I kind of love both Rowan Blanchard and girl meets world.

I had a high school science teacher who had a brain aneurysm and died in front of the fifth grade class (I was in third). As an adult, I've always felt so so bad for those kids.

So I actually really really like weddings, so I’m looking forward to the next couple of years. But I’m right at the start of it, I’m sure it will be getting old soon enough.

I think it’s just a general trend away from diamonds. I have three friends who got engaged in the past month (why yes, I am in my mid twenties, how did you know?) and all of them had colored engagment rings, and it was each of their first engagments.

Which is my argument, but my coworkers totally lost their shit at me when they found out my disdain for that racist asshole.

I have so so so so so little patience for that shit, and luckily, I think my meter for it is tuned pretty fucking high, because I feel like 75% of my first dates go nowhere because I get that sense from the dude. They talk a lot about all the stuff they’re going to accomplish once they finish grad school/their phd.…

I remember being really dissappointed in Emma Watson’s attempt at an American accent when I saw the first preview for the Bling Ring, until I saw this clip and realized that’s just what she sounds like.

I doubt it's publicly available, and I'm not sure if a background check will show the info on your w-2s. But I don't think there's anything stopping your references from telling them, if they ask.

funnily enough, at least on a federal level, it’s not illegal to ask. It’s illegal to act on that information, therefore it’s a dumb thing to ask, since it will only give the interviewee ammunition in case of a discrimiation suite, but just asking the question isn’t illegal.

For the record, it’s illegal to ban you from talking with your coworkers about pay (I know you quit, they didn’t fire you, but I’m pretty sure they aren’t allowed to even discourage it).

Look Microsoft, having a “women in gaming” lunch is great! But you can’t use that as a sheild when you then make women incredibly uncomfortable in the spaces where a lot of networking connections are going to get made.

So I’m totally happy that you got paid even more than you initially thought, and for $5000 a year, I’d probably deal with it, but someone should really let your boss know that joking about compensation of all things isn’t particularly funny. I’m in a really relaxed workplace, and we all make jokes that probably…

right? Nurses and teachers are arguably some of the most important jobs out there.

I don’t know if you read ask a manager (you should! She’s awesome) but she’s a heavy advocate for not telling potential employers your current salary unless you 100% can’t avoid it. Even if the straight up ask “what is your current salary”, she says to just say “I’m looking for a salary in the range of xk-yk dollars”.…

Alison’s rants about basing future salary on past salary are my favorite things. Because if the position is worth 120k, it’s worth that much no matter how much the person was making in their previous job.

Look, on the one hand, I’m not going to nitpick. On the other hand, I don’t drink alcohol, and most of the time when I’m out to dinner, I’m drinking water. So you don’t get to look at my 20 dollar dinner, and say hey, all our meals were 20 bucks, lets split it evenly, when you also each spent 30 dollars on alcohol.

This is why the argument agaist the existence of pay inequality that suggests that people would be more inclined to hire women if they’re paid less, because it would save them money is so frustratingly wrong. People don’t just arbitrarily pay women less for fun, they do it because, consiciously or not, they think that…

Yeah, I went from a 2-bedroom, 650 square foot apartment down town to a 1400 square foot 4 bedroom house, with two living rooms. That house was eeeeeeempty when I moved in. But now I’ve been here 3 years, and I can pretty much never leave, certainly not for something smaller. I’m like a goldfish. I’ve very much grown…

Yeah, it sounds like your dad is rural, which means access is the biggest issue. I’ve been living in or near a city for the past 8 years. Even when I had a good job and a car, buying in bulk was tough, because I had a teeny tiny studio. And I had all sorts of fun furniture from ikea that had storage built in. It would…

Plus, even if you have access and money, if you don’t have storage, that’s another huge barrier. With less perishable stuff like diapers or paper towels, I suppose you can pile it up somewhere, but if you’ve got a couple with a child living in a one bedroom, there aren’t going to be many corners to stash things into.…