Yeah, same here. I can't stand the crippling pain of ovarian cysts bursting every month, so, the pill it is.

but no US citizen has ever committed a crime, committed identity theft, used the ER as their primary care doctor?

WHAT OMG.

I'm in my last year of my PhD and my advice is: don't go somewhere where you'll be the only person in your specialty. I'm the only PhD student in my sub-discipline (everyone else is masters students) and it's so isolating. The upside is I get massive amounts of teaching experience, but it's lonely, there's no one to…

Unless the child is actually being abused or neglected (in which case PLEASE speak up), do not fucking do this. CPS workers are horribly overworked and hardly have time for the legit cases they get. They do not need you wasting their time with nonsense. Any time they spend following up on this shit takes away from…

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and carpet in the bathroom where it's humid? eww

because MURICA!!!! FREEDOM!!!! or something.

Probably did it on purpose, thinking that if she embarrassed the pumper enough she'd quit that "nonsense" and "get back to work". (have heard both those phrases before)

Yeah, our school got duty free lunch SOMETIMES, depending on our principal. When we had a reasonable principal, we had a system where those of us without homerooms (art/music/PE/etc teachers, grade level aides) would supervise the caf while the homeroom teachers ate in the lounge. But then a couple things happened: we…

Every waitress job I ever had never let me take a break. You were constantly getting new tables so once your shift started, no peeing or meal breaks for you.

I'm in grad school for music and one of my fellow students had a new baby just as she was starting her program. We grad students all had shared offices so that didn't really work for pumping, and once I heard her pumping in the bathroom—but then they gave her a key to the green room (a green room is a small room right…

I taught for 14 years, and I had a baby (and pumped) as did several of my coworkers. Ways we made it work:

I guarantee you there will be no moldy leftover bottles of breastmilk in that fridge. It's such a pain in the ass to pump, no parent would ever waste a drop.

ah yes, it's getting ALL OVER your food and contaminating it. it's not in sealed containers or anything.

BABY HALLWAY

but I like freesia :/

As a doctor, you should be aware that there are doctors who will not write "sick notes". For example, the student health center at the R1 university where I'm a graduate student will not write sick notes at all. Not for employers, not for professors. The doctor I went to before I came here charged an extra fee on top…

Oh yeah, when I was a teacher we "got" sick days but I had a principal who would yell at us if we ever needed to call out sick. Nevermind that we were at a school were a lot of the parents worked jobs where THEY weren't allowed to take sick days either, so they would send their sick kids to school (and those poor…

When I was an elementary teacher I once had a principal who, when a kindergarten teacher told her she would be out for 6 weeks starting in February due to a hysterectomy (she had all kinds of bad shit going on), the principal said, "can't you do that over summer break instead?" cause yeah, she can totally WAIT with a…