Most of my work environments have been predominantly white and I’ve been mistaken for “the other Black woman” at all of those, whether the other one was taller, shorter, darker, lighter, totally different hair, 40 years older, does a totally different job, and on and on. The only job I’ve had where it didn’t happen…

I hear the terms “silo” and “siloed” and “siloing” a lot at work. They refer to different entities that hold information and don’t share it - I’ve generally heard it used as a negative. “There’s a lot of siloing here” basically means that every department or business unit or group does its own thing and doesn’t share…

I used to work somewhere that had a lot of married couples. In three cases that I know of, the couples met at work. In two of those cases, they didn’t work together directly and they were out to HR. In one other case, the couple was already married when the husband started working for the company, and then his wife…

Thanks for posting.

I have a family friend whose daughter is in Malia Obama’s class at Harvard, and before she started the daughter was like “Maybe she’ll be my roommate!!” (She was not.) My friend told me he saw Malia in a restaurant as he walked by the weekend he dropped off his daughter and he was low-key giddy about it, and he’s not…

Did you see that Twitter thread where a branch of the military (I want to say the army but I’m not sure) asked how the military had helped people and all the responses were about PTSD and other bad things?

I’ve been in there when they’ve been out of spicy but never just out of ALL the chicken.

It is a good sandwich. The proportions are right. I had one two weekends ago (with no trouble - the place was crowded but that’s not an anomaly). I don’t fuck with Chik Fil-A because of all the homophobia, so it was nice to have a chicken sandwich that I didn’t have to worry about.

I feel like Retta might have a joke about going to a KFC that ran out of chicken. I also think I remember people fighting in KFC because there was some kind of coupon promotion and the people who couldn’t use it (maybe because they’d run out?) were brawling. This was during the recession.

He’s been pretty outwardly racist. Just check his Twitter feed, and didn’t his radio show get pulled because he said the n-word on air?

Yeah, I know the term. With men it’s often linked to not being able to provide for the family (job loss, etc.). Horrible.

In the case I mentioned upthread, the daughters were 17 and 22, so one was an adult - about to get married. And in that case, the mother had a history of depression and suicide attempts. I really wonder if that was the case with this woman.

And removing the stigma around seeking mental health treatment.

I remember a case where a woman shot and killed her daughters and herself because her husband was leaving her - the woman told her husband outright, as she was doing it, that she was doing it to punish him. This mentions her ex-husband; I wonder if this is a similar thing?

I don’t put the blame on her for what happened to Darla, but I do blame her being so supa dupa nonchalant about it, even after knowing that Darla don’t live that life anymore.

Even within the episode, it’s a roller coaster! Like when Pray told Blanca she shouldn’t have to die to know peace, I cried. Then later when Elekra was fussing with the light in the hospital, I laughed. When Damon showed up at the hospital and dropped his bag and sprinted to his mother, I cried. When Papi told Ford…

I don’t watch it to begin with but if I did I’d boycott.

I was encouraged to do this once on a data entry temp job. I think I was in college. My first day, my supervisor was like “So you need to enter all this [gestures toward huge stacks of paperwork]. It’s 8-5, with an hour for lunch. We’ll pay you for the lunch. There’s no restrictions on the internet so it’s fine to…

Dassit!

There’s also the issue of scale. Maybe that poor person doesn’t need an iphone, or fancy coffee, or an attractive hairdo. But the cost of those nice things someone buysbut can’t really afford ain’t even close to the cost of housing, or utilities, or groceries. Maybe they could’ve saved some money by foregoing that…