RE: investors. So you don't think this has anything to do with it?

We're in the middle of a boom. A job boom, and a construction boom to catch up with the job boom. Adding capital to build more housing does not sound like a problem. Our restrictive zoning that tries to keep housing from being built does sound like a problem.

Paging Mr. Mudede: How about some reporting about Venezuela?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-amer…

How does the poor 63-year-old teacher resigning from that Christian school help anyone? Now when ISIS attacks the school, she won't be there to stop them.

Ahhh, the dreaded war on cars. Well, cars are still winning: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/arti…

How is limiting your employees overtime hours unreasonable? Were Boeing engineers guaranteed X hours of overtime at some point and are now taking it back?

@5 I'm guessing they're not cutting back expectations of work, just the pay for doing the work beyond 8 hours. Which puts them right in line with every other non-union salaried position in this country; they want you to work the overtime, but not pay for it.

My "normal" day is 10 hours in the office, with a 45 minute commute each way... I'm out the door at 7:45am, in the door at 7:45am. Yay, the glories of tech work!.

I'm sure the glorious overlords at The Stranger pay their salaried employees overtime, particularly in the crunch before hitting the printers. Right?

Good Morning Charles,
BTW, did you read about this 18-carat solid gold toilet installed as interactive art at the Guggenheim museum?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/09/…

Wow.

Also, yesterday's news revealed Congress to give $38 billion in military assistance over ten years to Israel. That's a tidy sum. I think it is the biggest ever. It fazed me.

Re: Boeing, Not getting Overtime is Not a Pay cut.

@4/@5/@6

What you clueless fucksticks forget is that everyone taking a job anywhere has to consider the whole compensation package - in this case folks take a lower base wage in exchange for getting paid overtime. You guys in the software world receive a much higher base salary, something which you should have fucking realized. You should have also realized that working overtime generally isn't a choice.

Complaining that "salaried workers aren't supposed to be paid overtime" is like complaining that "hourly workers aren't supposed to be paid wages about the minimum" or "no one is supposed to be given paid vacation". It's done by the company to attract talent. Anyone who signed up for that deal has every right to be angry when it was taken away.

By your reasoning, you'd be thrilled to have your salary reduced with no warning. Enjoy your race to the bottom, shitheads.

@9 It is when the overtime is mandatory.

Anyone see the story about the chemical giant Bayer taking over the genetically modified food giant Monsanto? One company to rule over the myriad farmers that produce 25% of the world's food.

@16:

Meryl Streep doesn't get paid to review movie scripts and studio offers; she gets paid to perform in movies.

@10
My clueless fuckstick self doesn't work in tech and if the issue is being forced to work overtime without compensation then Mudede should say so.

I know I jumped about twenty feet into a lake when I was not a whole lot older than that kid, and I didn't have a life jacket. How young is young enough to trigger taking your children away?

The adults should have said "if you want to go in, you have to be willing to jump", but that's a psychological thing, not a safety thing.

It's actually the Wynoochee River. The source spelled it wrong too.

Re: Christian Toilet Guns — I've never heard of a school that doesn't discourage (or forbid) teachers and students from using the same restroom. Perhaps the school is so tiny there's no alternative; In which case—what was going through the teacher's mind that had her bring a gun to a tiny elementary school?

@24 reread my second paragraph, yes? The lack of clear affirmative consent makes this a shitty thing to do to a child, but it doesn't substantively change the level of physical risk. Which is high enough that I certainly wouldn't do it as a parent, but it's an odd choice to bring criminal charges over.

@11, that wasn't the issue at hand. Nor was it implied. All that was stated was "No More Overtime".