I should have kept reading. I can get behind "pro-abortion rights," because that, in fact, seems accurate.

I'm not pro-abortion, though. I'm pro-choice, because the only person I get to make that decision for is me, but I'm not pro-abortion. (I really am pro-choice; I've had friends and family members make the decision to have an abortion and totally support that, because it was their decision. I've even helped one friend…

Not quite as bad as Skin Job, but yes, pretty awful.

The book is actually called Skin Game.

Oh, yeah, I really liked Hades in that one.

The books are much better in that regard. Obviously not perfect, but much, much better. The Percy Jackson movies.... um, yeah.

I went to a different school, in a different state, decades ago. For several months, I was sexually assaulted AT SCHOOL by a group of 2-5 older boys (always two of them, sometimes some of their friends). I tried to avoid them, but they followed me, and any time they could get me away from other people, they did. They…

But then you go ahead and complain that these people SAID they needed hours, why aren't they taking them? That sort of spoils the "It's none of my business why they can't/won't come in" part of your argument.

Yeah, it still makes you sound like an asshole.

It's not BDSM at all, because Ana (the sub) is NEVER allowed to say "no." Her "no" is always just steamrollered right over. Whether your BDSM philosophy is "safe, sane, and consensual," or "risk-aware consensual kink," one of the HUGE differences between BDSM and abuse is that both parties CONSENT. They WANT to do…

I worked at a "high end" daycare. (The company in question had three different chains, and we were supposedly the fanciest of the three.) We were in an affluent suburb.

Hey, at least your employers followed the ratio law. We did on paper, but usually my co-teacher was pulled in to sub elsewhere, and the kids who were "officially" down as M/W/F or Tu/Th (so we could have two kids in the same slot, because they weren't supposed to be there the same day) were full-week.

Oh yeah. Daycare was horrible about sick days. In fact, their solution if you were really sick (at the one I worked at—for $7.25 an hour) was to put you in the newborn room, because you could sit down more. That was their idea of "helping you out." I always was scrupulous about handwashing and I started carrying…

You can give them that explanation, and not act like they're turning down the shifts BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO WORK.

Oh god, I am so glad you've said you're in Ontario so that I know you're not MrsPye's boss. Because I like her boss and I don't want to start hating him, and you.... OK. I don't know how you do it at your fast-food place. At MrsPye's (I do not yet have my PR card, so I don't/can't work in Canada) workplace, they get a…

Then why don't you provide at least a small number of paid sick days for your employees, so that they don't have to make the choice between coming in to work sick (possibly medicated to the point where you won't notice/send them home) and being down on their luck? Losing one day of wages, even before the doctor's…

In the United States, a doctor's note can very well cost $200. The last time I needed one was over ten years ago, and it cost me about $125—and that was in a very small town with a low cost of living.

Yeah, if we had the space, I'd love to have my own room. MrsPye likes the room hot, with lots of blankets. I sleep better if I'm cold. And she has lethal elbows. Also, her work schedule means Ieither have to sleep on her schedule (which is bad for my mental health and energy levels) or get woken up when she gets…

I don't respect anyone's right to be stupid. I can't STOP them from being stupid, but I can sure as hell try, and I can sure as hell tell them they're fucking idiots when they do it.

Hot tea in the morning has not been a problem here (except for a few days here and there). Hot tea at 4 in the afternoon, after 3 hours of mass transit + grocery shopping (as I had done yesterday before my iced tea), was not happening. (I was actually there for a while, as I was waiting for MrsPye to go on break, and…