This so much brings me back to my grandma’s funeral and my disgusting uncle Glen saying “OOO YOU BETTER WATCH THAT ONE” and pointed at me.

As someone who developed early (C cup by age 12, also tall) believe me, I know about men just deciding how much you “owe” them due to your appearance.

Domestically, Sanders and Warren are examples of more or less parallel evolution — while both currently espouse a European-style social democratic welfare state, they’ve come to that point from very different starting locations.

I read an article that said the embryos they were supposed to have had implanted were both female, but after multiple ultrasounds told them they were having boys, they called the clinic to ask what was going on. But the clinic assured them that they were going to have girls! So the clinic may not have known, but at…

Yeah. If I’d written that show, it would have been “Jane the Plaintiff.”  I couldn’t watch the thing because of that storyline - it’s so horrifying. 

Maybe not if the other two couples had tried implanting all of their embryos and couldn’t carry them to term or they weren’t healthy enough to implant, etc. The whole thing is a legal and emotional mine field for everyone.

Would they want to though? Because I question if someone who went through that much trouble to have a biological child would be satisfied with raising a child that wasn’t theirs biologically.

Imagine telling everyone in your life who knew you were pregnant what happened to the babies and why. And then going through all the post-partum stuff without babies, but lots of people feeling sorry for you and probably gossiping about it behind your back.

oh my god oh my god oh my GOD

so, i love jane the virgin very, very much. but i always thought that they really, really glossed over the whole “incredible trauma of an IVF mix-up” aspect of the show. which, i realize, is the entire basis of the show. but basically jane was just like “oh dear, well he wants a baby and cancer and it was his…

It may be sector-specific, that’s for sure. What I was trying to address was something I see more and more now - the sense that this is just normal and workers have to accept it. In my own life, I’ve definitely worked no-benefits jobs (usually things like retail) and jobs with long probationary periods, during which…

Time to unionize. They’ll probably get a whole lot nicer (or threaten-but-not-threaten to shut down the publication) if that weapon’s on the table. 

I never said my experience was everyone’s. I was responding to the comment that this is “typical” of a probationary period. There may be an increasing number of jobs that do this, but it isn’t something that ordinary workers should consider typical or just put up with. It’s exploitive and there are better options out…

Oh, no. Wasn’t thinking about that. Duh. No, that’s extremely craptastic.

The three months without benefits thing is pretty standard for all jobs these days (although maybe not for people who are already working for the company that has been acquired?)

Yeah its way too easy to have your insurance lapse in our system. An emergency or planned specialist visit and you’re screwed

I would bet this type of employee cleanse is going to be the norm for companies. Forcing employees to start from ‘square one’ to eliminate those employees that build salary and benefit packages that can be filled by cheaper seat fillers. I’ve had this happen from within a parent company, switching overlords, and…

“Get your job done without being told.”

This :“The creative process is collaborative; management decisions are not.”

I’m a health inspector in Oklahoma, and I’ve gotta call bullshit on this article for a handful of reasons. This article doesn’t provide any information about *avoiding* foodborne illness (FBI) in the first place, leaves out critical information about common FBI, and then cites iwaspoisoned.com as a way to determine…