The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Job contracts are barely a thing in America.  The vast majority of workers don't have any formal employment contracts;  usually they just apply to unionized jobs (which are what, 12% of all jobs in America?).

Yup.  The closest thing to a contract most of us will see is an employment handbook, which lays out what they can fire you for.

What exactly does contract mean here? Surely there's an agreement?

[Liep]

Saw 6-7 jetskis speeding along the habour, thought I hope they'll be fined heavily for that. Turns out they all got arrested. One of them had hit a boat killing a girl and injuring 7 others 5 minutes earlier. Now I hope they'll all be thrown in jail.

[Jacob]

Saw 6-7 jetskis speeding along the habour, thought I hope they'll be fined heavily for that. Turns out they all got arrested. One of them had hit a boat killing a girl and injuring 7 others 5 minutes earlier. Now I hope they'll all be thrown in jail.

The fact that they sailed off after causing the accident makes them not only irresponsible idiots, but straight up despicable.

[mongers]

Saw 6-7 jetskis speeding along the habour, thought I hope they'll be fined heavily for that. Turns out they all got arrested. One of them had hit a boat killing a girl and injuring 7 others 5 minutes earlier. Now I hope they'll all be thrown in jail.

That's sickening. 

[Admiral Yi]

Hope they get at least 3 weeks! 

[Ed Anger]

Damn, what a borefest. Plus my Migraines are bad today.

[CountDeMoney]

But it's a Saturday night in southwest Ohio, Ed.  Put on your best wife beater t-shirt, toss the brood into the station wagon, and head on down to the Dairy Queen for some frozen chocolate bananas.

[Ed Anger]

I'm not sugaring up those kids at this late hour. I'd have a prison riot in a couple of hours. I might get a shiv in the back.

[CountDeMoney]

Fine, give them yogurt with fruit.  Watch them melt down.

[Ed Anger]

And the kids like Blizzards. Reece cup blizzards.

[PDH]

And the kids like Blizzards. Reece cup blizzards.

Jeezus, crack blizzards

[Eddie Teach]

And the kids like Blizzards. Reece cup blizzards.

Who can blame them?

[derspiess]

Fuck off.

[crazy canuck]

How are participation rates doing?

Declining in both Canada and the US especially for younger people looking for work - which is the main reason the unemployment rate in both countries is decreasing.

I think that's way too strong of a statement, maybe even to the point of being completely factually false.  It's a perennial argument, usually by the political opposition supporters or habitual pessimists, that unemployment numbers are artificially low because a lot of unemployed are not counted as unemployed.  It's always a bullshit argument, at least in US.

Tell that to StatsCan

The federal agency also found that the unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent last month, its lowest level since October 2008 as fewer youth searched for work.

Statistics Canada says the drop in youth participation helped push the jobless rate down by 0.2 percentage points even though overall employment was almost unchanged.

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/canadas-unemployment-rate-falls-to-6-5-per-cent/

[DGuller]

That's one monthly movement.  Even in US there are times when both employment and unemployment numbers go down in the same month.  Given stated statistical uncertainty, that's guaranteed to happen occasionally. 

I don't know the details of how it's measured in Canada, but I imagine statistical noise must be even greater than in US due to lower population (unless they keep the sample size at US levels), if it's measured in roughly the same way.  Whatever the reason, drawing conclusions based on one single monthly report in unwise.