Sure - but what if they just gave you more PTO and you could do whatever you wanted with it. My old employer went as far as to relabel the bank “Vacation, Holiday, Sick”... because like someone said upthread - oh well I’m not “wasting” a vacation day staying home sick. Staying home with your kid may not be the most…

It’s such a hard thing... I think we would do better to find a way to separate out occasional cold and illness, and true medical leave. I was reading a local paper during a visit to some friends years ago and there was this whole thing about how the city government was looking to cut sick leave hours from firefighters…

I mean basically - it’s a set for a very particular brand of products. My friend is shooting a super low budget movie set in 70's and found this shithole hotel that is purposely kept frozen in time in 1972, such that at this point the owners make most of their money by letting people film there (for a fee). There is…

I got divorced after 12 year marriage and noodled with different App’s. I had really great success with Bumble. You have to be SUUUPPPEER chill and not get too invested in any one person because the whole process is somewhat chaotic... people match with you, but then don’t respond if you message, people message for…

This was my thought. Would’t the idea behind this be for the type of person who does a lot of dressy events they could have a different look for different events... but - 1) each “look” is basically the same and 2) most of the time you run in the same circles so it would sort of defeat the purpose because everyone…

This is one of the biggest issues I see with modern unions. I had a very similar experience working at a large hospital (I am not union and do not have the option). I came across numerous employees who I was stunned had somehow managed to keep a job. They were absolute idiots and incapable of retaining training/new…

I have friends in education in various roles, and absolutely the default approach by many of this administrators would be described as “do as little as possible and hope he moves to a different school or graduates ASAP.” I have a friend who works a private schools, and one of the students had a social media account…

I live in Los Angeles (as a conventionally attractive white woman), and I move through all parts the city from high-end to low-end without ever feeling threatened or like my safety is at risk. To be sure, there are neighborhoods that I know on average might be more dangerous, and I take care to mostly avoid them, but…

I am on the fence about this. Simply re-branding without substantive change is just smoke and mirrors and perhaps does not address some of the existing issues that will happen with any large, behemoth like WW. In addition, the “Wellness” industry is rife with scams, lies, poorly validated claims, etc...

My ex-husband was a version of this guy. I realized at one point (on my way to realizing I needed to divorce him) that he really only thought women were good for two things: fucking, and working for him. If he didn’t want to fuck you, and you didn’t admire him as the smartest person ever and want to work for him (despi…

Yeah the element you are missing is the Other Woman in some of these situations often has a strong desire to “win” and will do anything she has to do to get the Cheating Man to pay attention to her and possibly force his hand. It’s a version of “tell your wife or I will”.  I see this definitely as sort of pushing the…

I guess what is so shocking to me with these high profile organizations at this point is that they have not brought in a combo of a PR and Lawyer team and created essentially a standard operating procedure for a few of these scenarios. Like

I am straight - so my experience is with hetero males... but my experience with this issue is that guys who get so het up about the undies that their long term partner wears on a day-to-day basis are the types who are just mortally offended that we women don’t spend our whole day thinking about their boners. My…

This is the one of the stranger delusions for Trump to articulate. There is no way that his daughter was ever going to MARRY Tom Brady. As someone pointed out upthread - the timelines don’t really line up. Also - Brady could have the pick of basically any woman, literally in the world. There is no way he was settling…

This is such political theater. These guys are doing this just so they can have some red meat to throw at their constituents during the election. They can say they defended Trump and protected him to MAGA and all that stuff. I mean it’s such a glaring sound-bite grab for their ad campaigns in the fall that I’m almost…

I would be in favor for making some sort of amendment to these laws that specific facilities that have one of these assholes on staff has to put up a sign. The Asshole doesn’t have to state WHICH medications they object to (because I’m sure they would scream bloody murder about discrimination), and they couldn’t ask…

Man - I live in LA and there are so many people here who are moderately good at a hobby who seem convinced that they should have a career in photography/music/art/acting etc. And since you want to be nice... some guy plays you his latest studio demo, you don’t say “that is solidly mediocre.”... you just smile and say…

I mean this was very obviously a calculated move on his part to pick a fight with this paper to keep his name and this whole case in the news. Avenaetti has been a pretty steady drip of media bombs for the last 6 weeks or so. Maybe he didn’t have anything quite ready for prime time this week so he went with this.…

I feel like this is a place where the law is so far behind technology. Like how is there no way to have a documented series of 500 texts over 2 days and not have that be harassment. How hard is it to create a series of guidelines to follow: X number of texts in some period of time, two clear statements of “never…

This is me - If you are leading with your gun... well good on you but your top 5 priorities in life and my top 5 priorities in life are waaaayyy different and we are probably not a good match. No harm, no foul... but I’m at a firm no on that and I move on. I feel the same way about motorcycles. I don’t date people who…