Haha. I faceplanted into the street once trying to chase after two bill skippers. College guys, I had already gone out once to confront them, and they lied and told me they'd left cash on the table. Of course, it was a $10 for a $40+ bill. Second time out, I was so pissed that I missed the last step before the…

I won't go on about the wage thing, that's been pointed out repeatedly... but I will say, I have worked many, many shitty minimum wage jobs, and absolutely none of them were as stressful and difficult as waiting tables. It's more than just customer service. It's also serious physical labor, dealing with maintenance…

Oh yay.. "Off to the US there's a men's rights activist is in MY diet sliced up"

And... "Music starts at the foot of a year of high fives, America!! ZING!!!"

Oh man, one more... "better find something god i hate you."

"better find a copy of sharktopus won't be"

Agreed. Tangentially, my boss is a woman, the first female manager of any kind in over a year, and the first female GM we've had in quite a few years (I work in a restaurant). She came in, overhauled a bunch of stuff, made everything much more efficient. Doesn't take shit, doesn't worry about being liked, etc. She…

Finally, a colorful dress that doesn't make you fret about sweat stains!

Agreed. My first time, it was legally statutory rape. I was 14. as far as I knew my boyfriend was 22 but as I found out later was probably more like 24 or 25. I was coming from a healthy/supportive family background but was suffering from disorders that I have since mostly learned to deal with. That guy is probably…

I work at a restaurant, so... lots of unpleasantness toward women and minorities, hidden beneath the guise of, "oh, we're all just having a good time!" Our staff are generally pretty liberal, lots of tattoos and casual drug use and all that, and are also almost entirely young and white (of course, the back of house…

I was a burgeoning singer-songwriter until I tried to "make it" and realized that I have no patience for playing the game of fitting into the profitable music industry... but shortly before I quit, I decided that I needed to write a Happy Song, since all of my songs had - up until that point - been well-written but…

Nobody's saying that you're not allowed to use your eyes to view things that are visible. Nobody thinks you should defy physics. However, if you are the kind of person who thinks that visible cleavage is an invitation to stare openly or gawk or make creepy leering faces, then you need to accept that most women are…

I'm a waitress at a 24 hour diner. Most weekdays, I am the only server on the floor after the last dinner person leaves around midnight, and the morning people don't come in until 5:30 in the morning. This means that if I get an unexpected rush of people at 3 am, the options are to either fill up half of the…

On top of everything else (which others have already pointed out), keep in mind that she is 19. Part of his offer is for help finishing high school. I'm assuming that he knows enough of her story to know whether or not she had finished high school by 19, and seeing as how she hasn't... I mean, that could happen to a…

As a waitress, I play cleaner-up-of-bodily fluids both to people's untended children and to drunk adults... does this make my job the hardest of all?

Others have pointed out all of the issues with this... all the posturing, assumptions, etc., and the correlation =/= causation... so I will just leave my two cents as a night shift worker (waitress, so the job is high-stress, physical, and yes I am inclined toward smoking and drinking like many of my coworkers).

Hehe... yeah, a lady called from Ft. Worth last night while I was at work, because she was trying to find a place that would deliver coffee to the people giving testimony. I work at a 24-hour diner in town, and while we don't do delivery, we decided to figure out how to calculate a price for 6 or 7 pots of coffee and…

Aaaahhh I had the same problem when I quit! I never stopped craving cigarettes. I don't get how everybody develops a revulsion for them after quitting... it would have made it a lot easier to stick with it, instead of going a year smoke-free then breaking down and picking up the habit again like I'd never stopped. My…

Ehh.. I like to think that my doctor is taking appropriate hygienic precautions. I don't expect my doctor to scrub thoroughly immediately before a routine checkup if they washed their hands an hour earlier and have only been dealing with paperwork since then. In an ER setting, or for surgery, there's plenty of…

I'm not a mother, and I am terrible with babies... but I do have experience being one! And apparently, I was like yours... my mom tells me that for the first several weeks, I would scream non-stop unless I was on her chest, and even then would often cry. I would only sleep lying against her chest/shoulder. The nurses…