Priyanka Shah

@DanielDenvir @KeeangaYamahtta The role, or lack, of white feminism in an election so centered around abortion rights.

Prepping for my debriefing the situation Dig interview with @KeeangaYamahtta tomorrow. What should I ask her?

@DanielDenvir nytimes.com/2024/11/02/mag…

Relatedly: what are the smartest and most helpful analyses you're reading? Both those written in the election's aftermath and those published in the lead up?

@kunal_gupta01 Explain why he shouldn't have taken a higher paying offer? Did you try to match it?

A senior candidate who was supposed to start next week just backed out 😑 We spent significant time, energy, resources hiring him. Even incurred sizeable expenses on his travel stay etc. Waited for him for 2 months, team was in constant touch and was giving him downloads. Never gave a hint that he’s exploring further. Backed out today for a higher pay. What should you do as a company? Not the 1st time but this one really hurts. Efforts gone but should we atleast recover the expenses company incurred? What would you do?

@amitvarma It looks like Amazon has reached out to you but if you need further assistance Elliott Advocacy might be worth looking into. (The NYTimes used to have a consumer advocacy column called the Haggler which seems to have been discontinued a years ago) elliottadvocacy.org

@samanth_s in this sense the process is a great equalizer. Regardless of wealth or local lineage,we are all post-colonial subjects and they remind us of that status constantly.

@samanth_s I understand you're not asking for difficult individual VFS experiences from the applicants side, they are legion, but if interested, I had the most difficult experience I have ever had in 20 years of applying for Schengen visas, directly at the Belgian consulate in New York.

I’ve tweeted this in the past, but it’s a good time to do it again. If there are any former / current VFS employees out there and want to talk to me — DM me! A story is long overdue. (Frustrated Indians + others: RT to spread this tweet pls, so I reach a whistleblower or two.)

@samanth_s The VFS and the Schengen countries have a obvious profit-generating interest in keeping this visa regime alive. Even a 20-30 year travel record with no violations makes no difference to the credibility of the applicant.

@samanth_s They also questioned why I had been granted a longer visa by the French in the past and created many more unnecessary hurdles and kept my old passport with them. Happy to talk if useful to your story.

@samanth_s They asked for a letter from my employer approving remote work beyond the dates that I was traveling in Europe. They also asked for my American companion's pay stubs and letter from employer. Absolute overreach as Americans do not need short term visas. Total racist nightmare.

@samanth_s They made me return 3 times with more attestations and paperwork, I finally submitted a breakdown in hours of how much time I would spend in Belgium and Switzerland showing I would be longer in Belgium.

@ytheory1 Could that talk be made available as public service?

@JoceCreative @TadCarpenter If you are pulling this off as an employee please tell all of us how. Please.

Design is easy. You just write 100 emails a day, attend 6 or 7 meetings and then start designing at 4:45pm.

The NYS WARN Act was passed in Feb 2009. Companies with over 50 employees must give 90 days notice if laying off more than 25 people or 1/3rd of the workforce. Do you know of mass layoffs in architecture post-2009 that gave any warning? @arch_workers_u @Arch_Lobby

@paulnovosad Well Done Abba

What are the best movies about development economics?

@LakridsbyBulow when the description says dulce chocolate does that mean regular brown chocolate and not white chocolate?

@jejebr5 So incredibly proud of you!!!

So proud of my colleagues and boss for coming together to establish the first union in an architecture firm

@shannonmattern "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

@DanielDenvir Pankaj Mishra and Adam Tooze

Ok so who do I do an Age of Empire interview with?

@DanielDenvir To End All Wars, Adam Hochschild. It focuses on Great Britain and isn't comprehensive in the way you're asking, but interesting as a sort of history of dissenters to the war.

What’s the best comprehensive book on the history of everything that led up to World War I? Preferably but not necessarily by a living author.

@ThandiLoewenson Work Won't Love You Back - Sarah Jaffe hurstpublishers.com/book/work-wont…