Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours
by ryanwaggoner on Saturday December 24, 2011 @09:34AM
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Your poverty statistics are wrong.
According to the Census Bureau, the poverty rate was 15.1% in 2010.
Source: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/incpovhlth/2010/...
Has it somehow managed to more than triple in the last year?
Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours
by rdouble on Sunday December 25, 2011 @01:56AM
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Sorry, that was wrong. I meant "low income."
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/census-says-...
Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours
by Patrick_Bateman on Friday December 23, 2011 @04:01PM
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I did this last year and found a new job within 3 months of coming back. (The job is incomparably better than my old job in every way.)
Plus, when your audience is the Hacker News readership it would seem to make little sense to draw conclusions based on the bottom 48% of the population.
Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours
by TheAmazingIdiot on Friday December 23, 2011 @04:55PM
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Hate to burst your bubble, but even poor people read hacker news. In my job, I make 14851 per year. I also drive 45 minutes to this job, because it was the only one I could find.
Or, perhaps, you'd like to make a supposition that smart people can never be poor?
It's currently pretty hard to get a job again on the other side of the vacation. Plus for most people in the USA wages are so low it's hard to even save $10K. 48% of the population are living on or below the poverty line.