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[–] kayjustkay 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Nice try Venture Capital firm.

Delivery services. Basic man with a van stuff. Need to move apt? Have a washing machine needs taken to the dump? Seen a piano on craigslist you want?

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[–] anonomale 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That's not a terrible idea. I'm taking baby steps toward trying to be more involved (at the local level) and realizing that even if you want to participate in your community, it's a big pain in the ass. You've got to figure out which social circles to get yourself into and then comb through Facebook events to try and find the right group and then vet all of it. It'd be way easier if there was just an app with a notification a la "city meeting at 7:00 at this address, here's the highlights".

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[–] 1437192? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Automotive repair. Auto techs have been getting the shaft for last 15 years or so every year the fucking keeps getting worse.

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[–] Drenki ago  (edited ago)

I thought the secret auto mechanics union kept them fat and happy. Places around here always charge updwards of $60-75/ hour and quote repair times that are 4-8x as long as necessary.

Just as an example, I needed spark plugs (just plugs, nothing else) replaced on a 2002 Taurus SOHV. They quoted me $500 with a straight face.

It's a 15 minute job that requires approximately $35 in parts.

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[–] crankypants15 ago  (edited ago)

My dad used to work for a F500 automobile maker, and he worked with marketers and engineers on a regular basis, mainly to ask why a particular model was so fucked up, and to have a good laugh. Here's what happens when a new car body is designed. The marketing dept designs the body you see. The marketing department says "Fit all these features in this body", and the engineers have to do it. So, basically the marketers are responsible for your spark plugs being a PITA to change. Hence the longer time to change spark plugs, and higher charge for some cars.

The US auto companies used to use something like 600+ different fasteners on a single model! I think they got it down to 400 different fasteners. There's a lot of nepotism in the US auto industry, and that's one reason why the cars are more expensive.

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[–] 1491872? ago 

The way most auto techs are paid Is called flat rate. That means a given job has a given labor time and the shop charges the customer and pays the tech accordingly. The shop labor charge is not what the tech gets paid not even close. The shop I worked for charge $105 an hour labor but I only got 25 and I was the highest paid in the shop. And for the most part thats fair and its worked for a long time. The problem comes from warranty work Where the labor time for that could be 50% of the normal labor time so you end up doing the same amount of work for half the price because a corporation wanted to give something a warranty. Now say your a fresh out of school tech and you land a job at a dealership. they start you off at 12 bucks an hour Then you go to the tool guy and finance $40k worth of snap on tools. Now after 3 weeks of work you realize that all the work you get is warranty work cause your the low bitch on the tree and that 12 bucks an hour doesn't sound so good. So you end up work 10-11 hours a day 6 days a week realizing you should of just started working at mcdonalds or something and made almost the same with out all the stress lol well at least on slow weeks. So basically the customer gets fucked the tech gets fucked and the shop makes bank and there is to many techs lining up to get fucked for it to ever change. Now there is places that aren't like that fleet repairs and the like often don't pay flat rate and its easy 9-5 but those jobs are kinda rare and have people lined up to get at them.

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[–] luckyguy ago 

I'd really like to see that with website advertising. The big players are so demanding and they give so little and it costs so much to advertise. I think there needs to be services to get in touch with a site and work with them directly with an intermediary setting a few rules about how you are going to interact with each other to keep conversation streamlined and contracting and getting contracted liquid.

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[–] escape 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Uberizing (I can't believe that's a verb) comes with obvious advantages but it also comes with less obvious disadvantages. Here's a good article about why many things cannot successfully be uberized and the dangers of uberizing everything: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04/01/uberization-uber-of-everything_n_6971752.html

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[–] Raverdash ago 

Healthcare