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Comment Already in Toronto -- really bad for travellers (Score 2, Interesting) 585

I ran into this system in Toronto a few years ago.

There's no way to pay manually. Sections that are toll aren't well marked. Cost isn't clearly defined and changes as a function of time and/or traffic density. So when turning in the rental car there's no way to determine the charges for tolls.

Months after the trip I got a bill from the car rental agency: cost of tolls + several taxes + surcharge by the car rental agency + a billing fee.

Can you tell I'm not a fan of this technology?! Car rental agency added costs were more than twice the cost of tolls.

Comment Worked 9/80 15 years ago, still miss it! (Score 1) 1055

It's been almost 15 years and I still miss it -- it was great! We had 9 hour days Mon-Thu, either 0 or 8 hours on Friday.

The company originally instituted it in California to meet a mandate to reduce pollution by 20%. They shut down 1 day out of 10 + took credit for 10% reduction in employee commuting. It was popular enough that they spread it to other sites.

One side effect was that the week started/stopped at noon Friday. Part of the plant was unionized and union rules said anything over 40 hours in a week was paid at overtime rates, and if the company scheduled you for less than 40 hours work in the week you still got paid for 40 hours. Nothing in the contract specified when the week started. So it was timecards at noon Friday.

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