This article couldn’t have come at a better time. I’ve started saving for a down payment on a house and I’m super scared of being burned by what I don’t know about the process. Looks like I’ve got some homework to do.

The mute button has saved my ass countless times.

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,…

Exactly! He’s the perfect man. And I’d even be good with the bringing dead people to life thing if it meant I got to hang out with Emerson Cod.

It’s interesting and I wonder if it’s a lady boss thing to some degree (of course, it could just be an “asshole boss” thing as well). None of the male bosses I have ever had have ever expected me to work until 10pm - and they themselves were usually flying out the door at 5pm on the dot.

Point #4 all day long ... it cannot be emphasized enough. No matter how bad you are at your job, if the boss is springing surprises on you in the review, he/she is not very good at his/her job.

I had my annual review with my supervisor today. The most interesting tidbit was my supervisor told me that his manger expressed the desire that I work longer hours. That is not something I can do. I have responsibilities at home with a handicapped wife, her handicapped parents and their 99 year old grandmother.

His brother actually played his clone or twin or whatever on Dollhouse back in the day. I may have to check this out — that’s kind of creepy/hilarious.

He's so adorable. And he's a war hero, which is clearly Peggy's type ;). Maybe I'm coming around to it...

Same. And believe it or not, he’s a twin. THERE IS ANOTHER PERSON WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIM IN THE WORLD. Double sigh.

I’m not anti-LL Bean. I’m not even really against Lily Pullitzer or Tiffany’s (though I genuinely hate those TB flats specifically because I loathe branding disguised as “design”). But if I could drop two or three grand in a single online shopping spree, I’d be looking for really high quality and unique things. Like a…

And the flip side of the coin: Rich people fetishizing “normcore” or poverty. Because they’re bored and snuffling around looking for some new random thing to obsess over/ruin for actual low income people.

Actually no— she’s not an unattractive woman, she’s pretty young and has good skin and a nice face and all. She’s not super pretty, or anything, but she dresses in serious frump-style. She literally looks like she put on someone’s old couch. Which is whatever, but if you’re going to get judgy about other people trying…

She'd sue the train company if she survived.

Last year my boss took some of my tasks and contracted a freelance professional to do them. I was really hurt. I thought, "I am challenging him too much and he is going to bring in a Yes Man." I really second guessed myself. My boss started off saying it was a matter of my lack of professional training in regards to…

Anyone who has ever sat in a classroom/meeting/whatever and made a point, been told it's not exactly right, only to hear a man in the room repeat THE EXACT SAME POINT in slightly different words, and be told he's a visionary, has experienced the rage. It more or less sums up like 50% of graduate seminars, and no doubt…

Yes! I'm in an apt that was a duplex house built in like the 1890s. So I have a walk-in closet, except I'm not sure that's what it actually was. Walk-in pantry? It's off what must have been the dining room, and it has a built-in 3-drawer dresser. It's underneath the back stairway up to the second floor (which is…

I already have my ticket for opening night!

Criss, at 28, will be the youngest actor to play the role yet.

That's the main reason I'd return the cash. Not because BK needs it but because I wouldn't want an employee who needs the job to lose it.