Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Just wanted to let you all know that Diane, Mollie, Lauren and I have talked it over, and inspired by the National Labor Relations Board, we've unionized. We may well go on strike, possibly for as long as 58 days at a time. We sure can't promise not to. Too bad if the place falls apart while we're striking. We have the right to strike.
Management: If you try to find editors who don't go on 58-day strikes when you've got customers to satisfy, that's coercive speech. In fact, if you try to hire new editors, we'll call in the Feds. We're pretty confident they'll tell you it's fine to hire new editors as long as you keep us on the payroll.
Ricochet members: You'll keep paying for our unreliable product, right? Well, someone will. The money grows on trees.
Investors: Isn't this company tempting?
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Jun '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
You're going to make the Ricochet bosses take their jobs overseas...oh wait...nevermind.
Dec '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
You should demand a doubling, no tripling of your salary.
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
They can always move you to Tennessee, which is a right to work state. Umm, not a lot of room, need an air mattress or something. But I can referee the inevitable pillow fight.
Guess we should clear this with the NLRB.
Aug '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
In other news...Rob Long incorporates "PoliKlatch" in Nevada and hires a talented staff of editors who all reside in that right to work state.
Sep '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
You go grrls! If I were you, I'd also be demanding long-term, reduced-age benefits and the right not to have to change for anything!
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Claire, you should should retire from editing and charge Diane, Mollie, and Lauren mandatory dues, paying yourself handsomely for "representing" them. Leftists will fall all over themselves defending the importance of your job, no matter how much you take from your members while using them as props.
In retrospect, you maybe should have waited until Ricochet had more employees. Hard to squeeze $200k in dues out of three people!
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
No worries, Jason, my model of the economy here is "It all works out great for me somehow."
Mar '11
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
A class action suite, along the lines of that against the Huffington Post, might be more effective. That would teach the Capitalist Running Dogs @ Richochet a lesson they won't soon forget.
And we subscribers should have the right to withhold our subscriptions, also - it's our right to comment for free ;-)
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Ladies and Gentlemen, to the members page! I'm breaking these people with my blogging goons: Kenneth on politics, Lance on culture and I'm doubling up in sports and the comics section.
Jun '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
EJ: I'm willing to be in charge of random, irrelevant comments that kidnap otherwise intelligent threads.
BTW, what do you think of global warming?
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Wait, how many editors are female? A majority? Isn't that gender discrimination?
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Filling that slot'll be some hard-fought turf. Ricogeddon.
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
A totality, in fact. The Three Furies (or four, Emily's kinda busy at present). The thing about conservatives is we got no problem being run by The Bangles. A distinct contrast with the Left.
Jun '10
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Kennedy Smith
Filling that slot'll be some hard-fought turf. Ricogeddon. · Apr 21 at 11:53am
I think I have the resume to be considered, but I admit that the competition will be rough.
Maybe I could be considered for random, irrelevant comments that are so bad they not only don't kidnap the thread, but no one else reads them. I specialize in that--it's a gift.
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Is this right or am I have an 80's flashback?
Jul '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
With Queen Claire and The Ladies of Ricochet on strike, no longer maintaining the high standards, it's only a matter of moments before The Main Feed is entirely full of posts about flatulence.
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Oh wow. Claire having an all-too-familiar Bad Hair Day. And where did you get Mollie's employee ID at the Pump-n-Munch (2nd shift)?
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Claire, you beat me to this! My post on the Member Feed goes into a bit more detail on my position. To summarize, this decision coupled with my former life as a corporate site selection strategist, has left me feeling a bit like a resident of bizarre-o-land... Reading this NLRB story is like receiving the wrong outcome of an acid test. Our government, more specifically this government, just does not get it.
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Every rock group has to have the one portrait that implies a serious, hidden meaning.
May '10
Re: Attention: Ricochet's Editors Have the Right to Strike
Y'know, if you start doing a certain Spinal Tap album cover, I will not be responsible for the civilian deaths in the editorial crackdown. That blood is on your hands.