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Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas[1] will raise its own minimum wage to $10.25 an hour next month...
The wage increase will cost the hospital about $350,000 a year. The expense will be covered with money from the upcoming quarter's bonus pool for the hospital's 60 vice presidents and top executives.
After this, every worker employed by Dallas County will make at least $10.25 an hour (still not a living wage by many measures).
Note also that this will barely put a dent in that pool, expected to be at least $3M for the year.
[1] People who have memories of November 22, 1963 will remember that as a historic location
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:42AM
I bitch about a lot of trends, so for full disclosure I just say up front that I want you all off my fucking lawn. But it is an annoying trend that people put fucking footnotes into a small paragraph. Some idiots put multiple footnotes. What is the purpose of that, other than to try to come off looking more scholarly and elite? Do you really need to put a fucking distracting footnote here when you could just simply tack that sentence on at the end?
And since I'm bitching anyways, what's with all the idiots who start off their comments with "Um, " or "Er, ". Are you trying to intentionally sound like a dumbshit? Are we supposed to visualize you avoiding eye contact, maybe looking down at your shoes, while giving us a response that you clearly want to come off as one delivered with no confidence?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @04:45PM
the idiots who start off their comments with "Um, " or "Er, ".
Some people say "um" or "er" to express puzzlement. Such as "Uhh, I don't think it's a good idea to put that fork in the light socket Bill!" You could interpret this as "You couldn't be so stupid as to really do that, could you?" It is sarcasm, which I understand can be difficult to parse over the internet, but to call people you don't understand "idiots" is, well, idiotic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @07:24PM
footnotes/endnotes in a small paragraph
1) The extra bit wasn't part of the original item.
Apparently, you aren't familiar with "blockquote".
2) Inserting something in the middle mangles the flow of the thought.
If -you- had thoughts that were deep enough, -you- might be familiar with that meme as well.
--gewg_