Here's the water cooler gossip you may have missed this week.
Man moves to San Francisco, pays $400 a month to sleep in wooden box in friends’ living room, washingtonpost.com
By now, the high price of rent in and around San Francisco has become at once a familiar lament and an easy punchline. In 2014, BuzzFeed highlighted nine private islands that cost less than an apartment in the California tech capital; a year later, a local website found the same of five castles. Along with the cheeky comparisons came clever workarounds: a backyard tent in Mountain View, a garage in Palo Alto, a refurbished FedEx van at San Francisco University. Read more...
California reaches deal on $15 minimum wage, usatoday.com
A deal to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 was reached Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators, making the nation's largest state the first to lift base earnings to that level and propelling a campaign to lift the pay floor nationally. Read more...
Super Bowl 50 Statue For Sale, Seller Suggests Someone Buy It And Burn It, sfist.com
Ah, the Super Bowl 50 statues. Those huge metal 50's placed around San Francisco earlier this year marking the forthcoming Super Bowl 50 were enjoyed by many a San Franciscan, although not in the manner intended by the National Football League.
As you surely remember, the statues were repeatedly, gleefully vandalized by people who, clearly, resented the corporate advertising in city parks. Well, the largest one of those statues is now for sale, the one that sat down at the foot of the Embarcadero, and according to the Chronicle the man selling it suggests someone buy it and burn it in effigy. Read more...
"You're saying that I can't have a hair style because of your culture? Why?" the man said.
"Because it's my culture," she said.
California woman facing eviction sets herself on fire, sfchronicle.com
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A woman facing eviction from her Santa Rosa apartment poured gasoline over her body and set herself on fire in a blaze that nearly killed her and almost destroyed the four-unit property where she lived, fire officials said Monday. Fire investigator Cyndi Foreman said Melissa McMullin, 44, doused herself in gasoline, lay down on her bed and flicked a lighter igniting the Sunday evening blaze, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported. Read more...
