My biggest worry with this season is that it’s going to go the same route as The Walking Dead and ended up creating terrible, recursive character arcs couched in writing more concerned with the plot outcomes and shock value than... good TV. They have a more open conceptual playground and the pacing is still good,…

I’m completely confused by this impression of the show...as the precise moment it took the leap from “young-adult simpering and hand-wringing about personal relationships” was halfway through S1, haha.

Back half of season 2 is where the show gets really good, so you just missed the cutoff. It’s widely considered the best one, with (most of) Season 3 as a close contender. Season 4 had its stumbles but I found the breakneck pacing and bold storytelling to be a powerful refinement of what made this standout TV in the…

Interesting. For me, the show didn’t get good until the end of “Twilight’s Last Gleaming”. I guess it’s just not your thing if you didn’t like the end of Season 1 and the beginning of 2.

For all it flaws, and there are many, the one great thing about The 100 is how it reinvents itself each season. Also, I can see why SpaceMonty didn’t want to leave. He must have been crushing it up there with the female to male ratio.

that’s what i don’t get. it’s a four-person company, two of the people are out of town and she is the senior person left, so she should be able to work from wherever she chooses. the fact that they were so strict when they are basically running a blog, which means you can work on it from anywhere is weird. also, alina…

Actually, employees do get input on what they will and won’t do at a job. That’s the basis of an employment contract. And there’s actually a big problem in management culture in demanding attendance over actual productivity. Making workers come in/stay when they have no work to do is a waste of resources, and it makes…

Your millenial hate is trite.

But how many times can you be shot down before you just stop asking? Also- how much was she being paid? What were her benefits? I’d also like to know how long she worked there. I’ve worked with a lot of millenials, and being born in ‘82 myself, I see both sides of it. Are they sometimes entitled? Yes. But are they…

Exactly. There’s also the part where Emily insisted she wasn’t going to comment on Alina’s departure, but turns around and posts on social media they simply HAD to let her go, all while Alina has gone radio silent. Then she starts copying her content for weeks.

But if she’s saying she’s micro-managed and told to “tone it down” then it’s hard to tell if she was not permitted to submit her own ideas. I’ve worked in situations where initiative is not wanted, and it’s probably the most frustrating experience I’ve had. They literally would prefer me to not do anything than do…

Wrong!

The employer’s nuts IMO. The point of being in the office is to interact with coworkers and use the resources. Why make her be in the office when they’re not there?

Family businesses are the worst about micromanaging strange things. One I worked for took roll and if you were a minute late, you’d get docked 15 minutes on a salary job. (They did so many illegal things.) But they spent a huge pile of money on a building that didn’t suit the needs of the product we were producing. …

I also think it’s important to emphasize Alina was recruited and hired under the premise that her work hours would be more “flexible” and that the office wasn’t being utilized by the owners regularly either. According to Alina, the push to use the office 9 to 5 was fairly recent and was not an outlined expectation.

I followed the whole story because I have worked with Cupcakes and Cashmere in the past and was curious. Basically, Alina was offered the job and was told that she could have flexible hours and locations. It’s pretty common when working on personal blogs. Then Emily decided that she was not ok with her not bring in…

I’m going to have to disagree here:

Alina is not mad she got fired. She was looking to leave anyway. She’s pissed that her subordinate ratted her out after playing loyal and that her boss and long time friend didn’t even speak to her about it. She got fired by her boss’ husband.

I am old enough to have had several long term jobs during my “career.” Out of the half dozen, the two worst, I mean fucking awful, were the husband and wife run companies. No predictable work flow, no structure, absolutely no avenues for feedback. On the phone wrapping up a multi thousand dollar deal and wifey comes…

Boss didn’t leave for a month, she was gone for a week, and Alina and the other employee who works under her left the office a few hours early every day that week because they had nothing to do in the office. No phones, no meetings, no clients. They were there just to justify the expense of renting out an office space…