I was grateful to learn today that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has clarified its position on modification practitioners. Say who? It’s a fancy term for tattooists and body-piercing artists (I’m not sure artists applies, but whatever), and OSHA has stepped in with a Letter of Interpretation (LOI) about training requirements for said [...]
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I haven’t been to any “Darwin Award” sites lately, but this guy qualifies for some sort of stupidity award. Chelsea District Court (Massachusetts) Assistant Clerk James Burke (if he gets nearly $85,000 a year as an assistant, what does a full clerk make?) has been arrested for having sex in a courtroom. Now that sounds [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Like Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in Network, whose mantra was “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore,” temp workers at Microsoft are Hades-like too as word leaked out that pay cuts are in the works for the temporary force. One temp from Volt has already set up a Web site [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What is the Prize Card for China? Cheap labor, of course, and now that some 20,000 manufacturing firms have closed down in the past year, that means there are some 20 million migrant workers looking for jobs. And they’re finding them–at lower wages. And the manufacturers are also getting generous export tax rebates. It also [...]
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