I’ve been a software engineer for just over a decade now and over the past 5 years or so, I’ve had a role in the hiring of other engineers. I thought it might be worthwhile to share how we’ve viewed these programs for new hires.

Let me start by saying that there are a wide array of companies looking for engineers. They…

Those are all things that the middle class just doesn't get to have anymore. You can pick one or two, but you're correct that you really can't afford all of that on most middle class incomes.

This is the reason we have astronomical student loans, tons of debt, and nobody saves any money for the future. The gap between…

Millions would be my guess.

My wife had this issue. When she finally confronted her boss on it, she found out they had a sexual harassment training where they were actually advised not to have non work-related conversations with subordinates of the opposite gender. :/ Sometimes even the training to reduce sexism is stupid and sexist.

That second paragraph feels like almost every tech company I’ve ever worked for. :(

My wife’s former employer was terrible about soft sexism.

She was always asked to order food for meetings and expected to handle setting things up and making sure stuff was cleaned up. She was frequently left out of meetings that her male peers were invited to, in several cases they were even meetings about the…

Consider yourself lucky. I get stuck trying to change my daughter on a bathroom floor or the tiny counter space next to the sink a few times a month. It's a huge pain in the ass.

I have kids, and your comment was fucking terrifying.

"Shaking the shit" out of your kids is pretty much universally frowned upon. Let's see how that eye for an eye mentality suits him when he gets older and gets expelled from school for shaking the shit out of a classmate one too many times.

"I can't lie though. Sometimes I fantasize about smacking the ever-loving shit…

I need to go work for Google. My taint has become downright unruly and my current tech job doesn't yet offer taint grooming.

Let me just say that these stories are even more pervasive than you might think. I know several people at companies who were treated far worse than this, but couldn't share their stories.

I give it a 4 out of 10. No use of the word libtard. Not enough exclamation marks. No link to crazy conspiracy site. You didn't even call Tom gay. Are you even trying bro?

Clearly you just aren't aware of the true threats to the US of A!

I'll be honest. I will probably still talk about it, and likely still fall into the 'Good White Person' role. I'm glad I read this piece, it's definitely a point of view I didn't consider. My friends both on Facebook and in real life are almost entirely white middle-class folks. Most of the time I don't post things…

I think this nails it on the head, but is also part of the problem.

I'm a very active father, and take over many of the responsibilities that would typically fall under the working Mom umbrella. I've gotten flack for doing dad stuff, people assume I'm some divorced father with visitation or crack jokes about now I know…

There is no such thing as an open and shut case in situations like this. The man who attacked my mother was acquitted of a previous attempted murder (that she was unaware of). His entire defense was that he was armed and strong enough to kill her, so the fact that she was still alive was proof he didn't intend to…

It definitely gets better. I know I'm not a mom (the beard is a dead giveaway), but in my home we both work at high demand jobs and I happen to be the one who does the bulk of the housework and all of the cooking at the moment (my wife is juggling a job and a startup, so the ball happens to be in my court on the…

According to wikipedia, the vasagel reversal should be possible, but it's still in testing and has only been tested on non-human primates. I imagine that kind of data will be released once the procedure is approved in the next couple of years.

Sorry, the DO NOT was more of a general warning to people who might be reading, not necessarily direct at you.

A vasectomy is an easy procedure that I would recommend to any guy who's done having kids. A tubal ligations is a major, potentially risky surgery and any dude who recommends it as birth control to a woman…

This times 100! I'm all for men stepping up to handle BC, but there are far too many people in the US that think surgical vasectomies are reversible!