No joke I asked for “hard water” once when I was around 20 weeks. When I got a blank stare I said, “WATER. BUT HARD. YOU KNOW? WITH CORNERS?”
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How was I unaware about this series until now? I NEED IT.
I am very upset about this news. I am going to blame 50 Shades of Grey for this. Deserved or not, it seems the right answer.
I effing love that show.
Like I said I’ve never tested it, so maybe they really wouldn’t do it. But I signed a policy statement that said I understood that’s what they would do after thirty minutes. I’m salaried so I don’t get any extra pay to stay late so any daycare charges wouldn’t really be covered. It can get really messy really fast.
Especially because some of the people she asked who told her no, then agreed to work that same shift for other people they are friends with. That is so beyond the pale. The boss should have said “You told Jane you couldn’t work Saturday. So you either are available to work for her or you’re not, but you can’t work for…
My guilty pleasure is advice columns and somehow she manages to get some of the most batshit crazy letters of any of the columns I read.
You probably did better having taken your exam than, you know, skipping it and failing that class. In my experience, employers are more impressed by the fact that I graduated college than the fact that I provided Barnes & Noble with two weeks notice when I quit that job in 2000.
I seriously cannot tell you how many times I have had to deal with an employee using the company credit card for porn websites (yes, they were fired). Why don’t they just watch porn at home? Or at LEAST not use the company credit card! It is on the Company Credit card statements! Watch the free stuff, people.
WUT.
yeah, I mean, an example from my own life is that when I worked in retail during college, I didn’t start getting my legally required breaks until I mentioned my sitch to my dad and he said he would call them and insist they give me my breaks if I didn’t say anything. The requirements of when you get a 5 min. vs. when…
This. Many of the letters on that site showcase the worst of humanity.
Except they weren’t asking for advice on how to rectify the situation. They were asking for advice on how to best go about telling the e-employee that she acted “unprofessionally,” under the guise of caring about her future career.
YES! I read Ask a Manager every day, and this is one of the most insane letters, in terms of cluelessness, I’ve seen on it. Fuck that LW!!! That woman deserved the whole day off, without question! A foster kid who made good, has a stable job, got her degree, and you took a fat shit on a very special milestone day in…
For sure. Wasn’t it nice of them to give her a job when she had no family and no one even loved her enough to give her a place to live? I mean, who was going to be at her silly graduation anyway? It’s not like a concert, where you can only go one time.
Your Mayflower ancestors may have come here legally, in a sense, because there were indentured servants aboard and they were bound by contracts. In fact I think the whole enterprise had contractual obligations to whoever financed the whole thing.
I remember her saying, “yeah, so sorry that the LOSS OF MY WANTED PREGNANCY and the procedures that go along with it were inconvenient for them. I should have done a better job of LOSING MY BABY over a weekend instead of on a Tuesday."
wow good. they should teach labor law basics in elementary school. So many people put up with illegal work places because they don’t know they’re entitled to better by law...
My cousin was lectured for not giving enough notice for her miscarriage.