Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Why Sept 19th? That's the birthday of the ex-wife of one of the founders. The day took off when Dave Barry wrote about it.
Talk Like a Pirate Day is now a religious holiday, for those who are members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
To corporations, every day is Talk Like a Pirate Day. For companies large and small, old and new, all seem to believe that the law doesn't apply to them.
The latest, of course, is Uber, a company that believes that wage-and-hour laws and laws regulating for-hire vehicles and their drivers don't apply to them. Because they're a corporation, or they use the internet.
Presumably Uber can't just go out and start killing people. But there doesn't seem to be anything in their logic that says they can't.
Actions, Meet Consequences
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1 comment:
Thanks for the link. It will be a long cold day in Death Valley before I take an Uber car. People talk as if I am "stifling competition" when I point out that cabbies have to pass DOT physicals and drug tests but Uber "independent contractors" don't.
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