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@ Rycochet	:	(14 December 2018 - 02:45 PM) Some states have laws against that, but they're in a tiny minority. There are plenty of cases where rich people have gone after journalists and their employers for accurate reporting, lost, but still left their targets saddled with hundreds of thousands ofdollars in legal fees and no hope of recovering anyof the money because a partisan judge has decreed that while they're innocent, they're not innocent enough.
@ Rycochet	:	(14 December 2018 - 02:43 PM) The american system is as bad, there are plenty of cases of billionaires or corporations filing libel suits purely to kill reporting or activisim against their activities. SLAPP suits. Strategic Lawsuits against public participation.
@ SHIELD Agent 47	:	(14 December 2018 - 12:48 PM) e.g. British libel laws place the burden of proof on the accuser, which is how we wind up with Emirati billionaires suing Western journalists in British courts
@ SHIELD Agent 47	:	(14 December 2018 - 12:46 PM) Never visited the UK in my life, but reading about British laws in the news gives me the vibe that British culture inherently protects the wealthy and established.
@ Anonymous X	:	(14 December 2018 - 12:39 PM) Sounds a lot better than labour law in the UK. It's bare minimum standards here, you don't get any employment rights as such in the first two years of employment (and the employer can arbitrarily reset the clock). Unions are limited to a few public sector professions as well; in the private sector, there basically aren't any unions.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:25 PM) Bonus points if your company has a works council. The employer is required by law to hear the works council prior to giving you your termination. The works council cannot prevent your termination if the employer really insists on going through with it, but if the employer failed to hear the works council, didn't wait for the works council to respond, or failed to tell the works council all the relevant details, the termination is legally invalid due to a technicality.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:23 PM) The employer has to tell you the reason for your termination if you explicitly ask for it, and if you can prove the reason is factually incorrect, the employer may lose the case.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:21 PM) For all its flaws, I really like a lot about our German labor law. Here, if you're under a permanent contract and have been continually employed for over six months, employers can only fire you for reasons that fall into one of three categories defined by law, and the burden of proof is on the employer's side in a potential court case.
@ Paladin	:	(13 December 2018 - 05:38 PM) in brightest day or blackest night?
@ Bass X0	:	(13 December 2018 - 05:25 PM) Finally we get a Greenlight toy.
@ Tm_Silverclaw	:	(13 December 2018 - 04:58 PM) See.. In America they would just fire you for having the wrong color shoes on or some BS reason.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:13 AM) And hey, in addition to the clocked extra hours, I earned an additional 50% overtime bonus.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:12 AM) This past Saturday, in full expectance of a strike this week, I worked a full extra shift. They assigned me and some of the other volunteers to a totally pointless task, while some ladies were seriously sweeping the floor. When asked how long I was planning to stay, I smiled and said "a full shift!"
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:10 AM) "You were asking for volunteers, right? I'm staying." - "But we have no more work for you!" - "I don't see how that's my problem..."
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:10 AM) It's possible to use that to troll the employer a little, though... Once they allow voluntary overtime, they cannot backtrack from that. So once you notice you're rapidly running out of work, you just decide to do overtime out of spite.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:08 AM) Now if there's no strike... people eventually run out of work.
@ Nevermore	:	(13 December 2018 - 07:07 AM) Amazon is prepared for strikes... they just hire way too many people for the Christmas season. If there's a strike, they still have enough (albeit inexperienced) workers.
@ Steevy Maximus	:	(12 December 2018 - 07:49 PM) Not one bit
@ SHIELD Agent 47	:	(12 December 2018 - 06:46 PM) @Steevy Did you read TM2's post? "Amazon.de".
@ Paladin	:	(12 December 2018 - 06:37 PM) just wait until the European economy collapses up its Brexit-shaped asshole.
