God, so much this. I interviewed for a job a few years ago and saw a GIANT red flag when the woman who would be my boss said, “I just really care, and that’s why I work so hard. I’d do this even if they didn’t pay me.”

Do you mean sensitive? If not, I understand less now than I did before.

Do you mean sensitive? If not, I understand less now than I did before.

All I have to do is “pick a love”? Well, phone up Tom Hardy because by that line of logic we are betrothed.

Guys too. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Guys too. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The ones that detach! signed, girls everywhere.

The ones that detach! signed, girls everywhere.

I have people who routinely try to schedule meetings for 6 am - they’re East Coast and I’m West. They know how time zones work. I always decline and request to reschedule “during normal business hours.” I don’t schedule meetings for them past 2 my time. It’s just polite.

I’m aware. And it sucks because with the right management, most jobs could easily be 8-hour-a-day-and-forget-about-it jobs. It’s a massive failure of leadership.

One other thing worth noting is that polls involving anecdotal self-reporting about hours worked are notorious for being inaccurate on the high side. Unless people are keeping a detailed log, or unless there are other things to validate them such as hourly wages and paystubs to show the number of hours worked, you…

Yep. If managers are logging crazy hours, employees have to as well. At my old job, the culture was not to work around the clock except for C-level management. My first boss there, who expressly said he values work-life balance and kept his word (took vacations, encouraged us to take vacations, asked us about our…

This times a million. I went and read the article and was so offended by the tone, because (a) talking about miscarriages nonchalantly seems like it would actually be really good for removing the stigma and (b) why the fuck shouldn’t she be honest on her own twitter.

Exactly. After a certain point, you get nothing done. The idea that your presence, whether it is sitting at your desk surfing Gawker or responding to a bullshit email at 11pm or sitting through an endless, aimless conference call, is more important than your actual work is the most corrosive thing in the white collar…

She’s fucked up and crazy and this is mostly just dumb. But also, even though white upper and upper middle class folk are the people writing and reading most of this crap, can we just please stop it with the fucking whining about how terrible white collar jobs are and how people need to learn to take time for…

1) live-tweeted a miscarriage during a board meeting

Fuck that. I just got promoted to manager, and I nevertheless plan on working 4o hours on the dot each week. A lot of older managers are in the habit of logging on in the evenings at my company, and I can tell you all that there is a 0% chance of me doing that. As soon as I do it, it will become the expectation. Nope.

Five years ago I had a couple of coworkers discussing how if you’re a man who wears shorts above the knee, then you’re gay. Then I made the mistake of assuming that they were joking and they then vomited more homoantagonistic insights upond my person. It was this major wake up call because at that point in my…

If you’d like to make a statement make one, don’t try to shroud your opinions in questions. You don’t need my permission to be an asshole.

As will the reminder that just because federal law allows same-sex marriage doesn’t mean the fight for civil rights is over.

yes I agree. example my husband just asked me what was wrong why I was angry and I said “I’m not” and “Just leave it alone” because I knew he wouldn’t like the true answer. Finally I broke and admitted that I was frustrated that while I was gone for two weeks he did LITERALLY NOTHING around the house to clean it and…

I’m just over here laughing about the fact that this guy even had the balls to think oh hey, I’ve been out for a run, I think I’ll call the wife and see if she’s cool with me also taking still more “me time.”

this is pretty dark, but once I considered how I would handle things if my partner were to die (she’s got odd hours, rides a scooter and had a wreck early on in our second child’s life) it really changed my ideas about parenting/household stuff. At first I wanted to be fair and square, 50/50, we had a chore list and…