"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
06/19/2018 at 09:06 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
06/19/2018 at 09:06 • Filed to: None | 1
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This is the smallest hotel room I have been in, at the Hampton Inn on Mission in San Francisco.
This photo doesn’t capture it, because I was backed up against the door when I took it.
I am in SF for an “Early Neutral Evaluation,” an alternative dispute resolution process where we state our case in writing and orally to a third party neutral who tells us who he thinks will win, a d tries to get us to talk settlement. This was ordered by the court, and I have never done it before. I think it is basically mediation by another name. I actually suggested it because my client is stubborn and this was the only way to get him to even think about settlement (which is the smart thing to do).
It is an entirely uninteresting class action about wages and meal breaks for strawberry harvesters. Here are the basic facts. Everybody did ok, and nobody complained. Workers averaged over $16 per hour, and no one ever went home having made less than minimum wage for the day. Lawyers hooked up with a disgruntled employee, and make a technical argument about the calculation of incentive pay. They also say lunch time was shortened by handwashing and exiting the field.
It doesn’t matter if its true, I know how this story ends. We will litigate for a while and cost my client money until they get sick of it and settle. The workers will get a pittance, at most maybe $1000 for the longest term people, and the lawyers will get six figures. Justice!
If you hadn’t guessed, I don’t want to be here.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 09:13 |
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That’s actually bigger than the room I had when I went to NYC.
Cé hé sin
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 09:16 |
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I’m guessing you’ve not stayed in cheap hotels in Paris!
jimz
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 09:17 |
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that’s a palace compared to the first hotel room I stayed in my first time in Japan. Due to flight delays we missed the last (9 p.m.) train from Ueno station to Iwaki, so a very nice police officer directed us to a hotel a couple of blocks away. culture shock set in in several stages:
Stage 1: the door to enter the room was smaller than the bedroom closet door of a 1950s-era bungalow.
Stage 2: The bed was roughly twin-sized, and there was literally one foot of room on either side of it.
Stage 3: there was a “desk” (shelf with a TV and lamp) at the foot of the bed, but no chair. See, because you just sat on the bed.
Stage 4: there were beer vending machines in the hall, which made everything better.
Chuckles
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 09:28 |
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If there’s room for a king size bed, you could be a lot worse off.
ttyymmnn
> Cé hé sin
06/19/2018 at 09:30 |
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I’ve stayed in not-so-cheap hotels in Paris and it’s about the same.
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> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 10:05 |
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Oh, that is small, I’ll be at Moscone at ten, also not wanting to be there!
CompactLuxuryFan
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 10:37 |
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That’s a couple of blocks from my office. Beats the Travelodge on Market & Valencia I’m sure. Looking dreary right now but should get sunny later!
duurtlang
> Cé hé sin
06/19/2018 at 11:03 |
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I once stayed in a cheap hotel room in Toulouse, France. This was during the carbagerun I participated in with my brother in law. I shared the room with him as well, something I had done multiple times before. This room though, that bed was so narrow that despite being unwanted cuddling could not be prevented.
I’ve never encountered a hotel room that small since.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 12:20 |
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I generally despise going to San Francisco. Portland on the other hand I really enjoy.
7:07
> ImmoralMinority
06/19/2018 at 12:38 |
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