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College girl students molested by thousand of men

zerozero00 — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:01:02 +0800

Reports that large crowds of men sexually harassed and abused students at a women's college in the Indian capital of New Delhi last week has sparked an outcry and protests there.
The men barged onto the Gargi College campus in South Delhi last Thursday, on the final day of a school festival, allegedly molesting and sexually assaulting the female students en masse, according to a statement issued by the General Body of Students.
The student group said that "thousands" of men jumped the gates of the university, descended onto the campus and damaged property, while police and non-teaching staff stood by and did nothing.

"Men stood in gangs and ogled at women, groped them, tried to feel them up, pushed them, and touched them throughout the concert," the statement read.
"People formed human chains to move from one area to another. After the concert was over, the men followed women, catcalled them, and forced them to reveal their names and Instagram IDs."
New Delhi police said it had filed an official complaint against unidentified people for trespassing, as well as assaulting and harassing women, at a Delhi college last week.
"We are in touch with the principal of the college and are looking at CCTV footage as well," police spokesperson Anil Mittal said.

Sauce: https://www.9news.com.au/world/outcry-over-...bd-580fcde579e8

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Cafe Du Monde Chicory Coffee

zerozero00 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:30:22 +0800

My American friend said this is nice and wanna send a box of gifts to me (real one, not Nikka scam). Since he has limited space in the box, I wonder what I should really fill it with? Is this coffee really nice?

Report alleges Amazon worked with Indiana to downp

zerozero00 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:11:38 +0800

It’s strange that no matter how hard Amazon denies that its warehouses are terrible, dangerous places to work, the reports to that effect just keep coming out. Not only that, but now a whistleblower alleges the company worked with Indiana officials to erase a workplace safety violation that cost a man his life.

Reveal News reports the whistleblower’s account of Phillip Lee Terry’s death in 2017 and the subsequent efforts to shift blame from Amazon to the deceased. The full report is worth reading; it implicates Amazon, the head of Indiana’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and even the governor.

The short version is this: Terry died on the job in a forklift accident. An investigation conducted by the whistleblower, John Stallone, found that Amazon had failed to provide adequate safety training. Citations were issued and $28,000 in fines proposed. But Stallone’s boss, IOSHA’s director, directly contacted Amazon and discussed how they might reduce those fines and place the blame on Terry.

Stallone knows this because he was in the room and recorded the conversation, which Reveal News listened to. Amazon told TechCrunch that it “worked directly with [IOSHA] during the inspection and in follow-up discussions to provide Mr. Terry’s training records.” When I asked directly whether the company disputed Stallone’s account of the call, the representative suggested I contact the Indiana state government instead.

A few days later, Stallone said, he was called into the office of Indiana’s Labor Commissioner, Rick Ruble, and found the governor, Eric Holcomb, there as well. He was told to stop pursuing the case, according to Stallone’s account, because of — you guessed it — Indiana’s aspirations to host Amazon’s HQ2.

Stallone soon quit, and a year later, the fines were reversed and all four safety violations were struck from the record. Instead it is listed as an “unpreventable employee misconduct,” meaning Terry was legally responsible for his own death — counter to the conclusions of the investigation, which had Terry’s coworker on the record stating Amazon had failed to provide proper training.

Governor Holcomb retaliated with a statement denying any involvement with a Labor Department case, denying he ever had the meeting Stallone describes, called the allegations “fabricated” and the report “irresponsible and deliberately misleading… heinous lies.”

It’s hard to imagine why Stallone would fabricate such a meeting, when other efforts by state officials to quash these violations and fines are on record. It has not yet been shown beyond the two competing claims whether the meeting indeed took place, but presumably it was informal anyway, which provides the governor plausible deniability.

This would all be harder to believe if we hadn’t seen the frenzy of servility Amazon’s HQ2 announcement provoked nationwide. Or if the allegations of poor working conditions at Amazon warehouses hadn’t continued to pile up in the meantime. Reveal’s investigations related to the whistleblower’s case show an alarmingly high number of injuries at Amazon’s facilities.

In a statement, Amazon said that it takes “an aggressive stance on recording injuries no matter how big or small,” leading to higher numbers than other, similar work environments. As usual, workers at the warehouses dispute Amazon’s account, recalling systematic efforts to under-report and increases in injuries coming from automation.

One thing is certain: Ordering from Amazon during the holidays adds pressure to a warehouse system that by many accounts is already operating at superhuman levels — with very human costs. Perhaps shopping local is a better move this year.

Sos cili - https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/26/report-al...afety-concerns/

Which is the best BKT in Klang?

zerozero00 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:30:22 +0800

Dear /k,

I'll be bringing my foreign friends for tour in Klang Valley area and have decided to let them try BKT.
Where is the best dry & soup BKT you recommend in Klang?

P.S. I normally eat BKT not in Klang, so yeah...

Anyone here started a successful startup b4?

zerozero00 — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:41:56 +0800

Has anyone here started a successful startup b4? did the idea bug you everyday?

Been reading several depressing tereds lately from /ktards about suicides, I assume from loss of job? Feel like helping in a way, but dunno how. So here I am, asking your advices

Genuine question, no MLM/scam.