Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 2:04 p.m. EDT July 13, 2015 The news media, like most businesses built on craft and culture, have largely worked as an apprentice system. Younger people learned skills and language from older people. A good media job would have been judged on the basis of the caliber of the more senior…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 Jess Zimmerman’s previous work for The Toast can be found here. I am not a big fan of psychic charlatanry, which often preys on people who are in genuine grief. So when I read about psychic fraud Priscilla Kelly Delmaro, arrested in May for second-degree grand larceny, I should have felt…
It’s 5 a.m. on a Wednesday in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond district, and Kyra Joseph is wide awake, making breakfast for her roommates — a feast, they call it. Chris Ledet, another resident of the little yellow house on a hill, likes to be awakened with a cup of coffee brought to him in bed,…
“The individual system with the 401(k) is a monster, especially for people 60 years old or more,” says Angelien Kemna, a leading European investor and pension executive. Kemna is no bleeding-heart liberal. She arrived at this conclusion after leaving one of the top private-sector jobs in global finance—CIO and CEO of ING Investment Management in…
Black cab drivers gum up a London street to protest against Uber. Photo by Chem Squier. This article originally appeared on VICE UK. It was seven o’clock on a cold January evening when Orhan, a taxi driver for Uber, first realized he had a problem. Well into his second shift of the day, he tried…
[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]> One Florida man’s unemployment claim could help take down a unicorn. In April, Darrin McGillis filed for unemployment benefits from Uber, claiming that he was unable to continue driving for the company after his vehicle was damaged. Uber is already facing a handful of lawsuits alleging that drivers should…
google_ad_section_start Yahoo has learned of new developments in a lawsuit filed against Bloomberg LP by the law firm Getman Sweeney in 2014. The original complaint filed alleged that the financial software and media company violated federal law by failing to compensate hundreds of former and current employees for overtime pay beginning in 2012. Bloomberg LP is run by Michael Bloomberg who…
Photo The Goldman Sachs headquarters in Manhattan. Goldman and other Wall Street firms are evaluating their work policies. Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Images Earlier this year, a 22-year-old first-year analyst at the Goldman Sachs office in San Francisco was feeling overwhelmed by the all-nighters and 100-hour workweeks. The analyst, Sarvshreshth Gupta, a graduate of the University…
There is no state in the union where a full-time, minimum-wage worker can afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment for less than 30 percent of his paycheck (which is a standard measure of housing affordability). That’s the depressing takeaway from a new report by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. The paper includes this map tallying…
Work is getting in the way of much-needed vacations, according to the latest executive survey by recruitment and HR consulting firm Korn Ferry. Two-thirds (67%) of the more than 400 U.S. executives surveyed online earlier this month said they had postponed or canceled vacation plans in the past year due to demands at work. While 83%…