I could be totally wrong here, because I've never actually watched any of his films (they don't really appeal to me. At all.) But from the outside, it looks like almost all of them contain a 'Woody Allen' character, who is always a mildly neurotic, self-deprecating, funny, middle-aged Jewish guy, who is (fittingly…

Good for her for protecting herself, especially as a teenager with parents who obviously weren't looking out for her. I certainly don't think Teenage Me would have had the awareness or strength to flat-out reject someone with that level of professional sway.

With a toddler at home and my own hereditary concerns predisposing me to breast cancer I can absolutely identify with looking at it from your children's point of view. The last thing I want is to be sick and or die during their childhood. My mother was diagnosed at 32 and died at 48, and I was worried about her from…

I've been in near-constant work-overload for about a year now.
#1 & #2 are key. Some days I am a juggernaut and knock things out left and right.... Others I will try to work 2-3 projects and feel like I made zero progress on anything.
The next day I make it a point to finish something, anything, just to get a "win"…

the negative PR the company has suffered in the wake of sexual assault and rape complaints.

It's so true. When I worked retail and had one of those customers that came in just to shit on the lowly retail employees forced to serve them there were days I walked away, or snapped and I always thought, "thank goodness I don't have to depend on pleasing these assholes for my salary."

Why do I owe someone extra money just for doing their job? I work retail, and get paid crap for it. I'm expected to be courteous and helpful and provide "excellent customer service" with absolutely no possibility of a tip or commission. Why should it be any different for someone working in a restaurant?

Jesus Fucking Christ. I work retail, and I want to reach through the screen and punch her in the throat. And the reason I work retail, as opposed to food service, is because I would never want to put my livelihood at the mercy of assholes like her. This means when I'm out at a restaurant I ALWAYS tip 20% (it's 1…

I had so much to say but don't want to type it all so I'll just say this:

Tipping IS absolute bullshit and I would love to end the practice, but that's not gonna happen unless wages for serving staff are brought up to reasonable levels. We are unfortunately stuck with an awful system of compensation for a very small segment of the working population for the foreseeable future.

I completely agree with her that automatically having to tip people is bullshit - I shouldn't have to pay more for service that was just mediocre. HOWEVER, I recognize that it is such an ingrained part of the service industry that if I didn't tip the only person who would be affected is the server, and so I always tip…

Yep. This sentence sums it up.

My child shall only feed on pure energy.

I'm confused about why it's called bone broth. I have been making broth with discarded chicken bits for...ever. Now it's suddenly this magical "bone broth".

Baby girls named James is officially a "thing" in my super-hip Brooklyn neighborhood. So, really, she's joining a trend in progress. It's not a trend I'm am super into.

I reminded of a Nip/Tuck episode when the black market organ snarcher (a woman) was named James but she said in French, j'aime meant love. I really thought that was clever but I doubt that's what's going on here.

The college thing. People, please, for the love of god, consider the college thing!

At one point, she asked if he would consider quitting his job to be a stay-at-home father given how much he wanted a baby. "That just wasn't the plan he had in mind," she said.

I.e will not stay put...

Ugh. As a former retail worker, I feel bad for the employees who are going to have to explain this policy change to very angry shitty asshole customers. Despite signs. Fuck.