This would have meant a lot more in November, before it was already happening.

It’s funny, because my husband alleges that I generally shout, “I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING,” right before I flail blindly and make a giant mess of home repairs.

Don’t worry, guys. America knows what it’s doing.

Shouldn’t. Does. Universal rules of employment environments don’t apply, and there’s there’s not really anything to Ask a Manager about.

Go on ...

You aren’t wrong.

Is anybody else worried that eventually, this wall is going to be used to keep us here?

I often wonder what office environments must be like if, “That’s not appropriate,” is both a statement and a solution. I’m sure HR would prefer I continue to be passive-aggressive so that they don’t have to keep sending him form letters about respecting differences.

HR doesn’t give a shit. My work environment is not universal, so regular people rules don’t apply.

At a university in a conservative region. He has tenure.

I’ve reported him once for a sign which made me extremely uncomfortable and once for some work emails which contained slurs against trans people. He gets a slap on the wrist and nothing changes and there’s no reason he should change.

I’m done turning him in but…

I have one particularly homophobic coworker who’s really been overdoing it with pro-Trump posters on his office door.

... so I know what’s getting laminated and put on mine first thing.

#thatprotestsign

I want to hear that interview, if only because it will cheer me up. Thank you for sharing.

This may or may not have been part of the logic used when I was thinking of questions.

Unfortunately, they still teach it that way in a lot of public schools. I am actively trying to educate myself but it takes a long time to find all the garbage that you get fed when you’re too young to question it.

I’d be ok with a test to eliminate potential voters, but only if the questions focused on practical applications of constitutional or social issues. For instance, “Freezepeach allows you to have required prayer in public school. True or false?”

We had a tiny terrier when I was a kid who lived to be 19, and probably would have made it a few more years had his love of mischief not taken him to a place he ought not have been.

SoulMate Dog is a big dog, and their life expectancy isn’t as long. I whisper, “Live forever,” to her every night before bed and she’s…

I refuse to watch movies in which the title character is a dog. I also refuse to watch videos where dogs are being treated to the best day of their lives before being euthanized or when they’re being reunited with an owner after deployment, etc.

I will only watch videos of stray dogs being rescued if a.) someone can…

I saw the trailer in theaters and wasn’t going to see it anyway (we have an elderly dog who is my soulmate, and any reminder that she is not immortal is very upsetting).

This is just a reason that doesn’t involve Kleenex.

We watched it as part of a drinking game. It was a lot of fun, but maybe not for the reasons the producers intended.

Counterpoint: People who don’t have dogs don’t really have lives.

But I’ve spent the last half hour watching my two beasts work up the courage to fuck with the fan in our living room. The carpet is bubbling and they may think the floor is alive?