And beyond that, there seems to be a disproportionately large percentage of police officers who openly flout the laws and proclaim they don’t need to obey them. The most common (and pretty egregious) errors are made with regard to drunk driving laws. Go to a police event where there’s drinking involved and try to cut…

I remember the response after the cops pepper sprayed students at UC Davis. A bunch of cops came forward saying, ya know, you have to get people to respect your authority. It really didn’t get through to them that there are times when it is legal to hurt people and times when it is not legal to do so.

Law enforcement professionals need to be able to acknowledge they make mistakes, and work to improve. If doctors refused to acknowledge mistakes and made no effort to improve, we would lose our ever loving minds. If pilots refused to acknowledge and investigate mistakes, we would again lose our complete and total…

I understand the thin blue line. I understand that cops think, “That coulda been me. Mistake made. Gotta support my brother.” But I’m a public school teacher. If I found out that a teacher was fucking a student, there’d be no way that my knee-jerk response would be, “Well...you have to understand that...” Give me a…

You probably did better having taken your exam than, you know, skipping it and failing that class. In my experience, employers are more impressed by the fact that I graduated college than the fact that I provided Barnes & Noble with two weeks notice when I quit that job in 2000.

Here’s my HR story...feel free to enjoy.

One of my associates recently told me that she really likes working my jobs because she can ask me questions without worrying that I’m going to judge her or make her feel stupid in front of the team. And while it was nice for me, it really bummed me out because of what it says about some of the rest of the managers I…

Seriously! What kind of manager won’t get their hands a little dirty for two hours to help their best employee, with a backstory like that, attend her college graduation.

What blows me away — in addition to all the other reasons outlined by Alison Green — is that the manager never offers to come in early and cover for her. When I was a manager, I would stay late with employees to help them finish earlier and get out of the office. Or I’d come in early to help them if they needed it.…

Uh, I don’t think that the employee is impossibly sympathetic, neither do I think that the manager is unbelievably evil.

Manager account spotted.

Atrocious.

These are the same people who say stuff like “I hate (or love) all people, Black, White and Purple” for some reason they like to throw in the Purple guy.

Don’t you know “Erin” means “Africa” in Gaelic?

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The redemption of Matthew Knowles and Jay Z, at least in the narrative of Lemonade, reminds me of the end of The Color Purple. Only once Shug, Nettie, and Celie start getting the respect they deserve from the men who have harmed or betrayed them, are they welcomed back into their lives as a large, chosen, family. So…

Okay now a piece of investigative journalism on the relationship Bey has with her two half siblings. I am dying. To. Know.

Women always seem to be giving men all the forgiveness.

Thank you for this. You know, when I see Matthew I see my own father; a loving but selfish man. A strange combination of excellence and brokenness. I’ve always felt so ashamed of my father’s mistakes. As if they’re mine, as if his mistake somehow reflected the inadequacies of his children or our mother.

“I want my unborn son to be like my daddy/I want my husband to be like my daddy/ There is no one else like my daddy/ And I thank you for loving me.”