See, that's logical to me. You deal with people face-to-face? Dress the part. Look like you care about the way you present yourself. Call centers, though? These people don't know if I'm wearing my favorite Vera Wang shirt, nor do they care (well, one guy who calls in cares, but women are under strict orders to…

My company works with a lot of contractors and repairmen and plumbers, etc, and I can't tell you how much that's true. I hate to sound like an advocate for only dealing with Big Box vendors, but SO many mom and pop stores I've dealt with are REALLY fucking stupid. Asking people to put INVOICE NUMBERS on their invoices…

You like me! You really like me! Nearly five years after the shart heard 'round the world, I am so glad my fellow Jezebel guys & gals can laugh at my misfortune. If I knew then that one day the internet will be laughing along with me, I would have been really chill about it. Thanks y'all!

Or the court reporter. I once had to stop my opponent from having a privileged conversation in front of me because he assumed I was the court reporter, and he was then mad at me for his wrong assumption.

Speaking of musicians, the way people treat women in music is deplorable. We’re mansplained about anything about musical composition, musical history, or sound engineering. If we say we can’t hear ourselves in the monitor, we’re laughed at and accused of wanting “More *Me* in the Monitor.” We’re told how to dress and…

OH GOD. I work in manufacturing, soft sexism/racism is my life. Like, maybe you should just not talk about how “Black Lives Matter” protesters are protesting the wrong thing when your boss is a WOC?

"Oh, are you the paralegal?"

I think we can safely say that it’s both.

I don’t think that’s soft sexism, more like blatant in your face sexism.

#2 is not true. It's one of those widely distributed "facts" that has no factual basis whatsoever.

I'm with your husband on this: get an actual reusable water bottle. Better for your wallet and MUCH MUCH better for the environment.

So far based on a casual perusal of the responses no one is pulling the "No one could afford to pay the servers without tips! No one could afford to eat at restaurants!" Ace! However, if anyone is considering it, f-you. I worked the service industry briefly, and it sucked. My sister worked it for years, and it sucked…

I'm learning to do this. Less "I wish I'd done something different" and more "things would have been better if I had been a different person with the opportunity to do something different". No more implied fifteen-year-old-self-blaming for the sexual harassment she didn't know how to deal with.

Sweet mother of God this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. I have never worked in the food industry, but I know from sources like this just the kind of living hell it is, so I try to do my best by you all; the very least you deserve is respect.

I would just like to add, for the amusement of the commentariat, that Pinkham and I have confirmed that the place he waited tables in Maryland was the very same place where I used to always scum around with my friends and one night stands in college. There might have been some overlap.

Those people took rude and entitled up to Super Sayian Blonde Giant Monkey Earth Trashing level. I cannot even.

Still more useful to me than a fondue set, actually.

I'm not American and came from the poor end. It's all cash! Cash! Cash! It was to help pay off loans and car loans and pay for rent and groceries. What the hell is everyone's issue with etiquette and "it's just not done?" Well, it's done in some circles where money is something that affects people every day and a…

Buying someone pre-selected dishes from Macys or spoons from Crate and Barrel does not express "love" anymore than a check. Giving kitchen crap type gifts is 100% cultural and more cultures just give cash. Bring on the red envelopes.

The dumbest thing I did was to NOT register at Target.