How is “sabbatical-like” a sour note? Sabbaticals aren’t year-long paid vacays, they’re a couple of months where one gets a temporary reprieve from some duties in order to lose one’s mind trying to create something else. If it’s the “to a lesser degree men” portion, MA is the only state I know that mandates parental…

It’s a novel. Sorry but I have exactly zero sympathy for people getting pissed off and taking it personally when people write fiction they don’t approve of.

I don't know about other companies, but my maternity leaves both required medical proof. I think that's pretty common.

You already need a projected date of maternity to qualify for unpaid FMLA time

You kind of already do. For any time off that is unpaid by the employer, an employee has to file for short-term disability and FMLA - all done through the employer. So literally my first day home from the hospital after having our son, my husband went into work to email my employer all of my documents that had been…

Nothing I read today encourages me to want to have kids. I am convinced most parents are less happy for the first 15-20 years of childhood and potentially only exceed in their later years. No thanks.

THEY DID SOMETHING I DON’T LIKE THEREFORE BULLYING

a cool thing about doing EMDR/ truama therapy is that i feel like i’m no longer a victim or a survivor. it’s like a thing that happened that i no longer have any connection to

But they weren’t invited to happy hour! How humiliating!

thank you. That person has no idea what “degrading” really is. This is some stupid privileged shit.

I love it when someone is trying to tell about their horrors of employment and all they got is, “I wasn’t treated really well.” Oh, no, did you guys really have to work in a conference room?!?! How did you survive that? They treated you like just another worker and not the precious individual that you are? Yeah,…

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So what is your solution then? Everybody lives exactly the life you prescribe else they lack true autonomy?

Ten to one, it was the young mother’s ex.

I’m guessing other family members must have some idea who would want to take out their entire family? It is clearly not random so somebody in that family must have an inkling who might have done this.

A small town? A series of inexplicable murders?

The linked article (outdated discriminatory vestige) makes me angry. I say this as someone with no legal experience or knowledge, but the statement contained regarding the fact that murder victims can't be on juries but murderers can, and how murderers, rapists and pornographers will now be on juries and voting, makes…

This is an excellent question. I’ve gathered a panel of experts on the female body to see if they can find out what exactly is going on with... all that: