Being a parent can be ultra competitive. The Pre-K I want to send my child to all but requires me to stay home with her at all times, trying to cram concepts into her tiny head that she cannot yet grasp. She is a bit over one year old. She needs to be counting and know more than a dozen sight words by three. Colors,…

After reading the rest of your replies on this thread, I notice that you work at a staffing company. While that explains much, since staffing companies are not filling the same types of positions as dedicated in-house HR professionals, it also makes me a bit sad for the people who think that they are doing the best…

I have a resume built by someone professionally trained to do that, because it was part of the tuition I paid back in college. However, I took it upon myself when I had a direct position hiring people to be aware of what these people were being advised to send to me. Being actively compassionate and connected to…

Two thoughts:
1. I've seen several major career-building sites advise that long periods of unemployment be handled in exactly this manner, with skills learned during that time mentioned briefly, because otherwise it looks like you were just not working.
2. As a former hiring manager, well before I had a child, I…

Right?
Also: If I decided one day that I have quite had it with baking, I can go back to healthcare. I could train for a new career. I could do anything!
My child is with me through any career change, with bloodied knees and muddy shoes on the carpet and dirty clothes that have to be washed because she won't wear…

I want to hire him to babysit, so that maybe my toddler will go to bed? Because it is midnight, and she woke up at 6 am, and napped for literally twenty minutes, and I am exhausted?

How about nuts? Jeeze, getting kicked out of schools, being fought into corners by Epi-Pen wielding masses. Who will stand up for those?
I jest, but only as much as I can with two fingers not wanting to change position to type.

Really, we should just call them out when they are doing it at all, regardless of why. I won't separate it, personally, because it falls in with everything else under the category of "not their business anyways".
I've been the side-eyed chick, despite being there for a love of the game. I've been the one that was told…

You have Hobbit Feet too?! Hi! Let's talk foot shaving. Hell, let's talk razor (edited to fix autocorrect here) slipping across the bridge of your foot while shaving, and not being able to wear anything BUT flip flops for a week. Checking toes before putting on strappy sandals. Shaving your feet literally every time…

Feet are fucking disgusting. Especially after flip flops.
Flip flops are my chosen form of shoe about 50% of the time. The rest of the time, I generally wear 5-7 inch heels, which means that my toenails are super super super short, and my toes are battered enough to qualify as KFC product. One is shaped like a club,…

At what point does feminism mean that my body is not an object for public consumption by anyone, including feminists, and that I can wear what I like, what I feel makes me look good to my own preferences, and everyone else can fuck off?

Because i am ready for that part of feminism! The part where I am literally not…

My father almost named me this, then changed it literally the night before I was born. I am very thankful for this change, as I have never thought that I would make a very good "Chastity" at all. And I am poly. And bi.
Not a good Chastity.

But we can't, because even though you and I realize that they are models, it is part of the thought process of "the women at cons are faking it". They deserve to do whatever pays their rent, IMO, but it is one of the contentions of the "WOMEN HERE ARE SO FAKE" group. That does not mean that it is a logical or fair…

I didn't say it was, just that it contributes to the weird philosophy that there are hordes of women roaming cons who are not "real" geeks. If you read back through my post, you should be able to discern that there is only one instance in which I feel like someone is being dishonest with their intentions, and that is…

Well, you can argue that "booth babes" are more likely to be "fake geeks", in that they are generally professional talent hired by vendors to attract male customers, without any prior knowledge of the product or target audience. That is ultra annoying.
There is also the issue that in any group, anywhere, with any…

Shit, my kid arm slept 90% of her infant sleeps. Can I maybe gently take her out of the Moby so my back can recover for 15 seconds? Nope. Mommy Elbow, maybe she can just be repositio-nope-d. Man, I really need to sign this, but she is in my writing hand, I will just hand her to NOPE. It was the all mommy, all the time…

Whoa, wait. I had Ellie run up to the wrong area (past me) and get seen multiple times. We are talking 'replay the scenario' catastrophic stealth breaks.
The other adult characters seem to stealth into oblivion (WTF, Henry, do you just cease to exist?) but Ellie was almost as broken as the Silent Hill lame-duck…

You missed a word.
She never asked for this shit.

Or walk close to one, or the light shifted, or she realized there was a new dawn coming.
I swear she just walking around saying "SHIT!" for most of the game. That was my #2 gripe about the game, right after #1: Ellie always gets in the worst possible spots and screws up the stealth. It could only have been worse if…

When I lived in Louisiana (prior to last week, so pretty recent) employers would commonly write up clauses & require employees to sign agreement, in which the clauses attempted to override existing laws.
Every single time it went to bat, the clause was thrown out AND the company was pretty much automatically…