Talk to your new job about the non-compete and what your current boss has said. See if they’ll support you/help you in any way. They have to know that the non-compete would affect them too. And maybe they’ve dealt with this guy before. What’s the penalty in the non-compete?

I’ve been feeling really crappy lately because I’ve had to work so much on my dissertation (deadline looming, I’m over half done though, and today was able to eliminate a whole section that I now don’t have to write, so YAY) and also work work (gotta actually make sure we can eat) that I haven’t had much time to spend…

Of course!

My high school was four stories tall, with a big lawn out front. Guys would start fights out there, and they’d get about 2 minutes of sparring in before a phalanx of male teachers would break it up. If the wrestling coach was on the scene, he’d make them shake hands. But rarely if ever would cops get involved (and the…

Yeah. I realized recently that I did the same thing with my ex. He’d treat me like shit, then apologize and tell me that he “didn’t know why he did it” and I’d forgive him because he was broken and it wasn’t his fault. For all my snark and sarcasm, I’m nice and forgiving. I think to a fault. Asking this girl to leave…

Mine got suspended for a day after she hit a boy who’d been catcalling her with her bra. Just whipped it out from under her shirt and whapped him with it.

My grandmother went into assisted living as of yesterday and I feel raw about it. My mom/dad and aunt have been taking care of her more or less since December. My brother and I live halfway across the country, but my three adult cousins—who all live within 10 miles of grandma—have been totally useless. Worse still,…

Ahhh you guyyyyyyys after a whole bunch of non-starter dates and being ghosted by a guy who seemed cool and then turned out to be a cowardly fuckboy, something may have stuck.  I had my third date with a guy last night and it was great. He is great. I’m trying not to get TOO excited because people can surprise you in…

It wasn’t quite this bad when Kate and Will got engaged, but they had been publicly dating for almost a decade by the time they announced they were finally getting married. She was a known quantity to the press by that point. Harry and Meghan were only dating publicly for a year before they got engaged, so I think…

So I finally told my parents that I can’t have them staying in my house anymore. I think I told them everything. I told them they make me feel trapped in my own house, that they don’t respect my house as being mine, that they disrupt my schedule and affect my mental and physical health. I told Them that last year they…

I have been trying to limit and eventually remove my toxic mom from my life. She’s been super emotionally abusive for as long as I can remember — and she’s joined forces with my asshole sister. My anxiety and depression soared last month and I just needed some space from everything.

It’s so hard. So so hard. Because if my mom did things his mom did/said to him, I would wonder if my mom was having a stroke. Stuff was so mean, so awful and he just took it as normal while I’d be like .5 seconds away from blowing a gasket to stand up for him (which I eventually did. When she told him that comment…

So I forgot to tell y’all a story that happened a few weeks ago!

If this is the most salacious they can find, go Meghan.

The girls asked to do this. How about focusing on giving these girls a chance to be kids. They’re becoming a community, they’re making friendships that may last a lifetime and they’re Doing something they feel proud about. I agree that there are some issues with the way the transfer of money is structured, but this is…

So, this is the long saga of how I ran screaming from Corporate America and never looked back (and this is about a 10th of what happened as a whole). It’s really long, you don’t have to read it, but it was nice typing it out.

Not a pay gap story, but a story of a boss (or series of bosses, I guess) giving me that much needed push I needed to spiral further into depression back in 2016.

This is long, but it feels good to share:

Twenty years ago, I had a corporate job and my boss showed savings in her annual budget by factoring appropriate raises into the budget, then delaying their implementation for months. Because she was the chief Legal officer, HR would not intervene when I complained after my increases were delayed 3,5, and 7 months…