I agree.

That's a great story. But in the wealthiest country in the world, a family shouldn't have to have a first-round pick to have a house.

It also cuts when apply for a job as well.

How can employees be expected to have loyalty to a company when the management has little to no loyalty to the employees? I was laid off fro a job I'd worked for 26 years, with no severance, 3 months before I was scheduled to retire because of "budgetary considerations. A few weeks later, the bastards had the balls…

I was let go from a job last year a week before Christmas with no warning or prior complaints about job performance. Holiday firings are the worst.

As a young-ish teacher who gets laid off almost every spring due to "projected enrolment shortages" of students (and then re-hired a few weeks later) I increasingly struggle with loyalty to my employer. I love teaching and I love my students, but I hate never knowing if I will have a job from one semester to the…

Loyalty is fine when it's reciprocated. If you want me to be passionately loyal to The Company, then The Company has to be passionately loyal to me. Giving me a paycheck on time means I will be competent and professional and give the job my full attention during working hours.

Good for DJ and his family. They seem to have their shit together....except his uncle who is a giant douche.

I've a friend who's planning on leaving his job without notice. He's almost fifty and has never not given notice to an employer. It's killing him to do it, but the shitty company he works for will fire him if he tries to work out a notice and then not have to pay him his bonus.

The disgusting treatment of workers in this country is paying off in this new wave of job "disloyalty." Loyalty goes both ways, and companies have proven they are only loyal to the short-sighted bottom line, not to the people that actually make up the company. Why should those people give anything more than what they…

I have exactly as much loyalty as you pay me to have.

Well, since the concept of a pension seems to be a thing of the past, people aren't really given raises or bonuses based on tenure or performance - who gives a shit about that company, really?

At 26, I walked away from a good paying, well-positioned job. And by walked away, I mean I got up from my desk, sent a terse letter of resignation to my boss, and left. My department director apparently stood in the lobby shouting "well FUCK HER." It was at an "independent" school for girls ages 12-18.

I was laid off this past New Year's Eve, with no severance. Over the phone. By a "trusted" colleague. Yep.

the screws can run as much as $1,000 a pop.

Shit. What with America's love for shredding young female celebrities who have public breakdowns and making jokes about it for pretty much the rest of their lives, I hope Amanda's gonna get some good treatment now and be willing to stick with it. Because it wouldn't matter if she came out and did a Barbara Walters…

I feel the need to point out that Ronaldo's reaction, even hugging the guy back, was fantastic. Sometimes we all need a hug, and it's worth spending a night in jail and a lifetime ban from a stadium to get it.

Class.

Why does Deadspin always take the side of "whatever transgression occurred wasn't that bad" instead of "hey dipshit, it was against the rules, you couldn't have just not done it for one weekend"?

It's a minor infraction, but it could be the sign of a bigger problem. Athletes who cannot control themselves when it comes to women wind up it BIG trouble.