But she doesn’t see color! She uses the n-word with a frequency that would impress a klansmen and she noticed she’s the only white person on the street, but she definitely doesn’t see color.

The fact that she calls the police because she saw black people is fucked up, but the fact that she moved to a black neighborhood and appears to call the police every time she sees a black person is a special variety of fucked up.

I don’t think contact solution has the same stuff in it that it’s in visine that makes you sick? Which I was thinking about this weekend because I caught my not quite 2 year old drinking contact solution.

This is a thing I never knew I needed, and now I don’t think I can live without it.

This is my husband as well. He refuses to accept that December 81 makes him a millennial. He’s cute when he gets all pissy about meaningless generational dividers.

I think we were originally millenials because of the age we were at the millennium, but then they changed it? Or not. I don’t know. I have heard of Generation Y, but most articles I’ve read seem to ignore it. Which is fine. But I don’t think there’s consensus on the existence of Gen Y (I believe! The truth is out…

State government. The wages suck, but the other benefits are pretty good.

My grandparents all seemed to die in their early 70s so in my mind that has made 35 middle aged even though I know that maybe isn’t technically correct. It is definitely the year where I am starting to give less fucks, so I like it a lot, but I don’t really feel old either. Regardless, I took 3 days off last week to…

It’s possible that we are actually Generation Y, a thing which exists or doesn’t depending on what you are looking at.

I do kind of get it though, if everyone is calling you entitled and lazy and then you had a lot of trouble finding a job you feel like you can’t ever take time off or you might seem lazy or ungrateful or lose your job. But I absolutely agree with you. It’s part of your compensation, it is owed to you, and you should…

Like hipster was once used to describe a very particular type of person and now appears to be applied willy nilly and mostly just means “younger and into something different than you are”.

Yes, my mom is a boomer for sure (1947), but she was in her mid 30s when I was born, which is unusual for the area that I live in and I have no idea if that makes any difference or not, but might at least explain some of the commonality I seem to share with the Gen X mindset. On the other hand, I do identify with some…

It’s true that I seem to have something in common with both generations, but not everything in common with either (which is probably partly related to the whole being a human being with a set of circumstances that means I am not identical to another human being born at the same time with a different set of…

But it does make me feel less stupid for not knowing what generation I’m supposed to be a part of - I swear at times the millennial generation seems to actually encompass two separate generations and I feel dumb that I’m confused. I’m also confused about why I care enough to devote any energy to worrying about it, but…

Part of what confuses me so much is that I don’t recognize myself in so many of the characterizations of the generation. I’ve been working since I was 16, at least part time, sometimes multiple jobs. My husband who is also a millennial has been working since he was 14. All of our friends (even the younger ones) seem…

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day off!

No, that’s correct. It’s one of the things that causes them to be more encouraging of a person taking their leave. They don’t want to have to pay you for whatever amount of leave you still have.

I get more time than the average worker as well and we are also encouraged to take it so they don’t have to pay out more than a certain amount if we leave. After 240 hours accrues you basically have to take it or donate to the catastrophic leave bank which they use when people have serious illness or family related…

I live in fear of an emergency that requires me to take a lot of time off, so I usually try to keep around 60 hours of annual and 40 hours of sick, but I am also fortunate enough to earn 12 hours of annual and 8 hours of sick per month so I still manage to take a decent amount of time off.

My husband just spent 5 years at a place like this. Where he would tell me he couldn’t take a sick day despite having like 200+ hours of sick time on paper. Or how he was supposed to be able to take 2 weeks of leave when our kid was born and that 2 weeks was really like 3 full days off and about a week of half days,…