@ TM2-Megatron	:	(12 December 2018 - 06:22 PM) Probably not a ton of people, no. Although I'd say I order from one European Amazon site once every month or two, myself. Usually UK, but sometimes Germany as well. France and Italy a couple times, too. There are some good Blu-Ray releases that are exclusive to Europe
@ Steevy Maximus	:	(12 December 2018 - 06:00 PM) I'm not sure a European strike is going to impact North American customers.
@ TM2-Megatron	:	(12 December 2018 - 04:13 PM) Well, somebody must've been working 'cuz I had an order in with Amazon.de that got shipped out the other day
@ Echowarrior	:	(12 December 2018 - 01:29 PM) Amazon.
@ Benbot	:	(12 December 2018 - 01:01 PM) AOL?
@ Nevermore	:	(11 December 2018 - 08:22 PM) Also, strike has been extended. So no working for 50 minutes. Would have been fun, though.
@ Nevermore	:	(11 December 2018 - 08:21 PM) I said numerous times already that I work at that big American corporation that begins with "A".
@ Waspinator	:	(11 December 2018 - 07:21 PM) Preferably the equivalent of Lara Croft or Indiana Jones a thousand years from now
@ Tm_Silverclaw	:	(11 December 2018 - 02:26 PM) The turkeys... The answer is always the Turkeys.
@ NotVeryKnightly	:	(11 December 2018 - 02:05 PM) Who would be the heroes in this situation?
@ Waspinator	:	(11 December 2018 - 02:03 PM) When I die, I want my body to be part of a puzzle solution. Like, have my skeleton pointing at the clue the heroes are supposed to find.
@ Rodimus Supreme	:	(11 December 2018 - 12:38 PM) Can you say where you work at? Or is that private?
@ Nevermore	:	(10 December 2018 - 02:49 PM) It's completely pointless... whch is exactly the point. Hundreds of workers showing up 50 minutes before their shift is over.
@ Nevermore	:	(10 December 2018 - 02:49 PM) We're on strike until midnight tomorrow (Tuesday->Wednesday). Which means I will clock in at midnight and work until my shift is over... 50 minutes later.
@ Nevermore	:	(10 December 2018 - 02:48 PM) Hahaha, awesome.
@ Cybersnark	:	(09 December 2018 - 09:36 PM) But The Pillows prefer to kill you with Poison Rock'N'Roll
@ Rodimus Supreme	:	(09 December 2018 - 10:23 AM) Pillows can kill you softly.
@ Pennpenn	:	(09 December 2018 - 07:26 AM) His song.
@ NotVeryKnightly	:	(09 December 2018 - 05:34 AM) But is anything killing you softly?
@ Pennpenn	:	(09 December 2018 - 03:03 AM) Oh don't be ridiculous. Some things are killing us quickly!
@ Rodimus Supreme	:	(08 December 2018 - 10:46 PM) Isn't everything just killing us all slowly?...
@ wonko the sane?	:	(08 December 2018 - 09:23 PM) Except the planet of junk actually fosters life, as opposed to the garbage patch which is just killing us all slowly.
@ RichardT1977	:	(08 December 2018 - 11:11 AM) I realized the other day that the Planet of Junk/Junkion is the interstellar counterpart to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
@ unluckiness	:	(08 December 2018 - 08:56 AM) awards are a joke to begin with. One for video games makes it twice so.
@ TheMightyMol...	:	(08 December 2018 - 03:21 AM) Sorry, I had beans.
@ Waspinator	:	(07 December 2018 - 11:50 PM) The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
@ PlutoniumBoss	:	(07 December 2018 - 10:33 PM) Always hopeful yet discontent, he knows changes aren't permanent, but change is!
@ Pennpenn	:	(07 December 2018 - 07:16 PM) Nonsense. Everything changes, the cycle is an illusion.
@ Waspinator	:	(07 December 2018 - 07:03 PM) Turning, turning, turning through the years. Minutes into hours, and the hours into years. Nothing changes, nothing ever can. Round about the roundabout. Round and round and back where you began!
@ Pennpenn	:	(07 December 2018 - 06:56 PM) The change was you got something off your wishlist. Be happy about that if nothing else!