I had a boss who was a native Roman who used to conduct business in Italian and apparently “Salve”, as a salutation, is not appropriate in the workplace. I tried it on him and I got the malocchio. On the other hand he kissed me more that once (he is straight and I’m a guy) and this didn’t raise an eyebrow.

We will have to recreate “The March on Rome,” like the good (homo) Fascists that we are. The anniversary is coming up, I think it was late October in the 1920s, maybe 1922?

She’s really one of those “failing upward” types that I wouldn’t allow to walk my dog. I wouldn’t take her failures so personally if I didn’t know several people who were among the 30,000 who were laid off and several more who had HP stock in their retirement funds that went into the toilet, ensuring that they will be…

I consider myself a feminist (a male, gay one) and to paraphrase the cliché, “some of my best bosses were women.” What she did to HP was horrific. Trump has his several bankruptcies behind him so LOL about his business prowess but Fiorina is not far behind.

This is still astonishing to me. I know there are parts of the world (not the parts of the world that I would want to live in) where relatives have to provide bedding and food for relatives in the hospitals, or what pass for hospitals.

This conversation with all of you who actually know what you’re talking about, as opposed to me, has been really eye opening for me and I hope for the rest of the Jezebel readership. Now I’m realizing that stethoscopes are like what knives are to chefs and tools are to carpenters and mechanics and anyone else who has…

When I was in high school we had a guy transfer in our senior year. He was gregarious enough but we didn’t get a chance to get to know him very well because about two weeks after arrival he died from cardiac arrest, I think he had undiagnosed arrythmia or something.

But what if the stethoscope were issued to you personally? In offices every so often they give out promotional things like coffee mugs, say. You’re not expected to pass the mug around.

But why wouldn’t they issue you your own personal stethoscope? I’m thinking of the military, they issue uniforms that aren’t passed around for communal use.

No, but I was thinking you take the job and part of it is “here is your stethescope, welcome to ‘General Hospital’.”

Oh God, is this another “upgrade”? Off to get lunch and roam the streets. The joy of working (or not working, as is my case now) from home.

What would your cousin’s motive be to ask you to help her track down her own mother? That is a pathology, it sounds like. Is she garnering pity or sympathy or something? I have a couple of younger relatives who shade the truth a little bit but it’s really tough to lie to your own (distant) family members if they, the…

Are you really Nick Denton? Fess up.

Guilt might have been a motive. Imagine giving interviews and writing (fictional) memoirs about surviving a concentration camp. I’m not sure that right after the war and for decades thereafter there was any kind of compensation. There must have been some kind of psychological motive behind all of this.

I don’t know how nurses do it. I’d last about an hour in an ER before I’d have to be admitted myself, for the stroke brought on by the stress and the trauma.

I read once, I think it was Matt Taibbi when he was at the late, lamented New York Press, that stay-at-home Moms think their anthem should be Duncan Sheik’s “Barely Breathing.” It was insanely funny the way he put it; I’m not doing it justice. (I should talk; I work from home and my sister is a SAHM.)

You have to buy your own stethescopes? It’s not part of the workplace-provided equipment you need to do your job? That’s interesting. When I’ve had office jobs I’ve never been asked to buy my own computer or chair or anything.

In his defense, I was a pretty youthful 41-year-old! At least I was living like a college sophomre…

There is a strange, small subset of people who do things like this, for seemingly no reason. I was at a party once and some acquaintance was mouthing off about his narrow escape from the North Tower. He was working in Stamford, so not even in the same state as the WTC. I made a new friend in high school who told me…

If you go to the site they have education, business, and finance sections. You really should read the linked article. It has garnered one comment, from “Elijah Wilson”, who wrote, “Great tips, thanks.”