I hear your frustration but... For an organization to have top leadership to run it well and effectively it needs to entice people his high-level skills to work there. Part of how you do that is with offering a competing salary.

I don’t know, in this day and age they might get shot at by someone “standing their ground” if they go door to door.

Please take your crotchety old hag self and stand outside in a snowstorm for 2-3 hours, smiling and being pleasant the entire time. This is what Scouts have to deal with in many parts of the country because Cookie Season is during winter. Walking is not only impractical, but dangerous, because people don’t clear their…

Just noting that most of the money from cookie sales goes to the local council.

THIS!!! GSUSA is doing everything right that the BSA was doing wrong.

Weasley and they’re a family of garbage people.

GSUSA is such an incredibly inclusive organization. But GSUSA needs donations, so if you find it worthy, please do.

Your opinions? Both of them?

I’ll gladly pay the $5. I’d happily pay $7 per box for what they’ve meant to my daughter.

Now that I am in the business of selling Girl Guide cookies (Canadian scout-type thing), I say this just makes sense from the making of change perspective. Ours are 5 bucks and we didn’t have to hand out any change outside of the Walmart. Cute kids make it easy to sucker the people with tens and twenties into extra…

Then how do NFL defenses get so good if they are pulling from college players who play against college style offenses in college? Couldn’t a “good” NFL coach figure out how to make a college offense actually work in the NFL.

If all the QBs coming out are used to playing a college style offense, then why don’t NFL coaches play an upgraded version of a college style offense?

Oh god, what do you want to know? I have dozens of stories from 27 years as a direct care cancer nurse.rather,, I want to make a plea for minimum staffing levels and maximum patient to nurse ratios in direct care environments. Nothing is worse than being handed yet another patient or getting handed mandatory overtime…

Ugh, as the daughter of a teacher I can feel for your mom. My mom was a special ed teacher for many, many years. Before that she taught Head Start in rural WA, before that taught on the rez in AZ, and before that started her career working in inner city Detroit in the 1960’s (your mom and mine can keep each other…

because the moment I picked up a baby, it took a giant dump

I posted this on Kitchenette but want to share here then I will step aside and others can share.

My mom is a nurse, and she went to nursing school way back when it was half academic courses, half being terrified by older, angry nurses and scrubbing bed pans in an actual hospital.

Depends. It’s like when little kids cry. Genuinely sad cry? I feel bad. Trying to whip up a batch of tears and manipulate me? Go fly a kite. If your day has gone to shit, and you’re trying not to cry I’m sympathetic. If you’re trying to cry because it’s always gotten people to bend to your will before. You’re getting…

The airline I worked for gave us a fair amount of leeway in our ability to make things right for people.

Yeah, pre-9/11 doesn’t count. Pre-9/11 flying was like catching a bus. You could pretty much get on the flight as long as it hadn’t pulled out of the gate and security was about the same as riding a bus. I actually was on a pre-9/11 flight where they held it for a few minutes waiting on a couple that was just getting…