I’m not one to judge someone who would give a disgusting, fat, orange blob a blowjob, but this makes no sense -

I have been there, it is awful. I quit a job right before my son was born because with daycare costs I would have been working full time and only bringing home like 500 dollars as the rest would go straight to daycare. I found a part-time night job six weeks later that allowed me to stay home with kids during the day…

I think some people just can’t get past that stupid American workaholic, self-destructive impulse. I’ve had bosses like that. My all-time idols were two higher-ups who kept calendars of all their vacation days and sick time (my company specifically calls it that rather than just personal time) and made sure to take…

Ha! Like they want us over there.

Which is a perfect example of why all of us (married or not, with kids or without) should be pushing for things like universal paid family leave - because this shit should be automatic, not contingent on having coworkers who both care enough and have the time to spare.

You say selfish bitch (like it’s a bad thing), I say we have healthy boundaries.

This. We all make life choices, and I have already given plenty of time to people with children. They can’t have my vacation time too. Now, I would certainly give some of my time to someone who is taking care of a kid with cancer. But I’m not giving it up simply because someone made the choice to have a child. Not…

Honestly, you cannae put a price tag on that.

This is one of the reasons I might never quit my job. It’s kind of boring and a bit of career dead end, but I’ve been sick with the cold from hell (and then a UTI, because coughing to the point of wanting to throw up wasn’t enough apparently), and I’ve been just working from home without really any issues. My boss…

Yeah, this is nice but no.  I’m not giving my vacation time to someone else.  Mostly because I’ve spent a lot of money and energy celebrating other people’s marriages and kids and will never get any of that back since I’m perpetually single and have no interest in having children at all.  Yes, I’m a selfish bitch and…

Clearly, she is not lucky, and neither are you. This system is trash.
It’s like when people get mad at the idea of a fast food worker earning $15/hour because that’s about what they earn and they have a “professional” job/went to college. We should all be demanding more. There’s plenty of money to go around.

I don’t see why you’d diss a long-standing American tradition started by a patriotic company like Walmart.

I live in Sweden. We get 480 days of paid leave per child. All pre- and postnatal care is free, health care, dental care, prescription medication and in most places, glasses, are free until you turn 18. Daycare is subsidized and based on income, so you never pay more than 3% of your income for the first child, 2% for…

100% right. 82k is brutal....to live in a desirable neighborhood in brooklyn, manhattan, or waterfront Long Island City. It’s still double what the average person in NYC actually makes, and well above the average household income . It’s just when people talk about living in NY, they leave out 2/3 of the city

I work at a non-profit in the city and myself and many of my coworkers make less than 50K, so I will be honest and say I am baffled by the fact that an intern far outstrips me in salary. I don’t know that I know many people my age who make as much as this girl and I am significantly older than her. I survive fine in…

All of this! Even in these comments I’m seeing a lot of “My parents help me, but....”. BUT count your blessings because there are people out there who are up to their eyeballs in student debt. BUT people who aren’t being monetarily subsidized have had to go without basic necessities to even get to a point where they…

I understand that.

Thanks for this. The irony that an internet comment could produce a much more realistic portrait of her finances than the diary entry that provided the info to do so is probably the clearest indication that they failed in their mission

Just crunching the numbers, this woman has a gross income of at least $82,500.

A paid internship that Pays 25/hr?