I maintain that they don’t actually hate women. They have realized that social issues are a very good distraction from the real shenanigans that these guys get up to with our laws and our money. It is pretty easy for someone to have an opinion about abortion rights or same sex marriage. You don’t need to do a lot of…

I think we agree- you can’t do use it all or loose it all for PTO and not give sick days. It really needs to be one (vacation and sick) or the other (PTO with at least some banking). Because in January - people still get sick, but no one has any days off in their bank if they just had to use it all before the end of…

It may be a regional thing... I live in So Cal, and it is the land of the hipster bro (I am also an old - not a twenty something)... and men around these parts simply do not dress nicely. I used to work at a hospital and people wore basic business attire there, but you go pretty much any where- hipster bro. Some clubs…

A few thoughts on various posts:

Yeah, I guess that’s where the breakdown comes, people don’t think about the natural consequences of use-it-or-lose it... which is come January, you are going to have an office full of sick people because everyone just burned through their time off before the end of the year.

That’s exactly it. You treat your people with loyalty and respect, for the most part you get that back. People who love their work and love their job want to come to work and do a good a job. They want to contribute and be productive, just like owner or manager.

I think that’s a good compromise. Like feeling run down, bit of a head cold, use a PTO day and get yourself healed up. But if you were genuinely sick, you could even retroactively get your 3 days back when you tapped into sick time. And I had no problem with the doctor’s note either. I worked at a large hospital and…

I guess the key to a successful PTO program is the ability to bank a little bit of time. You can’t have PTO be use it or lose it, because yeah, people will take it up to the wire and then if they are sick in January, there is no time to take off. That’s not going to work.

We get the PTO (paid time off) bank that you can use for any reason at any time. That is what we are expected to use for the occasional day off for illness. There is a separate bank for illness, but you have to jump through a few hoops to access that. At my previous job it was like missing 24 hours of work (so like 3,…

I can’t pretend that I’m agnostic about the Bush family - but is anyone else just loving how Jeb thought he could just phone it in and get the nomination and how mystified he is that he hasn’t just had this handed to him like everything else in his life. Like he seem genuinely confused as to why he can’t just sort of…

Meh - I have worked enough places and worked long enough to know that stuff like this tends to go in cycles. Particularly if you are talking about people who are at the same level. One person decides that it is time to leave for whatever reason and it like wakes everyone up. They feel like they are missing out and…

I wonder if the age of the ladies that would be featured in your standard FHM pictorial have something to do with it as well. I am sure there are plenty of traditionally attractive girls who would agree to get their picture taken for a magazine like this... but the one’s that are trying to build a career are much more…

You know - as I get older, I have found that I have to take ownership of saying “Emotions coming at you.” Honestly I think all of those years of playing “nice” worked against me because now that I’m old and have no fucks to give any time I mention something that makes me unhappy or I don’t like he interprets it as the…

Yeah I agree with you. I have an advanced degree in a hard science field and by pretty much every metric I’m smarter than the average bear. Dating as a younger person I definitely struggled with how much smarts to let hang out and how much to keep on the DL. I think some people didn’t date me because of that. But I…

But like - I had this blazer, in white, from Old Navy which I wore sometime around 2005-2006. We were just coming out of the time when everything on top was super tiny. The proportions on that jacket are about right and the top scarcely hits the top of her pants. EVERYTHING was short back then.

Oh yeah - if you can swing it you definitely make a buffer and then strategically remove said buffer when a chill looking youngster with headphones and a deep interest in his/her cell phone gets on the bus and you slide over to make room for them.

I agree - you go around the block a few times you get a sense of a rhythm to your relationships. It starts with the casual coffee date, you go to dinner and the movies, you hang out at his place, he hangs out at your place, you start meeting each other’s friends... meanwhile the physical aspect is chugging along as…

I know - I am a horrible sleeper in the best of circumstances. Add in a bit of stress or the like and forget it. Hubs also decided that it was time to take an epic snoring habit and I was dealing with a lot of job stuff... I was exhausted. I moved my situation into the guest room out of pure need to actually sleep for…

You know, there is something rather train-wreck awesome about a lazy con artist in the age of Google. Back in the day, con artists really only had to know just a little bit about whatever they were going to use as the con in order to initiate. You needed only to learn the name of minor royal in the 19th century…

In general, I like some PS stuff. I get a PS coffee from my local market that’s good. I have had PS cheesecake at dinner events that made me very happy. Some stuff it’s fun...