This seems like one of those ideas that someone pitched to the Mayor as a splashy policy that would generate a lot of “tough love” good publicity, but lord will it have massive amounts of unforeseen (or completely foreseeable from some peoples’ points of view) consequences. For instance; disabled children won’t get a…

so to increase the graduation rate, they’ve decided to essentially make it harder to graduate

Well, that’s just stupid.

Yep, I’m currently miscarrying (as in, still bleeding from my chemically-induced miscarriage. It’s been a fun week at work) because at 6 weeks there was no heartbeat and the fetus stopped growing. We’re disappointed, but we know that healthy pregnancies don’t miscarry. I had very high hormone levels, which is…

Yeah. Had a bunch of miscarriages, did this a bunch of times, and in case it’s not perfectly obvious to everyone, it was certainly shoved into my face over and over: a fertilized egg is not a baby; an embryo is not a baby; a fetus with a heartbeat is not a baby. If you are very unlucky, as my cousin was, even a…

I always ask conservatives whether there should be pre-natal child support if a fetus is a “full human being.” To date, I have not received an answer.

There’s 1000 things wrong with this, not the least of which is:

I made a burner for this. No one knows this story except me, my husband and our healthcare providers. I had an abortion of a baby I wanted more than anything, ever. I loved her so much.

First, let me apologize for my backward ass state. I fucking hate living here sometimes.

Waiting for the increase in funding for disabled babies and their mothers. Waiting... waiting...

A union is why I now get a scheduled, paid lunch, where I am guaranteed to not have to be anywhere for 30 minutes, from my previous job of shoving food in my mouth while standing in a maintenance closet when there weren’t any visitors around.

“9 to 5" is a song, not a job.

Or in order to pay the babysitter less. Every minute away from little kids must be paid for.

Same. I would rather be at work for 8 hours than 8.5... I prefer spend the half hour at home instead of hiding in my car with a book (I refuse to sit in our breakroom so people can come ask work things while I’m not getting paid)

Thanks for the comment! I’m in the same boat. I skip lunch so I can leave at 5:15 and see my baby before bed time. It’s worth it to me.

My job is commissioned based so the faster and harder I work the more money I make and the quicker I'm outta that hell hole, so I usually skip lunch unless I know I'm going to be bunkered in at work.

When I was hourly, I used to hate the lunch system since it was (state law) mandatory to take a half hour min for lunch. Absolutely hated it since that also meant if I wanted to get paid for a full day I would need to work later and my reward is sitting in more traffic.

I’m in the same boat, I’d rather graze for a bit during the day and leave an hour earlier to be with my family in the evening.

Came to comments to say this. Third type: those of us who work straight through so we can get home at a reasonable hour and see the kids before bedtime.