#Board Wages

[lifewithaview]

Pauline Collins and Jean Marsh in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) Board Wages

S1E3

It's August 1904 and with the Bellamys away, the servants have the house to themselves. Hudson and Mrs Bridges are also absent and soon the rest, along with a few friends, begin drinking and partying. Rather than restrict themselves to below stairs, the party soon moves to the morning room and Sarah dons one of Lady Marjorie's evening gowns. They are all shocked however when the Bellamys eldest son James, a Lieutenant in the Life Guards, arrives unexpectedly. Rather than chuck them out or call the police, which is what most of them expect him to do, he embarrasses them further by playing along with their little game and serving them champagne until they are all quite drunk. Sarah however is as defiant as ever, standing up to him and managing to extract a promise from him not to tell his parents what has happened. She also makes a momentous decision about her own future.

#Upstairs Downstairs #tv series #1971 #Pauline Collins #S1E3 #Jean Marsh #Board Wages #August 1904 #1904 #period drama #servants #drinking #James Bellamy #Sarah #decisions #just watched #oldies

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Whispers of dissatisfaction are echoing through the aisles of bottles and cans that fill Ontario’s liquor stores.

On Saturday, unionized staff who run the province’s alcohol stores rallied at a downtown Toronto location, calling for wage increases and the introduction of more full-time jobs.

At the heart of their concern is the question of revised wages for the past several years.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canada #canadian #workers rights #wages #unions #LCBO #ontario #liquor control board of ontario

[revvethasmythh]

on a list of incredibly silly, irrelevant things from the campaign i still wonder about all the time, whether Flora is actually Imogen's horse (in the legal sense of ownership) or just her favorite of Master Faramore's horses is still number one for me. do the Temults even own any horses at all or do they just work at the stables? do they board horses at the stable for a discount because they work there? do they even board horses in Gelvaan or is it more common to keep personally owned horses on your own property?? These are the important questions I need to ask for the eventual campaign wrap-up, I think

#like I GET IT if flora is just her favorite of the stable's horses #been there done that i understand it #but I spent so long thinking they OWNED horses but then we actually went to gelvaan and i got the sense that this was not the case #it's stupid but it haunts me #do they own flora and board her at the stables. if so do they own others. what are their financials like #was it viable/affordable of them to own horses like faramore's considering faramore breeds horses to be exported #implying that they are higher quality than a horse used as a beast of burden/for local farming purposes? #how much did they make from being stablehands? due to seniority is relvin a barn manager by now? he should be #does faramore pay good wages or is he a dickfuck? #important musings that I think about more than I should #also no need to try and reply to all of these questions they are RHETORICAL i am thinking out loud that is all!!

[vaquerovulgar]

when talking about the whole submersible implosion thing, can people be careful not to discredit search and rescue as a whole? its totally possible to both address migrant safety and random freak accidents at the same time. they are not mutually exclusive. i would much rather live in a society that spends millions doing search and rescue for dumbasses who likely deserve to die, than live in a society in which emergency services can openly choose who to save and let die based on perceived cost, class, identity, or morals.

#oceangate #idk its just driving me nuts #totally fine to think everyone on board deserves to die #but please make arguments that dont discredit search and rescue as a social service #imagine if firefighters couldnt put out local house fires because california has a wildfire #we can address both emergencies! #the bigger issue here is CEOs who put money before life #and rich assholes who would rather spend a quarter million on dangerous bullshit instead of paying their workers minimum wage

[trans-cuchulainn]

everybody should have free and equal access to information and art, and also the people who make that art should be able to earn a fair living. both of these things should happen. unfortunately, we live in a world where neither of them happens. moreover we live in a world where they are seen as oppositional forces where to favour one is to deny the other. but it is not the fault of either the producers or the consumers that these truths haven't already been reconciled, it's a) the middlemen who profit from the labour of both sides, and b) the system as a whole that makes living something to be sweated and bled for and not something we can simply do. furthermore it is deeply unfortunate that action against those middlemen will always hurt first the producers of that art and information, because rather than see their profits shrink, the middlemen will only extract more labour for less money. and this will not be a victory for the consumer in the long run, but if the alternative is for the profit to grow at the cost to the consumer, who would blame the consumer for taking the temporary victory? and the system cannot be allowed to continue to exist in the state that it is, and sometimes those middlemen are making choices that do harm. so how do you change it, if you don't want to hurt the people at the bottom who have no power over the people at the top? can it be changed? or will it always be a case of pitting the producer against the consumer as though that was ever the fight to be won in the first place?

