As I said elsewhere this weekend, the next occupant of the White House is going to be shocked to find no furnishings and all the copper wire ripped out of the walls.

it’s good at killing fruit flies.

No as bad as the coworker who thinks it’s ok to microwave leftover fish and the entire office stinks the rest of the day.

Want to add to that #1a subsection. The “cool/ultra bougie/Uncle Tom (Tina) other black person”. Being that they are the only black person in the department,etc they have been getting all the attention and petting from their white coworkers because they are so not like what MSM/family/friends have told them that black…

The co-worker who can’t figure out the microwave and consistently sets shit on fire.

11. The Eater
The slow chewing woman that has just moved into the cube behind me.

9:00 Bagel so toasted that it sounds like she is eating a giant crouton.
11:00 A hearts of romaine salad that is the size of a mixing bowl.
12:00 Warms up last nights smelly left overs
1:00 Walk
2:00 Finishes off the rest of giant salad
3:00…

I appreciate your response, and I would like to say to you that I am a proponent of the spectrum. My life experience, and my family specifically, have proven that to me over and over again.

MWAHAHAHA I’m glad you asked.

but much worse he talks bad about me to our four year old daughter.

This is completely right.

For the same reasons you described is why the planned Dorian Gray gender-swap won’t work, as the social mores of the Victorian/Edwardian period were such that the homosexual subplots and subtext that were prevalent throughout the book would be lost, as there were no penalties for lesbian…

If I were Italian-American I would not object to this. Columbus is less and less a fuzzy warm historical figure who sailed with 3 cutesy named ships, and more (rightfully so) a destructive imperialist mass murdering slaver.

Thing is, Lord of the Flies was a response to a particular conceit of British pulp novels which depicted young boys/men being stranded as a fun adventure with little internal conflict. Golding took the subject of entitled British boarding school boys and the kind of savagery he saw in how they acted with each other…

Why don’t they just make a film of Marianne Wiggin’s “John Dollar,” often described as a female “Lord of the Flies”?

Exactly- keep the aggression exactly as-is. Don’t change it to talking behind someone else’s back and slap fights. Keep it utterly brutal and show us why that makes us so much more uncomfortable when it’s girls instead of boys. Make us interrogate our own assumptions and stereotypes.

If it was a straight-up swap, I’d see it— I love that freakin book, and human savagery is a timeless topic. Would love to see power go wrong in Girlworld and turn to bloody piggy murder. It certainly could work.

I WANT this letter to turn out to be, “the co-worker wants to be taken more seriously but she dresses like Molly Weasley got caught by a tornado in a Laura Ashley outlet mall, and it’s hard for some people to see the BAMF under all the princess-cut calico ruffles. How can I suggest that she dress more Pulp Fiction,…

I thought about this too, but nobody in a situation like this would use the word “nice” to mean “overdressed...” they would say “overdressed.” Or “she wore a wedding dress with a 30 foot train and carried an open parasol at all times,” or “$80,000 worth of jewelry per pierced hole,” or “an all-white penguin tux with a…

In my experience as a manager who deals with these issues on occasion, lately people seem to use the word “nice” as polite-speak for increasingly tight, revealing outfits that might be vaguely styled as business attire.

Maybe twenty years ago I was a section head at a prestigeous national lab with maybe fifteen or twenty people reporting to group heads - really technical leads, not managers - who in turn reported to me. A young woman in one of those groups wore a jumpsuit that would have been totally okay had you not been able to see…

Why do people think they need to sidestep HR? HR is there to keep the company from being sued for sexual harassment when they take it upon themselves to tell a co-worker she’s just too sexy for this job.