There’s a talk today at my workplace on topics like this and on how women can make their voices heard and how young women can find ways to lead. I was thinking of going until I realized that at 40, I am no longer the “young women” they’re looking for. Women younger than I am will be put into the leadership development…

this needs way more stars

Hmmm. Lemme see here.

Are we? I’m not local.

I know this’ll fail because Kinja always errors on me when I try to post a pic but I liked this one. edit: wooooo! worked!

Not only that, it also suppressed my future potential earnings and in turn decreased the % increase I’m getting for an internal promotion!

I appreciate the effort, but no, I’m not a misery-loves-company kind of person. I’m sorry that happened to you.

I hear that “bad negotiator” stuff too. I guess I really must be a bad negotiator since I can’t negotiate equal pay with someone with equal experience and less education, for the same job. :-/

Most underrated Selena tribute ever.

In this picture, Trump looks so much like Rygel from Farscape, I just can’t get over it.

Generally, men are four times as likely to ask for a raise, and when women ask, they seek 30 percent less on average.

I got a similar pitch once. Luckily I didn’t bite; I think it was just because I’m basically an introvert and the thought of selling is just so bleak to me. The only kind of sales I’d ever do is inbound. I liked working at a store at Disney World, but that’s about it.

Half the people from my ex’s grad school class (all graduated, best private college in the state) are involved in these.

No, just her.

I was once married to a guy with a similar sense of his own self-importance, and a similar hair-trigger temper.

This American drinks iced tea without sweet. Yum.

I’m 40 and I would not card that guy.

UGH, not surprising but so disappointing. Prior arrests eh? Any one of them for a crime that merits summary execution without trial? Because I bet not.

Emma’s not in it either, I thought?

Yes! I loved doing stuff like that. Now when he comes back accusing me of keeping stuff like his high school yearbooks, I’m just like WHY THE HELL WOULD I HAVE KEPT YOUR YEARBOOKS, I DO NOT HAVE THEM. ugh.