#it is so so frustrating that it is never the ceos and executives and boards and whatever that suffer from boycotts and the like #their salaries will not even take a hit #but the underpaid junior employees at the bottom will be let go #and the ones just above them will work five years on a sub living wage for no promotion #and the freelancers who are the reason the industry exists will be ground down and exploited just a little more #while somebody at the top who produces nothing of value pockets all the money #and if the consumer walks away and goes elsewhere... they'll just take it out of somebody else's pocket instead #how do you resist in a world that is built like this #how can anything get better when the only way to show displeasure with a company is to fuck ordinary people over #i am so goddamn tired of living under capitalism

[unkillobel]

me: wow the monthly living stipend for this scholarship is so much considering i don’t have to pay rent

me one week into march: oh god

#i got used to my full time wage life which had enough left over for Weekend Little Treats #and food is cheaper here!! but our ‘fully furnished with essentials’ apartment was missing a hundred or so euros of stuff #unless my perception of essentials is skewed but i do tend to need towels. and more than one bedsheet. a chopping board. and yknow. bowls

[puppybong]

man i loved my job more than anything but our district is the worst. when we were about to go on strike they basically said “okay, you win, here’s an 80 cent raise” completely ignoring the lack of bus drivers, funding for special programs, substitute crisis, etc etc i never felt more insulted in my life

#rent was raised 14.9 percent across the state and the school board thought 80 cents was good enough #we didn’t have any funding in my program & me&my coworkers get injured daily because there’s no staff #like if you care for the health and well-being of another person you should have a living wage😭 like

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"New Code May Discard Living Bonus," Winnipeg Tribune. October 27, 1943. Page 4. ---- OTTAWA, Oct. 27. - The cost-of-living bonus, a child of the government's wartime inflation worries, may disappear - as a bonus - if plans now understood to be receiving government consideration are made effective.

The fate of the bonus has held an important place in the drafting of a new wage and labor program stemming from the general inquiry of the National War Labor Board earlier this year and, while no definite decision has been reached, it is considered possible that money which workers now are receiving as a cost-of-living bonus will become part of their basic wage rate instead.

This theory was strengthened Tuesday night by announcement of Labor Minister Mitchell that the provincial premiers have been invited to send representatives to a Dominion-provincial conference in Ottawa Nov. 8.

New wage legislation has reached a more advanced point than any other phase of the government's new labor program but it is regarded doubtful whether it will be announced until the program as a whole is made public.

Meantime, there are indications that the cost-of-living bonus will move upward at the next adjustment, scheduled for Nov. 15 on the basis of the index figure for Oct. 2. The bonus is subject to revision every three months and the maximum bonus now payable - $4.25 a week or 17 percent of wage, depending on the wage category of the worker - is based on a wartime increase of 17 percent in the official cost-of-living index.

Early this month the index at Sept. 1 showed a wartime increase of 18.5 percent. Bonus payments are subject to change when there has been a movement of at least one full percentage point since the last adjustment. Thus, unless there is a drop of more than 0.5 percent between the Sept. 1 and Oct. 1 figures. the bonus will rise.

#dominion of canada #mackenzie king government #wage scales #cost of living #cost of living index #wage increase #war workers #national war labor board #industrial relations #birth of the technocratic state #birth of the welfare state #canada during world war 2

[savageboar]

watched a video about south african flight 295 and im just like

#WHAT THE FUUUUCK #tldr at the time south africa was corrupt af and waging war #but there was an international weapons embargo on the country bc of it #so the government decided to start SMUGGLING WEAPONS on board CIVILIAN FLIGHTS #tried to hide all the evidence of this and failed #obviously airline pilots really hated it but they could lose their jobs or worse if they protest #plus the airline could possibly go out of business if it ever came out #and in this flight the smuggled weapons caught fire and burned up all the controls wiring one by one #the fire eventually spread through thd cabin until the airframe gave way and the plane broke in half and crashed into the ocean #killing all onboard #WHAT??? #hades.txt

