That Mel B story is giving me hives.  The nerve of that fucker!

Please cite a case. This is a Civil Rights Act issue, which absolutely applies to private companies.

I agree, and I would like to say that it doesn’t fucking matter if dude is burning piles of money in the back yard, if Britney’s income goes up, her children’s lives should reflect that. It would if they were in her care. 

My plan was to drive across the country with my dog, Travels with Charley style, and then open a used book store and live above it and wear my head in a long braid and eat Grape Nuts for breakfast every day.

Basic harassment laws apply to private companies. 

Okay, and in what way did my comment make you think that is what happened in my situation?

Thank you. Your opinion is valuable and I appreciate it!

Oh right, I loved that one.  I was the person who was sort of on the fence about the vasectomy while I was pregnant, it was my husband who was gunning for it!  And yet, of course, I’m the man-eater who should have also gotten my tubes tied so I showed the proper “commitment” to not having children...

The firm job is with the best possible firm I could imagine. We do incredibly important work and it’s a great environment. I clerk there now and I can’t believe how lucky I am to get to do that.

Yeah, you have it tagged correctly. The complicating factor is that the law firm job is with an incredible, small all-woman firm that specializes in exactly the kinds of important civil rights work I want to do (we’re currently in the news for suing the governor on behalf of Planned Parenthood, for example). I could…

It seems popular to argue that women should get their tubes tied if they don’t want any more babies, since otherwise we’re hobbling men or something.

That’s exactly it.

Damn, that guy again?  Ugh.

Where I was for a long time, the only real move up you could make was into a lower level accounting clerk position, but even that was difficult and required you to spend your own money to take extra courses in accounting.

There’s no unions for litigators, unfortunately.  Every litigator I know works long, unpredictable hours, it’s the nature of the job.  I’m pretty decent with work-life balance on the whole, and my firm is better than lots of others about allowing flexible schedules and work from home, so I’m in a good spot, but it…

The mistake I made was thinking there was any real direct track from secretarial to administrative or analytical type work.  Not without getting an additional degree was that ever going to happen.

Like, there’s currently people trying to drag me and others because we are speaking positively about vasectomies. Who the hell gives that much a fuck about vasectomies?!

At this point, we’ve been living so cheap during law school (even with a couple kids) that even the easier government job would be a step up. On the other hand, there will be loans to repay, and the kids will eventually need shit like braces, and maybe eventually I’d like to not live in an apartment. The other…

I absolutely agree with this, in addition to doubling down on my “no secretarial work” theory.  Set your sights lower and work your way up but do not confuse being a receptionist in an office to being an underling in an office who can actually go up.

I haven’t been on Jez seriously for a while because I’ve been crazy busy, but where the FUCK did all these trolls come from? I mean, it’s always been an issue, but this is bananas. I miss the old days.