I feel you. I already had my wedding in 2015 but it was us planning a wedding in the city I grew up in which was cheaper than where I live but still not cheap. We were forced 200 guests down our throats, a promised 10k to help that never materialized (because my MIL used it to throw events for our “wedding” that…

Thats when I would decline the invitation, because no.

Being 100% honest, this sort of mentality people have is really annoying. Maybe these tech workers aren’t millionaires, or maybe they are and they don’t like this as much as the next person and are trying to make a change. But the way people vilify tech people, makes you lose a lot of sympathy for them even if you had…

This will be an unpopular post. I am one of those tech workers who are reviled because we’re displacing the poorer people in valley. Except, we have no control over the rent prices, or housing prices.

THIS. I really don’t understand why people think its some magical plant that will heal your cancer.

I am currently pregnant, and there are some recommendations that are ridiculous that a lot of people ignore like listeria in lunch meat.

Reasons I will never live in Texas despite how cheap it is.

Lol cutting the cervix or making a hole in the uterus. Because you don’t make a hole in the uterus when you get a C section, a relatively big hole at that.

I do, not nearly as bad as people who have to work at planned parenthood. But it’s not nearly as easy as people say to try to make a difference. You have to be really committed to what you do and really give zero fucks what other people think as well as be willing to put up with the insane amount of bullshit you’ll…

My inlaws are some of these people. And one thing I want to say when their fucking social security is gone and their retirement tanks is, You have noone to blame but yourself. I’m still young enough that my investments can recover, they aren’t. And we sure as fuck are not helping them.

I feel you

My parents gave each kid ONE toy of their choosing. Then we got one surprise of their choosing. It was sometimes really cheap like a couple of bucks and sometimes more expensive like 30 bucks (this is the 90s so account for inflation).

Nah, in my family giving money is perfectly acceptable. I always ask my family and my inlaws do you want money or do you want a gift. And I’ve never received any pushback sending money.

Yep, for my wedding I had both my parents do that (which isn’t that much better) but I felt more equal.

In my experience that’s often not true. I’ve seen lots of unqualified men get jobs and women rejected just because the hiring manager didn’t like women despite them being qualified or even over qualified.

Doesn’t mean hiring less qualified people, and the people I’ve hired have been well received by my coworkers as a general.

I see, I stand corrected. It’s a confusing term because it gets used a lot to mean a lot of things.

But saying that someone just couldn’t become a tech person simply because they were poor or a woman just sounds like an excuse sometimes.

Let’s be honest and say that when people say minorities they mean black and hispanic people because Asians and Indians don’t count as minorities.

Google the reasons and you’ll get the answers.