[paradisetemporarilymisplaced]

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#god I’m so fucking bitter abt life rn #got an email from my university’s graduate school that was all ‘thank you grad students you are the backbone of our university’ #and all I could think was ‘yes we fucking know. we’ve been saying this. pay us more’ #it’s genuinely not the grad school’s fault. they’ve actually been really helpful to our cause #like they commissioned a study a year or two ago that found grad students here are criminally underpaid compared to peer institutions #(as in they’d need to raise our wages by 25% to be competitive. as I said. CRIMINALLY underpaid) #and they have been advocating for us to the board of governors and whatnot using this study as evidence #so I’m not actually mad at the grad school. it’s the university in general #all they do is say ‘grad students are key to our institution’s success’ like yes we know we’re just cheap labor #we teach like 60% of undergrad classes bc we’re cheaper than tenured faculty #I read this article that interviewed a bunch of NTT faculty at my school and they were like ‘yeah we get paid like $50-60k and can’t survive #on that in this VERY EXPENSIVE housing market’ #and I was like ‘well damn then I will no longer feel like my inability to survive on $30k is a personal failing’ #I’m at my fucking breaking point. I just need a new job #and I’ve been applying like crazy and all I’ve heard back from anyone was two rejections #I’m sure it’ll work out but it’s very hard to see that rn

[fearsomeandwretched]

This is such a stupid ass article title

#his life's work do you mean sitting on his ass in board meetings collecting millions #while the real laborers behind Starbucks and ALL of its success get paid poverty wages #i hope he chokes on his next coffee and dies

[emdotcom]

*makes what I feel is a banger of a post & immediately gets down voted*

#i have a confession. i use reddit sometimes #gale chatter #yea i shoulda known better than 2 make a fnaf timeline post. i should also have stopped when i found out i can't post to the theory board #yea they have a rule requiring u 2 have more than 250 karma & in the year I've had reddit i only have 170 so :( #anyhow. fuck somebody made a point that could derail my whole timeline #but also they didn't cite any sources & just threw a random detail at me that don't make no cents #which was 'fnaf ar takes place in 1993' which. tbh the 2-3 times I've downloaded that i like #never got all the emails or paid that much attention to the opening it is totally possible #real confession is that i made a post thinking i was sooo smart i had all these good-ass links #i linked a .gov for a list of federally mandated minimum wages across the years i felt sooo smug #& i am now knocked down a peg by a stranger on the internet downvoting my post

[landlordevil]

it hit me literally last night that i officially have enough of a financial cushion that i can do summer stock. my grueling awful 9 to 5 schedule has actually paid off I’m so happy

#you want to hire me for summer stock so bad. you want to pay for my room and board on top of an hourly or salary wage so bad.

[karmaphone]

I love complaining about corporations price gouging and having middle aged men in a bar explain basic economic theory to me like I'm stupid

#did I say love? I mean makes me murderous #sorry you fell for propaganda that if minimum wage rises corporations must raise their prices to compensate #they could just *gasp* stop paying their CEOs and board so much lol

[tundrakatiebean]

I think I would’ve vibed a lot more with night in the woods if I had played it in my twenties lol I think I’m too old to hit the target for a lot of this stuff

#Katie is rambling 2k23 #Katie does new media 2k23 #katie plays indie games #I honestly hate Mae. I’m sorry but I really do. #I get that she’s hurting and in a bad place and I just want to shake her like a can full of pennies #I don’t like that this game makes me make awful choices #like drinking too much or stealing things or wrecking a bathroom some min wage guy is gonna have to clean up #I think I could’ve gotten more on board with that in my 20s #but not now

[drumlincountry]

has anyone got Really Extra about how board games are an Ethical and Sustainable pasttime yet? I feel like it’s .... discourse in potentia.

#its not just me right? u can see it happening? very self rightious board game people talking about how it emits basically no carbon #waging war against the video game people etc #maybe they're too busy trying to get people to join in #me fein