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Working for Free, or, Modern Life in Higher Education

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 6, 2022

labor This story got a lot of attention when the job ad was announced, but I am glad it is getting real media attention now. The job posting for an assistant adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, set high expectations for candidates:...

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Labor Exploitation at the Super Bowl

By Erik Loomis

On January 26, 2022

If you think the people dancing and doing their thing at the Super Bowl are being treated well in terms of working conditions, well you are one naive person. After.

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NFL Cheerleader Bill of Rights

By Erik Loomis

On April 13, 2015

It's about time. A bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to give employee rights and benefits to professional sports cheerleaders passed its first committee in Sacramento this week. Gonzalez, a former.

“The Occasionally Repulsive Gift That Keeps on Giving”

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 10, 2014

The above quote is how Michael Powell describes the NFL in this Times article on the horrible treatment of the Buffalo Bills' cheerleaders, a problem experienced by these workers through the NFL. Supervisors ordered the cheerleaders, known as the Buffalo Jills, to warm up in...

Lori
Likely to be.
IOW, this guy is pulling it out his ass. He has no evidence, only bigotry and resentment, the marks of loserdom. So surprising.
“Meritocracy” for dorks who peaked in grade 11 · January 3, 2026
Chris ha ha oh wow Yeah so, they just used floating-point for all the grades, and they got either rounded off or just truncated, presumably. Floating-point in computers, which is mainly useful in...
“Meritocracy” for dorks who peaked in grade 11 · January 3, 2026
Karen, aka Cassandra of Texas I was a National Merit Scholar. Give me tenure.
“Meritocracy” for dorks who peaked in grade 11 · January 3, 2026
Lori Same. I am really good at taking standardized tests. Only 1 time did I ever test lower than 95th percentile on any graded section of a standardized test. That's not a brag, just a statement of...
“Meritocracy” for dorks who peaked in grade 11 · January 3, 2026
randy khan I couldn't have told anyone my GPA when I was in high school because I didn't care then and haven't cared ever since. I also couldn't tell you my GPA from any later education....
“Meritocracy” for dorks who peaked in grade 11 · January 3, 2026