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Question reblogged from Neil Gaiman
Hello mr Gaiman, I Hope you're having a nice day.
(i don't know if anyone asked you this before), so i was reading the script of GO S1 ep1 and got curious, what made you change the names of the four horsemen of the apocalypse from Scarlett, White and Sable (sorry i don't know what Death was called) to War, Pollution and Famine ?
And why change White's (Pollution's) gender from male to female ?
Asked by willz-art
The names they were using in polite company were still Scarlett (and Zingiber), White and Sable. Those are just the names of colours, though. (Zingiber means ginger in Latin.) They were War, Pollution and Famine all along, as they were in the book.
In the shooting scripts all of the Four Horsemen stuff happened in episode 1, but when it was edited together it was too distracting so we had to cut it a lot and break it up through the episodes. (I was saddest about the War stuff. We shot so much good stuff, and it was barely glimpsed.)
We changed Pollution/White from male to non-binary because it felt better for balance.
It is Carmine (another shade of red) :) Eleven years ago, when we first meet her in the book, she was going by Scarlett though.
In the book, her last name was Zuigiber but was fixed to Zingiber for the show
Pollution goes by different names related to white
I think we see Famine using only Dr. Sable
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Photoset reblogged from Singing Sorrowless
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
- Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
- Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
- Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
- A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
Fantastic addition
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Post reblogged from Singing Sorrowless
Everyone was aghast that submersible guy’s stepson when to a Blink-182 concert while his stepdad was missing but tbh how many of us would care if our least favorite stepparent disappeared?
What the hell was he going to do that evening anyway? Get out the sonar and go look for him himself?
the funniest plot twist was finding out that dude legally could not leave the country because his passport was confiscated after he threatened to shoot up a rave 3 years ago
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Post reblogged from Minerva P Kelley
James Crown of JPMorgan died in a racing accident
Thank you for not making it a Destiel meme
I never saw supernatural I don’t want to appropriate that
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Post reblogged from llama matriarch
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reblogging SPECIFICALLY for the End Note which is widely applicable
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Post reblogged from Only gay if we're homies
Hey @evilwizard found a target for that lightning blast scroll you’ve been sitting on.
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Post reblogged from llama matriarch
LOST in that fuckin sauce
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Post reblogged from oh, and, uh, just one more thing
“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
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Post reblogged from previously funnytwittertweets
