If you're getting punished for using your contractually guaranteed benefits, then you need to find a better employer and/or a lawyer.

Because usually these people only have one person that they sell their services to, and that makes them employees, not contractors. Uber doesn't like treating them as employees, so it wants another box to put them in, and deny them the benefits of being an employee.

Again - the point of the government is to manage society working together. You are effectively saying "I don't want to be part of a society or attempt to contribute anything to it".

The reason the government is regulating it is because simple capitalist free markets will not get the ball rolling on what everyone can plainly see is a social good.

Again - if you don't want to lose out - start investing in the things that society has determined are good for the country as a whole. Simple.

Then maybe you should start investing in renewables. Then other people will pay your power bill. That's the whole point of tax breaks/hikes - to encourage changes in societal norms for the betterment of the whole country.

If you're paying someone else's xyz bill through your taxes, that's because they're doing something good for society that you aren't - start helping society, and everyone else will pay your bills.

You know that section of your review that says "team work", and how your team members get to rate you, and make comments about you?

Except that this is actually good. Sure your productivity drops. But the company's as a whole increases. You should absolutely see it as your job to help your colleagues be able to do their job. Your company certainly does.

You've been modded troll, but this is pretty much accurate.

It's also not a win/win, and here's why:
1) Most people are not most productive at home. In fact, most people are significantly less productive at home due to many more distractions around them.
2) Commuting (at least relatively short commutes) has been shown to be a good way of clearing your brain, and getting it into or out of work mode. It doesn't really hurt productivity unless you're doing it for hours.
3) Skype does not make communication with coworkers a snap. It imparts a major cognitive overhead.
4) Communication does not just come down to a few meetings a week that could (with more effort) be done via Skype. By working at home you remove any chance of corridor conversations, which typically, are by far the most productive communication in an office.

Basically, working at home is not in any way good for the company, and it's usually not good for the employee at all, so most companies won't let you do it.

Depends on how you define "much better option". Given that I'm only going to commute in the thing; I have charges at home and at work; the chevy volt is fugly; chevy have a history of making cars that have crap build quality (including the volt); I don't need to lug around a heavy ICE to get to work and back, the eGolf is a far better choice for me.

Actually, if you're leasing, the leasing organisation is buying the vehicle, and hence they are responsible for claiming the tax credit. They then pass on the $7500 at the dealership because they're confident that they are able to actually claim all of it.

No, $159 with about 3.5k down. And no, the point of a lease in the case of an electric vehicle is that you'll pay about $8000 total with the ~$120 * 35 + $3.5k deal, less $2500 tax rebate. The end result is $5500 - which will be substantially less than the depreciation even on a petrol vehicle, let alone the depreciation on an electric vehicle (with its battery aging rapidly after 3 years, and much better tech available presumably).

You'd be utterly insane to actually buy the thing with that deal.

$229 a month is VW's list price. If you actually go to a dealer they'll give you $159 a month straight off the bat with no negotiation (at least in the bay area). If you then actually phone a bunch of them up and argue about the price you'll get down a lot further.

Shame you don't live in a relevant state though :(

First, the current price is actually about $27.5k, because the gvmnt gives you $7.5k cash in hand. Second, as someone who just leased an eGolf, you can get the base price down to about $26k before you even apply the gvmnt incentives if you're half good at arguing.

The reason you haven't heard of the eGolf is two fold:
1) It's very new. VW only started selling them about 4 months ago
2) VW deliberately went out of their way to not make it look electric - there was no fan fare about this new fancy electric thingamabob, because it looks exactly like any other Golf.

Yep, I'm currently leasing an eGolf for less than $120 a month. That's less than I pay for my petrol car. That and I get the electricity free from work makes it an awesome deal.

And... this is the definition of functional programming (referential transparency). So yes - it actually really *just like* functional programming, because it *is* functional programming.