Of course it's selfish if she's demanding oral sex on her part. Just because you were treated like crap in a previous relationship doesn't give you the right to treat the next person like crap. If so, then I would have ever4y right to cheat on my girlfriend, cuz I was cheated on and didn't get my share in.

Yes, and yes.

I've never understood this "I get interrupted too much" gripe.

Based on court cases, everyone is a unreliable witness. Experiences are colored by emotions and previous bias which mean pretty much everyone sees something differently. It's why two people can watch the same video and come out with completely different narratives of what happened.

If you thought you could smell gas, you were crazy. Carbon monoxide is odorless.

Human Resources Is Not There to Protect You, They're There to Protect the Company

I always find it funny when companies try to suggest that you are part of a "family" with them. That whole family peice falls apart quite quickly when the bottom line isn't looking so good.

Human Resources Is Not There to Protect You, They're There to Protect the Company

"Human Resources Is Not There to Protect You, They're There to Protect the Company"

A few of my friends and I work for unions, a few friends work for other non-profits, and a few work in government. It's the same for us as in the private sector, even for us in the unions. It's probably because of the tendency for HR people to move between the sectors.

Superb. Thank you. I've been mostly fortunate that my current (and previous) jobs are/were on the decent end of things. That said, I'm no fan of the current system. It makes me laugh in the "land of the free" where we have to work 5 out of 7 days (or more) usually. Sound like an even trade to you? (h/t Work is…

Worked for a major company for about a year as a temp, and I dodged a bullet when I left for greener pastures. Employees were routinely bullied by department supervisors to the point of fainting and hospitalization, and when HR was contacted about any of this, their response was to either literally laugh at the…

There are a few things that you should be doing as an employee for ANY company:

It goes both ways. I've got a "reputation" in my company for being harsh and openly honest with members of HR, to the point where one of the weaker members of the HR team will actively avoid me in the office. Why? Because we had a "motivational day" where our HR team said to us all with a big cheery smile "HR are…

I just recently learned this lesson firsthand the hard way.

I never believed that idea of companies being my "friends" or "family", but with my first two jobs I did buy into the whole "work extra hard and do all the extra stuff they ask cause then you'll get more benefits!". I didn't have emotions when it came to "company loyalty" but I did think there were practical benefits.…

I was a fanatically loyal employee at my last job for 14 years. After a horrible reorg and reassignment that dropped me into a specialty I knew very little about, I got a call from a headhunter with an interesting sounding job in my former specialty with a good company you've heard of. It would have required…

I did 5 years at ralphs, one of the kroger grocery stores. I learned some very useful things, became the kind of employee that store directors show off to their district managers, and I took those skills the fuck away from ralphs. I now run the warehouse for a family owned pet store, and knowing that I'm more than…

Work.

Thank you so much for pointing out what should be obvious to anyone engaged in wage slavery, which is just about all of us. In most cases your employer is more than "not your friend", they are your enemy, nemesis, oppressor, etc. . They can and will sell you down the river at any point it seems in their best…