I found just getting up and leaving also worked. Look, I’m the damn secretary, I don’t know anything about your situation. No, I can’t go get the principal. No, I can’t call him, he’s off campus. No, I WON’T CALL HIM BECAUSE HIS MOTHER IS DYING AND I’M LEAVING NOW BEFORE I CUSS YOU OUT!

Ha! When I was a teacher I was a MAGNET for asshole parents. It’s also been a problem in any customer service job I’ve ever worked, and has even become a running joke in my current workplace.

I bet she’s happy. Those child support checks she’ll be gunning for mean so much to unemployed, C-list actresses.

I always feel there are some important details missing in the stories about Kelly. Something the judge is considering in his decision but we don’t know.

I am a woman, highly intelligent, very hard working... I’m the employee who says to her boss, “No, it’s NOT okay that I was late. It’s the second time in a month, and while I appreciate that you want to let it slide because of how good of a job I do, please don’t let it slide again, promise me that the next time it…

That was television. That didn’t really happen. People were pretty much as they are now.

I’m honest about what I will and what I won’t do at work, and I have the somewhat career suicidal tendency to be immune to intimidation. I’m not a negotiator, and I’ve stymied a lot of people who find my solution a starting point. I will be understanding, and I will be polite and I do care about doing the right thing,…

When we were in Monaco, we visited one of the yacht clubs. They had about a dozen little kids out on the water in tiny sail boats for sailing lessons that day. It was both adorable and unbelievable.

Have you ever heard the term “indigo children”? It is my absolute favorite thing to hate.

Isn’t it amazing? You try to be nice and they just get worse and worse. Then you say “Get out of my face with your bullshit,” and they smile and shrug and they’re ok after that. The problem is that idea takes FOREVER to occur to me.

He didn’t exactly book to another country voluntarily. When she was pregnant with their daughter she filed for divorce (I believe he didn’t even know the child had been born for a bit), her legal team leaked that he was allegedly involved in shady business dealings (which wasn’t a problem until it was time to divorce)…

If it was me I’d rather live in Monaco with my dad than the US with my mom, but this is not about the kids. It’s about the parents trying to “win” because of spite.

I agree totally and I wish the author wouldn’t have twisted the story to make her look like a poor mother having lost her children to her horrible ex.

Diplomacy doesn’t work with pushy people anyway - they never seem to get the hint. Bluntness with those people is the only way to go.

A sunny place for shady people.

Those poor kids.

Oh, honey, you only THINK you know passive-aggressive.

When I did estimating, I had a special PITA charge. I’d just add it into some other category, but believe me, it was there.

I don’t think this applies to just the work environment, this is life ladder crap, too.

After being forced to deal with more and more asshole parents over the years, the school I teach at has started to flag them in our files and computer systems. If a parent is flagged as rude or aggressive, we never meet with them alone (which they HATE, makes us harder to intimidate). In my life in general I’ve found…