I had a coworker who said something extremely racist about another coworker. She got fired, and rightly so as far as I’m concerned. Is it your stance that she should not have lost her job, and that the coworker about whom she was racist should have to work with her?

Yeah, they do

I was a shop steward in my union and yes, this, exactly. I have no qualms with bad employees losing their jobs - I do think that where possible there needs to be due diligence in corrective action before disciplinary action, and I want to ensure that the process is fair and followed in every case. If you have multiple…

I just lost my union because my employer was acquired by another, larger, non-union organization. So we lost our sweet, sweet, union trust healthcare and now I have a shitty high deductible plan where nothing is covered. Not to mention the grievance process, labor management committee, and all the other accountability…

Can you let me know what about that song you find to be political or protest-y?

Redhead chiming in: when I had my appendix removed, the anesthesiologist told my mom that redheads require higher doses of anesthesia and we get loopier on it.

It isn’t hard to say the right things to convince a professional that you aren’t in imminent danger and be taken off watch. I work in mental health and have fought many an uphill battle to get doctors, social workers, and other people who are supposed to know better than me to believe what I’m telling them about the…

Yeah - I work in mental health. I had a client who was pretty much always suicidal. She slashed her arm open and wound up in the hospital and I tried to get her on a 72 hour hold as a danger to herself - she just said the right shit to the people who assessed her indicating that she wasn’t actively planning to take…

I don’t work in prisons, but I do work in mental health in a residential setting, and I have no trouble believing that he was able to commit suicide despite ostensibly being on protective protocols. Understaffing, long shifts, and the inability to keep eyes on someone 24/7, plus human ingenuity, mean that where…

I was just going to ask all my coworkers if they remember this movie, and then I remembered that all my coworkers are in their early 20s, not their 30s, and I got so so sad.

She *is* mischaracterizing, because she’s stating that the Globe passed on the story. The Globe explicitly did not pass, and there’s texts to back that up. The Globe continued to pursue the story, the subject chose not to take it further and then ultimately did with Jezebel. Forget about the word ‘weak’ - the…

Awkward, unwanted kiss at the end of a date? Sure, I wouldn’t call that sexual harassment. Awkward, unwanted kiss in what you thought to be a professional setting? Um, yes, that is by definition sexual harassment. I wouldn’t accept it at my work, you wouldn’t accept it at yours, there’s no reason she should have to at…

ding ding ding, you got it. you’re supposed to sacrifice everything for your baby, including your bodily autonomy and your right to have a drink once in a while.

I do look down on fertile straight couples for popping out clones instead of adopting.

Why’s it a valid viewpoint? If you want a kid, you want a kid. Shouldn’t matter if it’s bio or not. If it matters, why does it matter? 

The picture of his hands hovering over her breasts while she’s sleeping is not great, though. He did that, it was a juvenile thing to do and if someone had taken a picture like that of me I’d feel humiliated and disrespected, if not violated.

Wait - *her* style is a driving part of *her* business and is a big part of who *she* is - then why does she need to pay someone else to style her?

The earning it back an album at a time is the deal she was offered. She’s claiming that outright buying her masters was never on the table. 

You say grown men and women as though she herself isn’t a grown woman. For god’s sake, she’s almost 30 years old. She is not a little girl.

Also her image stateside is incredibly sanitized. She wasn’t faultless in that marriage.