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Rachel Premack
3 months
Folks… today is my last day at FreightWaves and the last edition of MODES (for now). Thank you to everyone who has read my logistics reporting since 2018 and to my FreightWaves colleagues for 22 fantastic months together. More here:
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Rachel Premack
4 years
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This is big — UPS' 3,300 pilots say they will not fly if the company's Teamsters package drivers strike
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Priya Krishna, Rick Martinez, and Sohla El-Waylly will no longer be in Test Kitchen videos, as they announced on Instagram a few minutes ago Thank you to each for taking the time to explain to me why they’re leaving:
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Rachel Premack
1 year
It gives me no pleasure to announce that Big Boy has fallen victim to refinement culture
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Rachel Premack
1 year
spotted in Brooklyn: a woman wearing a “Tax the Rich” sweatshirt and Balenciaga sneakers
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Rachel Premack
2 years
sweetgreen...I literally do not care if my password is "weak" you are a damn salad company
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Rachel Premack
2 months
Don’t speak to me, my three mortgages or my $3,500 weekly restaurant budget ever again
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Rachel Premack
4 years
new followers.... welcome..... and get ready to learn about the TRUCKING INDUSTRY
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Rachel Premack
2 years
actual milk is way better than oat milk. few get this
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Rachel Premack
4 years
there’s a very good reason my core readership of truck drivers don’t trust publications like The New York Times to accurately and empathetically report on them
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Rachel Premack
4 years
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Rachel Premack
4 years
I spent the last few weeks talking to 14 current and former Bon Appétit staffers who are people of color. They described a toxic, racist workplace where former EIC Adam Rapoport was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Rachel Premack
3 years
Everyone should stop pretending to like beer. There’s no way anyone actually likes beer
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Rachel Premack
4 years
it continually blows my mind that I am the only reporter at any mainstream publication who covers the trucking industry as a beat — but a group of 2 million laborers whose income has slashed by up to 50% in the past 40 years is simply not important to most reporters that I know
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Lee Fang
4 years
The class divide has never been so apparent in media. Many journalists grew up rich, went to $20k a year prep schools, are obsessed with fights over vocabulary, symbols, fringe boogeymen -- ignore crumbling public schools, unsafe streets, rampant poverty as secondary concerns.
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Rachel Premack
2 months
I gotta say this guy is pretty good at being rich, per his restaurant selection and food writing
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Rachel Premack
2 years
omicron day 4: EA games support chat version
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Rachel Premack
6 years
The guy running the National Space Council is named S. Pace
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Condé execs took the stage today at a big media conference to declare their commitment to diversity. Meanwhile, BA video talent are on week 2 of refusing to film as Condé drags its feet on delivering a fair contract for non-white talent — many of whom were unpaid for vid work.
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Rachel Premack
4 years
everyone needs to watch this
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4 years
the fact that sohla was hired at bon appetit for $50K/year and doesn’t get paid for video appearances like her white colleagues is digusting. anyways here’s a montage of her cooking circles around everyone at ba
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Trump claims "much more" people die from car accidents than seasonal flu, and suggests coronavirus does not warrant economic shutdown US flu deaths: 61,200 (2018-19) US fatal car accident deaths: 33,654 (2019) CDC estimates for coronavirus deaths in US: 200,000 to 1.7 million
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Aaron Rupar
4 years
Trump suggests going back to work during a pandemic is really no big deal because lots of people die from the flu and car accidents
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Rachel Premack
2 years
Says the founder of AriZona iced tea: “I’m committed to that 99 cent price ... I don’t want to do what the bread guys and the gas guys and everybody else are doing. Consumers don’t need another price increase from a guy like me."
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Rachel Premack
2 months
@parismartineau Sorry she’s exploring her creative side!
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Rachel Premack
4 years
NEW: Condé Nast has suspended the Bon Appétit video editor behind It's Alive by Brad Leone. Condé says there were "many concerns" internally about Matt Hunziker. Employees claim Hunziker's social media posts criticizing Condé likely got him suspended.
