I don’t want to speak for all plus size folk, but why the hell is it so hard to find an adorable cardigan with extra room for my girthy (upper) arms?!

I had to live on the border of PGH and Wilkinsburg to be able to afford to live alone. I had looked at apartments in Lawrenceville when I was first moving to the area but I knew, with how high the rent was starting to get there and Bloomfield (where I also looked), I would be priced out the next year. It was…

I only worked in PGH/for ModCloth briefly but, while I truly enjoyed my time there, I am sooo glad I’m missing this transition and I wish you the best of luck. That truly sucks that you’ve had to wait at all for your paycheck, especially that long.

In 2013 I was making 28K a year and lived somewhat comfortably in a one bedroom in the Bellevue/Avalon area, where my rent was slightly above $500 a month. I did look at a studio that was $395 a month, and Bellevue is about 10 minutes north from downtown (and really nice!). I’m not sure about what it is now, but if…

But she’s actually the one who failed the company when she took on $20M of debt. That basically dug the hole they couldn’t get out of and, when the investors tried one last try two years later, thought better than to keep the people who got them in the mess to try and get them out of it.

It’s almost like none of the people running these companies have ever seen Office Space.

Maybe it’s a sincere statement written by someone who worked in their PR office and internalized the talking points.

This. Technically straight sizes should only be sized up to higher straight sizes i.e., a 6 to a 10 or 12. Above that you’re supposed to use a completely different pattern which means their pattern makers should have been using entirely different measurements. But that means more money so they just end up adding…

Right? That was a selling point on his resume? What?

Can anyone explain to me why every company with a web presence still feels the need to base themselves in San Francisco? Moving there in particular seems like a terrible idea. Pittsburgh is a small city, but it’s not as though you can’t attract tech talent there. Google and Uber seem to be having good luck, and the…

The writing’s kind of been on the wall for them for a while; they have already enjoyed a rep in SF as a company behaving like every other shitty startup here so the stuff about the anti-gravity chair is absolutely not a surprise to me whatsoever.

There is an easily chartable pattern with startups and you can more or…

I love that show. I’ve learned a lot from it.

Oh the privilege to travel and write a book about your 1st world problems :/

I got to the part where I saw the current CEO came from Urban Outfitters and my brain went “Welp this is all we need to know about why it sucks now”.

Yeah THAT’S her take on the whole mess- that people were mean about her online. Not the job losses or the massive creep CEO

Repeat after me, all retailers— if you’re grading up straight sizes to plus sizes, THEY WILL NOT FIT. Plus sizes require different fit models. No wonder the ModCloth line didn’t succeed— it’s nice that they want to say things go from XXS- 4X, but that means you need to change the style and fit from 1X- 4X, and it…

Workers can (and absolutely should) discuss salary without retribution, but a spokesperson for a private company is under no obligation to reveal the compensation their employees recieve.

*I am still waiting for my last paycheck that I should have received on 3/23.

I worked at ModCloth in Pittsburgh until 3/2017, the week before the Wal Mart buy out. I’m guessing I didn’t get onto Wal Mart’s payroll in time to actually get paid.

“In a response via email, a ModCloth spokesperson said: “I am not able to comment on specific $$, but I can say that our wages are in line with similar wages for similar positions in the Pittsburgh area.”