412: Bottle Head
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
More tech unions; put your thinking caps on when you launch your browser; gig economy unintended consequences; Alexa Is A Human; checking in to butthole; the Good Place; Hardcore History; Mo Amer; Daniel Sloss; 2 billion hours of Sandler; Mumbai red lights; Google photos; bottle heads & coronavirus; feedback.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.7 | Little follow up Brian and our quest for the the the little man in the gig |
| 0:26.6 | worker economy. Instacart workers win historic union election. |
| 0:33.4 | Alright, so so far we have the food people at Google and the food collectors at |
| 0:39.9 | Instacart. I apparently have to work in food to get unionized in tech. |
| 0:44.4 | That's right. A whopping a whopping 14 person a vote was held and I was 10 to |
| 0:52.5 | four in favor of the union according to the workers and they say the overwhelming |
| 0:58.0 | majority of the employees made history by becoming the first Instacart employees to |
| 1:01.7 | win a certified union election in the United States. That's that's really really |
| 1:06.3 | drilling down on history right there. Telling you let's pinpoint that one right there. |
| 1:14.1 | And this comes from UFC W local 1546 in a press statement. So okay. |
| 1:20.5 | Alright, Instacart has come back and said Instacart cares deeply about all members of |
| 1:24.8 | our community, which includes in store shoppers who are part time employees. |
| 1:29.2 | Okay, we will always support employee freedom and choice and we respect our |
| 1:33.2 | employees rights to explore unionization. Yeah, right there. Explore unionization. |
| 1:38.9 | Not actually unionizing. Right. |
| 1:42.0 | Pending certification of the election results Instacart will honor the outcome of |
| 1:45.4 | this election and the decision of these 15 part time employees. So apparently one |
| 1:49.5 | person abstained from the vote in Skokie Illinois to choose union representation. |
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