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Rachel Premack
1 year
NEW: 3 years ago in the region of its derailment, Norfolk Southern employed 5 senior workers who specialized in maintaining detectors that prevent derailments Now, they employ 0 Federal regs don't cover the usage or maintenance of this type of detector
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Rachel Premack
2 years
I have some personal news...! I am feeling bittersweet to announce that today is my last day @businessinsider . Next month, I am joining @FreightWaves as its editorial director.
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Rachel Premack
4 years
NEW: Condé Nast has launched an official investigation into vice president Matt Duckor, who tweeted about "hot Asian women" and repeatedly dismissed staffers of color who called for more diversity in video
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Rachel Premack
3 years
Trucking is a hot topic nowadays! You might be wondering how this world works — particularly why the industry says it's facing a "truck driver shortage" that's contributing to supply chain disruptions Here's a labor-focused thread on what you should know about trucking...
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Rachel Premack
8 years
Jim Harbaugh got drenched with water onstage at Migos.
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Rachel Premack
3 years
this is what ‘s front page headlines look like
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Condé Nast Entertainment president Oren Katzeff, whose past tweets of racist and sexist jokes has raised internal ire, has not been suspended or internally investigated.
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Rachel Premack
1 year
How is a federal analysis of the environmental impacts of a rail merger 1,000+ pages long? Because of sections like this
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Rachel Premack
2 years
Someone had to say it…. The Big Boat Era is ruining everything! I spoke with experts this week to learn about why ocean carriers’ obsession with megaships have caused much of our supply chain headaches. Read this week’s MODES at @freightwaves :
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Rachel Premack
16 days
@PstafarianPrice I’ve never related to anyone on the internet more than her
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Rachel Premack
4 years
I spent three months digging into the billion dollar gummy vitamin industry and how clever marketers got us eating candy for our health. I have this tale of failed Jolly Ranchers vitamins and boiled pig skins to share:
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Rachel Premack
2 years
I just finished “The World for Sale” by @JavierBlas @jfarchy and am now obsessed with COMMODITIES
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Rachel Premack
4 years
@mannyfidel kevin spacey...
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Rachel Premack
3 years
One CEO tells @annehelen : “Executives have had flex forever. I’ve been able to work from home on Fridays in the summers since 1992. "People always say that the future is here, it just hasn’t been evenly distributed. And that’s true."
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Denmark is paying laid-off workers 75% of their salaries. That’s 13% of the tiny nation’s GDP. Danish prof reasons: “If you ruin people’s private lives and companies go bankrupt, it will take years to build this up again. So I think it’s a wise decision.”
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Rachel Premack
2 years
finally.... a good post on LinkedIn
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Rachel Premack
1 year
Bank of America wrote that Norfolk Southern may have to pay $40 million to $50 million in a “casualty charge" In 2022, $NS generated some $12.7B in revenue and $3B in profits
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Rachel Premack
2 years
it is finally time for a media outlet for the college educated and English speaking
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Rachel Premack
3 years
person: the mainstream media is IGNORING this issue me: hi I am writing about this issue can I interview u person: no
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Rachel Premack
1 year
@mindyisser is everyone who is mad at you for having a baby aware that they were, at one point, a baby
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Rachel Premack
2 years
NEW SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS JUST DROPPED Low water levels on the Mississippi River is slowing down barges That could threaten exports of grain, soy, coal, etc. at a time when the world needs key commodities more than ever My latest @FreightWaves MODES:
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Rachel Premack
3 years
NEW: Former Young Life members said they experienced sexual misconduct by peers or ministry leaders. The mega-ministry mishandled their complaints, they said. Some were suspended after reporting.
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Rachel Premack
3 years
I love this existence of this wikipedia page
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Rachel Premack
1 year
I had a breakthrough last night in how we can all keep our jobs amid ChatGPT. I believe inevitably the AIs will develop mental illness.
