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Refuge from Fathers' Day Open Thread (alt. title: my dad's a dick and I don't want to see everyone else's not dick dad on the internet today)

I tried to limit my rant to the title, haha. I find Fathers’ Day difficult (and I know many of you do for a variety of reasons). Say anything you want, whether it be father-related difficulty or the consistency of your morning bowel movement. Or other things. I’m sure there are more than those two things to talk about…

Today in "huh." (alt. title: is my workplace doing the right thing for once in its life???)

I mean, not for the right reasons. My workplace is trying to get out in front of this whole salaried people getting overtime soon thing.* We’ve been audited by the department of labor before, so I get that they are wanting to tread lightly with that stuff now, but this is SO unexpected; they tend to do everything the…

Things you're picky about that don't make sense (alt. title: true confessions of hypocrisy)

As I muttered under my breath for the 30 thousandth time about why doesn’t my neanderthal husband use the Brita filter, and why does he insist upon drinking poison water* straight from the tap, I caught a glimpse of a block of cheap, gross, cheddar cheese** I physically gnawed on when I had had a little too much wine…

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