My first real job was at a convenience store where the usual retail malarky happened. So I’ll talk about the FIRST DAY of my second job.

My first ever job is a job that I actually put out of my memory, purely because it was so fucking traumatic and it’s something I only think about if I allow my mind to go back to summertime 1996 and the disastrous two weeks I spent working for a bank call centre.

I appreciate what you’re saying— I really do. Therapy can do wonders, and I wouldn’t be here today without the help of the therapists I’ve seen. That kind of support can be a literal lifesaver, and the lessons and tools you can learn and develop through therapy can help you for a lifetime. We definitely agree on that! …

I don’t have a great horror story but my first real job when I was 18 was grave digger at the local cemetery where we buried homeless people in card board refrigerator boxes. That was horrible in and of itself.

Lifeguard at a public pool where people regularly drowned. We pulled almost 400 people out in a single summer. Mind you this was one of those walk in pools so there is no reason to drown. Management would test us by throwing a fake plastic baby in the water to see if we noticed or we’d be fired. I regularly had to…

Exactly this! I had no idea that I’d grown up in an abusive home until I was nearly 25, (thankfully!!!) as I started reading up and preparing for the challenges of becoming a parent. I left home at 18, so most of the physical abuse stopped then, but their emotional abuse didn’t stop until contact with them stopped @8…

I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in December of 2019. After a couple of months of interviews, I was offered a job working for a Google contractor in the Seattle area in February of 2020. As of March, my 8 weeks of training was cancelled. I have sent out well over 200 resumes since then and…

I will die on the hill that both “you guys” and “dude” are gender neutral. I call my mother dude.

I'm getting married in a few weeks and my partner, after four years together, has started to bring up COVID denial and global cooling ideas. It's stressing me out.

Chris Pine is the Taylor Swift of the Chrises; absolutely harmless but at the same time, you want them to speak up. Have any kind of personality. Tell me what your favorite cheese is! Anything as long as its an opinion!!!

I have some experience with the Debras of the romance world. I do not understand why they don’t just say “thank you” for the book every time one appears. Roberts/Robb is publishing something insane like 3-5 full length books a year, plus novellas probably. That schedule with her consistent quality is like the Michael…

Oh, a topic I can speak to with some authority! I haven’t examined drunk driving during COVID-19 closely, but we have seen a startling increase in another driving behavior: not wearing seatbelts. Most of the country has been at about 90% compliance with seatbelts for a very long time, but that compliance rate has…

I’m sorry, but this is such a silly take. I realize it’s reflexive for a lot of us on the left to believe that we’d win in a landslide if only we just ran much further to the left and to proclaim that every set back is proof of that article if faith, but there’s very little evidence for that. It would be one thing if…

I’ve read lots of epically stupid Jezebel posts, but this has to up there. By the logic of this article it wouldn’t be good to have a woman President either, since they’d be “complicit in US imperialism.” You know there will be a Secretary of Defense no matter what, right? And they aren’t going to hire a peace…

Why haven’t I see a single mention of Trump saying “Good” when Biden brought up the fact that Trump’s administration can’t find the parents for over 500 kids at the border? I was absolutely shocked to hear that; Trump actually said the quiet part out loud, and no one is reporting on it. 

I thought maybe I was the only one who caught that! I expected it to get at least a mention from pundits after.

Anyone else disgusted by Drumpf responding “Good!” after Biden was talking about immigrant kids not being able to be reunited with their parents? This tosspot and the monsters who worship him better reap what they sow.

The problem with your statement is that you’re entirely focused on individuals/individuality, and not systemic patterns. Yeah, individual MRAs are immature, but they are being rewarded for their immaturity. Yes, both individual men and women are assholes or bad people; but there’s a specific stripe of behavior that…

“Censoring gay art because they are gay is discrimination.”

There’s also a difference between addressing a specific concern raised about a principle that you have deployed in arguing for a particular claim, and waving your hands around because you cannot actually address the concern.