people that YELP are scumbags

(that quote from cordray is amazing)

copernican revolution in social media

You didn’t know that people are genuinely good

That quote is mind-boggling.

they are bad people doing bad things and they should feel bad

cameras ready, prepare to flash

incidentally, there is NOTHING new about putting together a list of snarky comments about people and sharing it semi anonymously among everyone they know, that is basically a slam book

^^^ clearly a fearful flat-earther, here

first they came for the freshman and i said nothing

(since when did newsweek have a paywall and since when did i visit newsweek five times this month? and isn't it october 1? fuck you newsweek)

first they came for the freshman and i said nothing

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, October 1, 2015 2:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehhh, you can't be held responsible

my homeroom teacher disagreed iirc

i don't mean to be a person that brings up the tv show community in places where it's not the designated topic of discussion but there's a community episode about this

i feel like maybe this is how humanity ends?

not with a bang but

like the machines take over while we are busy 24/7 managing our peeple profiles

I miss the old internet, before hordes of assholes of every stripe decided to get on it and make it into a big old asshole town for assholes to asshole around in

why i remember when it was just nothing but goatse.cx as far as the asshole could be

That thing is fucking dystopian. Julia Cordray should be in jail. I don't know for what exactly, but I want her to be jailed.

on the other hand, it could all be bullshit
http://m.snopes.com/2015/10/01/peeple/

omg what if this is the season premiere of nathan for you

excited for the reality show u_u

Every reply comment she has made is clearly trolling

omg what if this is the season premiere of nathan for you

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 2, 2015 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this could be ittt

http://joc.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/10/13/1469540515611203.abstract

Social media users who post restaurant reviews on the website Yelp.com act as both prosumers or produsers and “discursive investors” in gentrification. Their unpaid online reviews create cultural and financial value for individual restaurants and also construct a positive or negative image of their locations that may lead to economic investment. Moreover, Yelp reviewers show marked preferences in terms of race. Examining 7046 Yelp reviews of restaurants in a predominantly White-gentrifying and a predominantly Black-gentrifying neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, shows far more reviewers draw attention to the urban locale when the majority of residents are Black. A framing analysis of 1056 reviews that mention the neighborhood indicates that most Yelp reviewers feel positive about the White neighborhood, where they consider the traditional Polish restaurants “authentic” and “cozy,” while they feel negative about the Black neighborhood, which they criticize for a dearth of dining options and an atmosphere of dirt and danger. This language represents “discursive redlining” in the digital public realm, with Yelp reviewers contributing to taste-driven processes of gentrification and racial change.

Damn. Nice stuff.

I really want to read this but $30.00 is a but expensive.

go to the library

Those are fancy words but I'm guessing Yelp reviews have about zero impact on gentrification and merely reflect existing prejudices.

don't spread it around too much

https://www.dropbox.com/s/adcsvx9adll9out/Journal%20of%20Consumer%20Culture-2015-Zukin-1469540515611203.pdf?dl=0

http://www.eater.com/2015/11/12/9723896/yelp-reviews-race-gentrification-brooklyn-study

this commercial made me think of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXPY2dBq9I

Ugh cant believe he sold out

Why is he wearing so much makeup

fwiw it's a supercut of several longer ads, still pretty embarrassing but Sinclair is the best part of each

― gr8080, Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:33 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.zhg8q53sh

Fuuuuuck.

How she didnt think she'd lose her job doing that I have no idea.

The depressing thing about the comments to that piece tho is shit like "you get free healthcare, suck it up, thats a luxury!" and at that, I want to bang my head at the idea thats a luxury for americans.

she did lose her job

sorry misread, it is late and i am tired

but from her timeline it seemed like suicide by cop rather than she was surprised

https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/701091286325985280
https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/701094909072150528

What a maroon. And the ps ends with a paypal where you can send her money now that she just got herself fired from the job she hates!

"They actually want me - a recent grad with little work experience - stay a whole year in customer service when I should be getting paid good money to write funny tweets! And the indignity of my bosses rejecting my submissions to the suggestion box!"

She killed my sympathy early on with her dismissal of being a lawyer or teacher as too cliche.

cool reaction

her job may be stupid, but if it's something the company feel they want done, they need to be willing to pay a living wage for it. i mean nobody needs to eat strawberry milkshakes, preparing them is basically harmful to society in the grand scheme of things, but if burger king wants them made, and wants people to spend their day doing it, then i believe they should pay the shake-makers enough to live on.

dude's scumbag victim-blaming/subject-changing tweets are also pretty impressive. i don't know how they rank by the standards of scumbag worthless-app CEO mentality tweets, but i wanted to punch him in the face. his photo may also play a part in that though tbh.

There's some naivete in the open letter for sure but her take home pay is less than what I pulled in at an entry level job at 25 and it was only enough for me cos I lived with my parents.

Add in inflation and I get her gripe. CEO could have taken it as an opportunity to dialogue with a concerned employee but instead decided to show how big his dick was.

oh jeez and she lives in California? that salary there, good lord.

The pay is astonishingly poor esp considering its in tech, which even at entry level should be at least better than min wage (and I wont start on min wage in the US, yeesh). She did undermine her argument with things like saying she lived alone - no one does that on low wages, its just impossible (it certainly is where I live, and min wage here is like $16 an hour at least).

Like as a comparison, 7/11 in Aus have just been hauled over the coals for paying some migrant student workers $10 an hour, and thats BAD.

I get her gripe, but yeah "I didn't want to drown in student loans or be a cliche, so instead of teaching for a roughly middle-class salary, I took a job in a capricious industry in the most expensive city in the country for less than I'd make at any given retail job in the hopes I could do something fun down the road" isn't going to garner a lot of sympathy. Ditto her pity party story about the co-worker who moved to a place that isn't obscenely expensive. Disappointment that you don't make enough to be one of the young people pushing established residents out of their neighborhoods isn't a good look.

Her situation is less an indictment of Yelp than the lack of a comprehensive welfare state or guaranteed minimum income in this country. The "customer support team" at Yelp (based on my interactions) are the bottom-rung call center salespeople who push the Yelp scam on businesses - that's not a tech job.