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Rachel Premack
3 years
Something appears amiss with the Subway founder's charity
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Rachel Premack
5 years
who needs the “bond market” when you can learn we’re headed for a recession by studying the 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔟𝔞𝔱𝔥
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Rachel Premack
2 years
US RAIL CHAOS Shippers are furious at declining rail performance, and crews could strike as soon as July 18 Rail volumes are actually *down* from last year, but congestion is way up I detail what the heck is happening my latest @FreightWaves MODES:
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Rachel Premack
4 years
NEW: More than a dozen Condé Nast employees described a “racist” vetting process at the publisher’s video department, and how the two men behind it control what gets published
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Rachel Premack
1 year
This morning, the largest rail union announced it voted down its contract deal brokered by the White House Union could impose a lockout on Dec. 5, which would crush the US economy
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Rachel Premack
6 months
I got married this month, went on my honeymoon, and am now back in business! Luckily it appears I missed nothing major in world or logistics news these past two weeks.
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Rachel Premack
2 years
one of my top hobbies is driving value for stakeholders
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Rachel Premack
2 years
my contribution to this nation is that I stack the empty bins crowding baggage check after going through TSA
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Rachel Premack
2 years
I would posit that my father, who instilled in me from a young age a hatred for canola oil, is the original anti-seed oil influencer
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Rachel Premack
4 years
among the many interesting findings from @TheSporkful : after BI's story on Hunzi's suspension, Anna Wintour assembled a 7 pm Zoom call to tell @bonappetit staffers to delete any social media posts in support of @matthunzi
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Rachel Premack
3 years
I won the Drum Awards' Journalist of the Year! Thank you to my editors at Business Insider, and for the fearless former and current staffers at Bon Appétit/Condé Nast who spoke out on injustice.
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Rachel Premack
2 years
mainstream coverage about trucking, like this New York Times piece, continues to baffle me ~22% of truck drivers are Hispanic, 15% are Black, per Census data there's no reliable data on education levels of drivers, but I've spoken to plenty with college degrees
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Rachel Premack
8 months
I find it interesting that articles like this rarely explore any change in pay, unionization rates, or quality of life for these professions over the past few decades
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Rachel Premack
3 years
Thanx to the Drum Awards for deeming me a Journalist of the Year!
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Rachel Premack
4 years
my employer pays white editorial employees $10,000 more than BIPOC editorial employees. it also pays men across the board $13,000 more than women.
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Max Tani
4 years
Insider/BI has released its pay equity report. Info shows white employees make more than BIPOC employees, men make significantly more than women.
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Rachel Premack
2 years
the schadenfreude that accompanies crypto crashes/people losing their savings is really gross
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4 years
The FDA now has an entire handbook on how to convert your refrigerated truck from a coronavirus morgue back to hauling food It is okay to still use the truck to move food even if bodily fluids from humans leaked onto the truck, FDA says
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Rachel Premack
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❄️🚨 Alaskan trucking fleets are about to enter a hiring spree for literal ice road truckers — paying them as much as $170,000 a year This summer, I went to Alaska to find out what the job is really like Here's my tale
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Rachel Premack
3 years
growing up as a slovenly moron in the midwest I had to handcraft my own soda pop and bonbons. no stores or stoplights for miles.....
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Alison Leiby
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People who live outside of NYC and don't have bodegas: where do you go to buy two Diet Cokes, a roll of paper towels, and oh also lemme get some peanut butter m&ms since I'm here, why not
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Rachel Premack
4 years
in contact... with....
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Rachel Premack
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Why ZYN, a Swedish nicotine pouch, is so bizarrely popular (and memeable)
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I just learned.... in my author bio..... at the business media organization at which I am employed..... I had misspelled....the word "business"
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2 years
A major Supreme Court hearing you may have missed today: AB5 is set to go into effect in California's trucking sector This means 70,000+ CA truckers will now be classified as employees who get overtime, sick leave, and other benefits
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Rachel Premack
4 years
this is such an incredibly wrong, racist and potentially dangerous/destructive thing for an authority figure to say
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Sen. John Cornyn: "China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats & snakes & dogs & things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu."
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If you’re wondering why so many Americans don’t trust the media, note this ghoulish coverage, which has become something of a genre among many left-leaning publications
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NBC News
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A man who mocked Covid-19 vaccinations on social media has died at a Los Angeles-area hospital after contracting the virus. “I got 99 problems but a vax ain't one," he wrote in a tweet last month.
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Rachel Premack
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@JamesWatson210 @jackmurphylive exactly. and in NYC it is next to impossible to actually travel more than 2 miles. you'd be in traffic or the subway forever. I'm now at my parents' house in Metro Detroit and we have to go more than 1 mile to get to a grocery store — this is a pretty dense suburb too!
