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By falconet on Can Single People With No Responsibilities Whatsoever Have It All?
A friend who does this is better than surprise doughnuts any day of the week.
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By josefinastrummer on Can Single People With No Responsibilities Whatsoever Have It All?
@pawnknee Right! Logan, you have a job! And bills to pay! And plenty of other things that make up responsibilities! Sorry that you can't get out of bed on time but that doesn't mean the rest of us single/childless folks have nothing worth doing.
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By PaprikaPants on Sallie Mae: Helping You Pay Less, So You Owe Them More
"...then who is the one making a living from my education? It’s not me." Oh my god.
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By stuffisthings on WWYD: The Obnoxious Coworker
@honey cowl Oh Mike *seems* like a great guy, until you go over to his apartment for a tasteful low-key dinner party and you're looking for the bathroom and you open the wrong door and guess what? Closet full of human organs.
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By stuffisthings on Factory Farms, Where It's Illegal to Report That You've Seen Something Illegal If You Thought You Might See Something Illegal
@stuffisthings Actually now that I think about it "Hix Nix Stix Pix" works just fine for this story.
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By Logan Sachon on How to Crash With Your Friends for Three Months Without Driving Them Crazy
i like you and also your friends.
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By stuffisthings on Factory Farms, Where It's Illegal to Report That You've Seen Something Illegal If You Thought You Might See Something Illegal
@Megano! I hope the Billfold gets an interview with the undercover dude to talk about this trend, so the headline can be "Blog Nabs Ag Gag Egg Lad, Rags on Bad Fad."
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By EvanDeSimone on Working From Home Not A Terrible Thing
I think this might be a question of scale. In a smaller company, where it is easier to monitor employee outputs, allowing people to work remotely make sense. However, a work from home scenario is definitely open to abuse. It may be that when you’re working on a larger scale, as Yahoo does, there may be a tipping point where productivity and accountability is hampered more by allowing workers to stay home than it is by forcing them into the office.
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By Lionel Mandrake on Why There Were 400 Visual Effects Artists Protesting at the Oscars
I work in a side alley of the VFX business (motion graphics and commercial production). We share much of the same skills and personnel and we've been going through various financial contortions for the last 10 years or so, just like VFX. I managed to dig my business out of the shitter by adopting some pretty radical (for the industry) business practices. 1) I never, ever flat bid. This shuts me out of certain jobs, but there you go. I bill a per diem rate, or an hourly rate. Or, if it is a project rate, I always include an overages clause in my contract. 2) I stopped chasing the sexier, high profile projects - the margins are almost always crap. I focussed on the less glamorous work that I knew had good margins and a more appreciative client base. 3) I keep my operation as small as humanly possible, I only expand when I'm absolutely sure I have the billables in place to cover it. 4) I bill for everything, and if I'm not getting paid I shut the job down or walk. There's short term damage from creating conflict, but the long term damage from not cutting a bad client off is far worse. 5) I stopped letting my business get treated like a doormat. The strange thing is, once I demanded respect from my clients, I started receiving respect from my clients. I think there's been a certain amount of naivete on the part of the VFX houses, in that they've been expecting somehow to get a fair shake from the studios. Which, really?
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By stuffisthings on Is It Worth $5 to Return This Bread, What About $4 for These Headphones With a Microphone in Them
BREAD PUDDING logan sheesh. It's so good.