Hi Cuomo, can you maybe spend some time working on things this city actually needs? Y’know, more affordable housing, closing income gaps, improving train stations in low income areas, establishing a more financially equal public school system, protecting small business owners? No? Just tits? Okay, thanks.

Young woman changes career path because of health reasons and personal feelings about sexualization in the modeling industry, and we mock her for it?

You are the bookstore hero we deserve.

controversial idiot “Food Babe” blogger fearmonger.

It might depend on just the sheer volume. The museum I worked at is one of the most visited museums in the world. On an average day, I would personally interact with roughly 500 people. On a super busy day like during the holidays, that number could be close to 1,000. A quiet day was 300 people. More people, more…

I had a patron tell me the other day that he shouldn’t have to pay his library fines because “the books are old, so no one really reads them.” This is after admitting to me that he failed to renew them before the due date 3 times (we’re an academic library, and our borrowing periods are a freakin’ semester unless…

Personally, I feel like it’s a good experience to work somewhere in service for at least a little. It’s taught me a lot: patience, how to be outgoing and approach strangers, being more understanding when I’m on the customer side of the register, how to tell someone to fuck off without actually saying that. However,…

That’s awful. I was student teaching in a school library last semester, and my mentor there just completely ignores fines. It’s a small enough school that she knows all of the kids, and as long as the books come back before they graduate, she doesn’t see the need for fines. If another student needs the book and the…

I’ve got a boss like that too. He’ll yell at you if you legitimately do something stupid, but he’s always got your back when it matters. He found out a guy who came in fairly often had followed a cashier down the street after her shift and he told the guy that he was not welcome back in the store.

Sometimes it felt like a sitcom, only depressing cause I was living it.

Oh, the race card is always fun to deal with. The comic store I work in has bag check because the space is so tiny that most bags will knock stuff down, and I’ve had people accuse me of it being a race thing, even though it’s so not.

I’m going into school librarianship, and I’m already bracing myself for that part of the job. The rest of it will be worth it.

Hey, not everyone is in that position. A lot of it depends on where you are. I’ve rarely cried at my long term job at a comic store because of the environment, I’ve gotten mad about customers, flipped them off after they left, bitched to coworkers and the boss because I know that I’m supported. (Though I did cry the…

Lol. Do you do parties?

Oh, sometimes the managers are way worse than the customers. I’ve been lucky that at my retail job (where I’ve been consistently part time for 8 years) that the managers and boss have always had my back, but when I was worked at a museum it was different story. It was a very much “Us vs. Them” culture with the…

In a police affidavit, Labrie, who was a prefect educated in statutory rape laws and consensual sex, told detectives that he had been pushing back against the “Senior Salute” tradition, pointing his finger at St. Paul’s School. “The school has to put its foot down on this culture,” he’s quoted as saying. “It’s not…

I would love to see John Oliver do a longer piece on Planned Parenthood defunding and the necessity of sexual health care services. I feel like it would be a nice follow up to his Sex Ed piece.

There is nothing that’s not sad about this story, and my heart goes out to everyone involved. I live a few blocks away from Hines’ apartment, and it’s extra upsetting knowing that this happened so close to home.

Ah service jobs (food/retail/anything). Where pretty much everyone has at least one story that ends with “and then I went and cried in the bathroom.”

Oh thanks. I didn’t feel like eating today, and after reading that I certainly won’t.