Florida is built to deal with tropical storms because we get them all the time. You are right that if Sandy had hit Florida it probably wouldn't have had the same level of damage.

I respect students who show up and know their shit. I don't care how they are dressed or look. Someone can come in a professional outfit and spend the entire class on facebook. Someone else can be in sweats and actually read the material. A lot of slackers have learned that as long as they look the part they can fool…

The BSA is different from a university since there is a contractual relationship between the school and students, but not between scouts and the organization. This is a breech of contract suit, really. The plaintiff says that his contract with the school says that he can only be expelled if a certain type of hearing…

This isn't child abuse. It's just dumb. But an amusing type of dumb because it is the type of thing that took enough time that you'd think that she'd realize how dumb it was before going through with it.

My grandfather was told that our family came from Luxembourg. That was what he told us. It is what I always believed. Then my Aunt starts doing the family tree thing and finds out that we are German. I doubt my grandfather knew. The family came over around WWI and before he was born. He was raised with the lie and…

Oh, don't you know, we aren't incels. I actually tried to join a message board for "forever alone" people a few years ago and was told that because I'm a woman I could not be an incel because if anyone wanted to fuck me (even if it was someone I wasn't attracted to) then I wasn't really involuntarily celibate, I was…

They have it in my Chili's but they asked us not to use it (my social anxiety loves the idea of no human interaction) because it doesn't work well yet.

I'm not going to kink shame anyone. Whatever works for them. But I did have to once have something put in my urethra as part of a medical procedure (cytoscopy) and it was the most painful experience I ever had. I did it without any aesthetic because my doctor said that it wasn't any big deal. And going in wasn't that…

Sometimes I'm sad that I'm single. But if my options are single or in a relationship with a guy who was like the guy on this list it isn't even a close decision. (Of course the best case would be in a relationship with a guy not like the one on this list but until that guy comes along, it's better to be single than…

In the world of the books it makes sense. The Hunger Games didn't start as entertainment but as punishment for the attempted revolution by the 12 districts. The Capitol doesn't send children to participate. The annual ceremony is a reminder that it is pointless to ever try and fight against the system because the…

In order to make a discrimination claim you either have to show that you were subject to an adverse employment action which was motivated by discrimination or hostile work environment. Ames went with the adverse employment action claim because they didn't feel they had enough evidence for hostile work environment. So…

Because this is a constructive termination case instead of a firing, she had to give the company a chance to repair the intolerable conditions. I was unclear in my original posting about why she needed to talk to HR (I mostly blame it being very late when I wrote that but reading it over I see the confusion). If she…

You're right under most cases. And if the supervisor had fired her and told her to go home that might have made a difference. But in this case the plaintiff was arguing that the supervisor's actions were a constructive discharge. And in cases on constructive discharge you need to give the employer the opportunity to…

If the resignation was under duress it isn't necessarily binding. It's possible that if HR/corporate knew about what this supervisor had done they would have reversed everything and fired the supervisor for disregarding policies.

What makes it even worse is that "lawyer professional" tends to be things that look terrible on busty/plus-sized women. Pencil skirt, hose, heels, button up white shirt (which are always so much fun to find since it needs to be fitted and yet not pop open at the buttons) and a suit jacket. Make sure the suit jacket is…

I went into an interview in a black skirt suit with a purple shirt. I was told that they only hired people who wore white shirts. I said that was fine because I only wanted to work someplace that cared about work quality over fashion choices. (The firm, which was fairly large, is now out of business)

Here's the problem: she wasn't suing her supervisor. She was suing Nationwide. In order for the case to succeed she needed to show that Nationwide knew about the problem and had not done anything to try and resolve it. If this was a smaller business where the supervisor was also the owner/operator then this case…

There is a more practical reason for over-diagnosis of children. Kids who are able to get a medical diagnosis will qualify for services through the public schools that they wouldn't have access to otherwise. So, if you're a doctor and you have a kid in front of you who has some of the symptoms of autism, but could…

Brooklyn 99 is amazing. Great diverse cast AND they use the diversity in a way that it is part of the characters and not just a joke. In the first episode (spoilers) we learn that the Capt. (played by Andre Braugher) is gay and his sexual orientation caused him to be looked over for promotion for decades. This gives a…

My last two relationships ended when the guys told me that they didn't want to be with someone who didn't need them. One of these guys was upset when I saw a movie, that he didn't want to see, by myself. The fact that a single woman could go see a movie alone (or go to eat alone, or go to a restaurant alone) shocked…