldn't be sure.

Thanks!

[a_pawson]

In the UK a zero hours contract means you are employed by a company but they do not guarantee you any work. Essentially they tell you the day before whether there is any work or not the following day. Having a non-compete clause in there as well means if they decide not to give you any work then you are fucked as you can't go and work for anyone else either.

[simont]

Today two of your links made me expect to see a different thing at the other end of them :-)

"Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time": I had just that moment seen this webcomic which seemed to be more or less saying the same thing.

And the Aliens coffee thing is a cut-down version of a longer video which I saw someone or other link to yesterday. (Though I'm not sure I recommend watching the full thing now - the GIF contains the punchline...)

[andrewducker]

I watched it anyway - it was kinda pretty!

And yes, Savage Chickens is sometimes rather good.

Men In Suits

[danieldwilliam]

She loves the pensive.

[coth]

Very good news on the solar panels.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, lots of hopefuly stuff going on in that area. Give it another ten years and we might see a tipping point!

[bohemiancoast]

The weird thing about that 'there are generations who don't remember the first memes' is that that isn't remotely one of the first Internet memes.

mutter mutter dancing baby mutter mutter hamster dance mutter mutter all your base

[philmophlegm]

...and now I can't get the Hamster Dance music out of my head.

[alextfish]

It does prove their point, a fortiori, though.

[bohemiancoast]

And when I went to look and make sure I'd not missed an important early one (I didn't), I was reminded of KIbo on Usenet, whose infamous ubiquity pre-dated all of these by many years.