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Rachel Premack
2 years
Why are high-end restaurants that serve food like scallops, mussels, duck breast, etc. cooking with such a low-quality oil?
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Rachel Premack
3 years
The secret behind the shortages and rising prices of everything is our global shipping crisis. I wrote about what the heck is going on for @BusinessInsider :
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Rachel Premack
6 months
No offense to the environment but refineries are really cool and impressive looking
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Rachel Premack
2 years
"The trucking industry could get people back tomorrow. Advertise jobs as $30 an hour, plus overtime after 8 hours. Pay for parking, load and unload, breakdowns. The driver shortage will resolve itself overnight."
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Rachel Premack
3 years
If you’ve ever needed a repair on your MacBook, it’s likely that a technician at CSAT Solutions, a major Apple contractor, saw to it. I spoke to 10 CSAT associates about what it’s like to work there — and many of them called it a “sweatshop.”
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Rachel Premack
4 years
I am thinking about this medieval sketch a lot right now for no particular reason
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Rachel Premack
2 years
I am making my Odd Lots debut! Thank you for having me on and allowing me to talk about the goshdarn 1980 Motor Carrier Act @tracyalloway and @TheStalwart
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Rachel Premack
4 years
per Social Blade, Bon App lost ~10,000 YouTube subscribers yday following the news that editor Matt Hunziker was apparently suspended for critiquing racism at Bon App. (Condé says there were "concerns" internally about Hunziker, which it has not detailed. Employees disagree.)
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Rachel Premack
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To add on to @Jezebel 's work here, I sent Conde and Rapoport a 1,000-word list of grievances from current and former employees. the only response that Rapoport had on the record was to make clear he was not wearing makeup in the 2013 Halloween photo.
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Rachel Premack
3 years
Thank you to @replyall , @sruthiri , and her team for this astonishing and sobering dive into Bon Appétit. (With 40+ interviews!) The first of four installments takes us back to 2010, when BA was morphing into the food mag for "stylish white wealth":
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Rachel Premack
4 years
This is not true. Truck drivers have to depend on commercial facilities for things that you and I can do at home — shower, eat, use the toilet, and drink water Social distancing is not an option for America’s 1.8 million truckers
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Trump says truck drivers should be fine if they're alone in their cab all day. He adds, "I know a lot about trucks."
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4 years
It’s four times as expensive to deliver a package to a home in rural America than one in the city. That’s why Amazon makes the USPS do most if its rural deliveries — and keeps all of the high-margin urban orders to itself.
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Fine dining is my passion
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I'm sick of having to enter my password... websites should let go of their distrust and make space for acceptance
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Rachel Premack
4 years
Matt Hunziker, the Bon Appétit video editor who was suspended in June, is back at work following tweets that critiqued Condé Nast's treatment of POC staffers. Employees say they're now scared to speak out: "I don't want to work in a place like that"
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5 years
"We're staying up all night and then flying over your house the next day." I spent the past few months talking to the pilots who fly your Amazon Air packages. Here's what they told me about the culture of overwork and underpay:
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Rachel Premack
2 years
Today is my first day @FreightWaves ! Say hello at rpremack @freightwaves .com and look out for my first MODES this week
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Rachel Premack
4 years
I end many of my stories "Are you a truck driver? Email rpremack @businessinsider .com" with the hopes that drivers will email me a treatise on their opinions of the industry. But usually this just happens.
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Rachel Premack
3 years
Sad men in media are always very upset by the existence of young women in their workplace
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Brian Morrissey
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@mgrillo87 I bet Insider has more people named a version of Kayleigh than people over 50. That’s not great representation for those who didn’t die young.
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Rachel Premack
7 years
. @TheBuffaloNews this is not merely "a stunt." Don't lessen genocide and understate racism.
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Rachel Premack
11 months
@JakeSwearingen ill take it
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Rachel Premack
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TRUCKING'S TOXIC CYCLE Evidence for a driver shortage is scant, but the industry is obsessed with training and recruiting more — rather than figuring out how to *retain* existing table It has implications for public safety, spending, etc. My article:
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