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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • There isn’t a place on Earth that gets cold enough that you can’t put on enough clothing to make it surviveable for a few hours.

    The human body is endothermic. It regulates it’s own temperature by burning energy to create heat, but it doesn’t have a mechanism to cool itself in a humid environment.

    At high humidity, 95 degrees can be lethal to a hydrated, healthy adult.

    Last summer we 45 consecutive days over 100 degrees in a very humid climate.

















  • My Dad used to be a hot-shot delivery driver.

    He didn’t sit around waiting for a job. He’d go about his business and when his phone pinged he’d decide in the moment if he wanted to do the job.

    Sometimes we’d be watching TV and his phone would ping and he’d get up to leave. Sometimes he wasn’t interested and he’d let someone else get it.

    The issue with Uber, Lyft, etc isn’t that they treat their drivers as contractors. People who have they option of when, where, and whether to work and are paid per task aren’t employees. The problem is the pay is terrible for what they’re doing.


  • What you’re talking about is “waiting to be engaged” versus “engaged to wait.”

    The drivers are not on set schedules and have no obligation to the company except for the time between accepting a fare and dropping them off. If the drivers were required to return to a staging area and wait for a call the they’d need compensation. But they’re not. They can do whatever they want at that point.

    When I worked retail I wasn’t paid for the time between my shift’s end and the next one beginning, but that’s what you’re arguing for in this case.