That cat knows what’s up.

Everyone’s given really good advice already, but I’d just like to add that I think tempering her righteous confidence will come with maturity. That’s not to say you can’t talk to her about how it was great that she stood up for herself, but maybe next time she could do it without the name-calling; just to say that you…

On the other hand, my saint of a grandmother never described behavior as ugly. If a kid was being a brat, she would ask to feel his/her forehead to check for a fever because “you must be feeling bad if you’re behaving this way.”

The cocktail I made myself for having to deal with these little shits?

Twirling in a dress is one of life’s great joys. Good for you and that little boy.

The name choosing thing, tho: couldn’t you just pick two? I’m old enough that parents who weren’t carrying sex-linked genetic abnormalities didn’t find out the baby’s gender in utero as a matter of course, and everyone just picked out such and such if it was a girl, so and so if it was a boy. My parents picked what…

My dad kept a daily journal during my second year of life, and gave me a copy when I left for college. It was incredibly sweet. Anyway, one of the entries described a day we spent at the pool, during which I learned how to jump off the edge into my dad’s arms, and of course wanted to do nothing else the entire day,…

Yeah, it looks like the Satanic Temple is a relatively new group that’s really just a bunch of activists testing the constitutionality of religiously-motivated laws. So, kind of like the ACLU, but generating more clickbait-worthy headlines. All the more reason to send them money.

Your cat is adorable. He looks like he got into some chocolate ;)

Not sufficiently derogatory. How do you say “white trash” in French?

Yeah, that and their A+ trolling in Oklahoma have me going “here! Take all my money! Lead me to the promised land!”

I am really digging the Satanists these days. I’ve been a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for years now, but I’m considering converting.

Her explanation or whatever it was annoyed me so much more than the plagiarism itself. Oh, it was just your own personal code of ethics you violated? You think it would be “helpful” for us to ask ourselves why you did it? Fuck you.

Wow, that sounds really inefficient. We were scheduled in a way that determined the order of who was cut, even if it couldn’t be predicted exactly what time that would happen.

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

This happened to me too. I am now following myself—got my own check mark and everything—and I have no idea how to fix it.

I’m not sure what you mean. Scheduling and payroll are usually separate programs. We would schedule someone for fewer than 40 hours per week, not allow them to pick up additional shifts that would put them over 40 hours, and if they had to stay late one night and they were already scheduled for close to 40 hours, we’d…

You don’t have to hire a lawyer to file a claim with the Dept. of Labor or your state’s equivalent. They’ll investigate the case and take whatever action they deem appropriate for wage and hour law violations without you having to pay anything. The bad news is this can take a long time, and it can be a very…

I completely agree with all your points. However, with respect to Katy Perry specifically, she’s a California resident, and California is one of those states where you can easily vote absentee. So for her to not have even done that is super lame.

I’ve had enough of the negativity