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Comment Re:The alternative title (Score 1) 65

Chances are, those full-time jobs would effectively quash their food stamps and medicaid because some places have a clause where those benefits go once you exceed 40 hours or so.

But gig shifts will let you maintain SNAP or EBT, and medicaid. The employer won't have to set aside some budget for benefits they offer regular employees for these "temp" workers

Comment Did they go through the vintage process (Score 1) 65

You know, hire an outside party to come in and take a close look at what each individual employee is contributing, tenure, red staplers, and then hear out each individual's commentary on how many bosses get to visit him regarding the cover page of something called TPS Reports

Also a summary of one's typical day at the office would apply, etc

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 200

The feds are telling people to cut power now? The feds that are Republicans? But I thought that was communist! Isn't that what they all bleated when Mamdani said that?

What political leaders are doing is begging people to share better, and that's democracy
What the feds are doing is written in the large users' contracts, so it isn't communism, it's the market..

Large customers such as manufacturers often have contracts in which they agree to cut usage or power down when told to by their power provider under certain conditions. Among the conditions is FERC declaring an emergency. The manufacturer gets a large discount under normal operating conditions.
Often those plants have their own generators so they don't actually have to shut down, but those generators cost much more per kWH to run than what the utility charges under normal contract conditions. But when spot prices hit $2,000 a MWH, putting your workers on treadmills sounds like a good deal. (It's not)

Some utilities have agreements with homwowners in which a device is placed on their AC units that allow the utility to cut power to the AC during times of stess. The contracts I'm familiar with have some sort of time limits on how long each cutoff lasts, but still, that's the market speaking.

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