oh completely agree! i had to work weekends to afford my internship, and never once explored LA the entire six weeks, because every moment i wasn’t working unpaid i had to find a way to make 50$ to get food for the week. theres no exaggeration re: ramen. it killllllzzz me when i see my friends living the lavish life…

I totally agree with your #2 there are several people in my office with the same position as me. Some of us get all our shit done in 40 hours a week and some are there late several nights a week. I got reassigned a customer from one , which I admit is a bear to deal with, but I am still out at 5 every night and she is…

I’m also salaried to do a job, but I discussed expectations of hours with my employer when I got hired.

I dunno- I think at that point you should just call it “volunteering.”

It’s illegal to not give breaks on an 8 or 10 hour shift. I hope you didn’t work there long.

I had a friend of my interning for a SFX house here in LA. For six months, living in his car (crashing at my place on the weekends), he worked 80 hours + a week, no compensation, with the promise of employment when it was over. They never gave him the job, they just brought in new interns. It was brutal for him.

Unpaid though. And I am very sad for you that 50 hours is considered average. I am employed to work 40 hours per week, if they want me to work longer than that they can choose to pay me more.

Too exhausted and too dysphoric. I’ve never seen such pleasureless 20-somethings.

only if you are actually getting paid for that.But if you do the same job and the overtime like paid employees, it doesn’t qualify as an internship anymore but as exploitation.

Yeah the Gulf Stream saves us. My cousins in Wales live in places where you can even have the odd palm tree and lots of so’wester storms. I don’t mind temp variation. Most every day is cloudy where I am too so I get the grey feeling.

THANK YOU. Same. I remember when Gen X was getting these stupid fucking scare articles about how dating is over and everybody panic!!!!!! but it’s actually based on what like 10 super-assholes are doing in Manhattan.

Women in the ciivil rights movement need to be celebrated not forgotten. Claudette Colvin should not be left to history’s dustbin.

“A WOC doesn’t face racism and sexism separately. The sexism she faces is often racialized and the racism she faces is often sexualized”

So as a woman who’s boyfriend cheated on her with a friend of mine, I say STOP NOW. Stop now until he breaks it off with her because if you don’t, you’ll always have an inkling feeling that he may be cheating on you (and he might be if he doesn’t respect current gf enough to break up with her). I’d personally forgive…

That is so awkward. The other adults are in the wrong for encouraging that behavior because you have the right to say no. They shouldn't have been side eyeing you. I wear a jade necklace my father gave to me. I would never give it away to a random kid.

A new laptop will always be helpful for a soon-to-be college students but also! think of experience gifts- tickets to see a favorite band, maybe a trip to see some really cool fish. Your son sounds like a cool kid. Congratulations! Being able to celebrate that will be so fun.

How does someone get to the point where they think it’s acceptable to offer to buy shit off someone in order to stop their kid from crying? Take your damn kid aside and have a “not everything can be for you, honey” and if she continues to wail, take her the hell home. WHY IS THIS HARD???

I went to Reykjavik in November and still found it amazing. The days are short but it’s not 24/7 darkness, and Iceland has a lovely, muted beauty during that time of the year.

Women spearheading movements are often characterized as the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, wives/girlfriends of male victims of police brutality rather than victims themselves. That’s not to say that those relationships aren’t important and that their voices aren’t important but, again, it’s in the context of…

Rousey has never said anything racist as far as I’m aware, and no, it’s not the same. Saying Fallon Fox - who has badly injured several fighters - might need to be carefully evaluated because she might have a biological advantage over cis female fighters is not the same as saying something racist.