Over the years I have enjoyed reading Jia Tolentino’s work in both the New Yorker and on Jezebel but I did not read Jia profile instead I elected to read Luna’s. I am tired of reading features on Brooklyn base writers (even those individuals whose writing I admire) however I never tire of profiles on companion…

Take your crazy communist ideas elsewhere pal! 

Unionize... LOL

I agree. I just don’t think there is a definitive line you can draw here. My husband and I do not plan on having kids. I absolutely still think both parents should get paid leave. But I also think some sort of option of leave for people who do not use parental leave should be out there. And my biggest issue with the “y…

If the culture was work 9-5, weekends off, five weeks of vacation a year, we bring in coverage or pay coworkers more to pick up the slack, people might not so begrudging.

This is like asking if women (like the one in this story) who have to live with the current state of affairs aren’t grateful they are being given the opportunity to test their personal limits of fatigue and endurance. Disingenuous at best. If I hadn’t read previous posts you have made I might even think you were…

As someone who just left a huge American corporation but is based in Europe I recognise everything you just said. The working environment is so hostile it was one of the reasons I left: I think the moment when I was berated on a conference call for attending my grandmother’s funeral in the middle of a project…

Let’s be real: on this very website, with a “supposedly feminist”/progressive readership, the comments section on posts advocating for paid maternity leave (without Google as a Big Bad) always have many commenters-“supposedly feminist”,  progressive commenters-complaining about maternity leave, usually along the lines…

Wow. I observed the opposite experience with my former government workplace. Many women there got pregnant in the years I was there, and nobody ever seemed to have an issue. The ones in my specific workgroup certainly didn’t, to be sure. If anything, it seemed they did a better job than expected to ensure the pregnant…

I had to basically be invaluable during legislative session to get the “ability” to work remotely until the day I was induced despite the fact that my doctor wanted me to start my leave around 34 weeks when I started to have preterm labor.  I gave birth overdue and worked up until the last minute - only a week…

I work in HR. Can confirm. We are not your friend.

I (a female POC) learned, through my last job in tech, to not trust HR with a complaint. My male boss made inappropriate comments to me during a one-on-one. I reported it to HR (a female POC). The next week MY performance was called into question as, in the interim, my boss had gone to 6 of my female (possibly 1 male) …

Why, it’s almost as if there have been no technological advancements in the past (checks math) FORTY years!

When I was pregnant while working at a GOVERNMENT agency, my female boss was horrible to me. I asked to work from home for the last two weeks before my due date, because others got that perk, and here is her response:

HR works for management to protect the company. The sooner people realize this, the sooner you will understand the true role of your HR deparment.

HR Professional here, and I’m going to be a downer (as usual). There’s a lot of politics at the level that she’s talking. I doubt very much she’s midlevel professional.

For all the average Janes that are expecting or trying to get pregnant, I cannot stress enough to document every thing related to your performance and…

In my house growing up, swearing was seen as a healthy way to vent feelings of frustration. Swearing at someone (unless clearly joking) was a no-no. Swearing about the state of things in general was (is) fair game. I can’t think of any more appropriate reason to be swearing right now.

I’d gamble that Biden’s people have told him “you can’t just shoot from the hip, you get yourself into trouble doing that”, so he’s trying to stick to the scripted talking points. I think that was apparently each time he reached the end of his talking time and just stopped; he knows he’ll get his ass handed to him by…

Biden isn’t polling well, he has DOUBLE the numbers of the next closest contender, which kinda flip-flops between Sanders and Warren right now.  That's an insurmountable lead with primaries as close as they are.  Biden is the nominee unless his yacht crashes into a massive pile of wealthy elite donors and kills him.

Gabbard is an apologists for brutal dictators and a homophobe. She should be the last one on that stage speaking, let alone accusing someone else of hypocrisy. Fuck Gabbard, and shame on the media for not bringing up what a fucking fraud she is every time she’s in the media.