"Can I get a caffe' latte, please?"

"When Rosa Parks said she didn't give up her bus seat because she was tired, she meant that she was tired of being treated like a second-class citizen, not that she was physically exhausted. This is clear in the full context of her statement. The idea that she was just a quiet lady…

Thank goodness for the small acts of resistance of front-line employees. Poor guys.

I really doubt any of the Starbucks actually wrote on the cups or had conversations. The one I got to (because you may take my life but you'll never take my chai latte!) thought it was hilariously stupid.

Thank goodness.

I'm shocked I tell you! SHOCKED!

This is quite honestly the most inexplicable and obviously awful corporate idea I have ever heard of. They would have been better off reminding people they offer health insurance to their employees, unlike most independent coffee shops or fast food joints. For that, I have never hated Starbucks, but this "race…

Well, that was quick.

Like, are you for real? You just discounted the experience of a woman ON AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS AND EMOTIONS OF WOMEN BEING DISMISSED. Seriously?

I am am the youngest, most junior, and only female team member in our company, and it is exhausting. I'm just in the habit of presenting my ideas to my boss in 6 ways to get him to hear me. He is actually very good about giving me credit in retrospect; he has on several occasions sent out an e-mail to the whole team…

Definitely it plays out with race. It plays out with poverty/class issues, too, but in the form of "really, you're not that much poorer than I am" or "no, I'm not that rich" because it is assumed that poor people are exaggerating the specifics of their dire situation. "Youre not really starving, surely you can buy…

Jezebel, Jezebel. What have you done to me?

My brother is a serial fuck-up. He just cannot get his emotional shit together. he has a good job (somehow) but is in a loveless/abusive marriage and is an alcoholic. Despite this, members of my family consistently believe his narrative of our childhood over mine simply because he is male. He physically abused me…

This is why talking about issues women face spirals so quickly. "X happened to me." "Nah, it was probably something else altogether." We're considered unreliable witnesses and interpreters of our own experiences.

I know, right? Tipping and being at least pleasant to your servers is just a basic way to spread some cheap joy around. I'll sometimes tip more if the person in front of me was an insecure, dickish little girl. Maybe it makes the servers day, or minute, or hour, and maybe they're in turn nicer to someone else that…

From her bio: "She runs, reads, and eats way too much and is passionate about humanism..."

I love to tip.

I don't grt people who don't tip. If the service was decent, 15%. I've tipped $5 for coffee at a diner.

How many times can it be said that if you can afford to eat out, you can fucking afford to tip? Not enough times, apparently. Jeebus. I love to tip. I loooooove it. I feel frickin' righteous about it. Sometimes, I tip my barista FIFTY percent, btw, even though she or he has spent a mere 60 seconds on my dirty chai tea…

A more nuanced version of her argument would also include something saying that the employer is obligated to adjust any wages up to the minimum hourly if the server's combined tips don't reach it. To which anyone who's worked in food service at all can just laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

It's par for the course. I only do so when I recover from my fainting couch, as the staggering amount of $15/hour caused me to pass out. What would I do with a multitude of riches?