Not really- there are plenty of jobs where a certification is required for base pay. Processing annuities? Need your Series 6. LOMA for insurance, passing the Bar for law, multiple medical certs depending on specialty, a CPA, LPN or RN for nursing, etc.

Have you been pregnant, sweetheart? No amount of money or resources will end your nausea, will stop your tits from aching every time your bra brushes them, or will guarantee an easy delivery. That’s biological discomfort and it is a “REAL problem.”

Hey! I loved fearmongering about Dram Shop laws (not really, they’re horrible, yet effective). When I taught, the math was the worst. Nothing like a room of 30 grown adults going slack-jawed when you ask “Now, if a 40 proof ‘drink’ is 1.5oz and there’s five .75oz parts in this Long Island recipe, how many ‘drinks’ are…

From 14 years in commercial foodservice, the requirement is that there is one onsite resource that has taken the 16 hour certification- usually your Executive Chef or Culinary Director. The rest is largely up to the location/ company, and I’ve never encountered anyone that paid for ServSafe Food or Alcohol out of…

I don’t know why it’s so difficult for some people to get that Spears could have family looking to grift her AND that she probably still needed (needs) some form of conservatorship and inpatient care.

I’ve only lived as high as the 14th floor (the highest the building went) and I absolutely LOVED it compared to “ground dwelling,” as the author puts it. You got the views, the sunrise, insects were nonexistent, etc. Our building also had a lot of the services you mentioned- gated access, undergeound parking so you…

Despite what you may think from tech startup after tech startup, the vast majority of businesses- many of whom handle very sensitive data- don’t have robust IT infrastructure, which extends to their employees. Architects and engineers gravitate to the hot jobs, leaving financial, medical and insurance services hanging…

It’s likely a BIT more than that. Disclosure: I spent over a decade as a product SME installing and advising on digital menus and wayfinding in commercial foodservice.

If you can’t afford over $20 for at minimum three people, then you can’t afford to eat out, period. Product and labor costs are through the roof. No one but a place with a dollar menu is catering to cheap folks- THEY can't afford it.

Agreed, but to be fair what did anyone expect to happen when the response to a white (or straight, cis) person asking “why” in good faith was overwhelmingly, “I won’t educate you look it up and also why aren’t you advocating for me loudly whenever you can but also shut up but also why aren’t you SAYING anything?” Ask…

What people also miss about places like this is the larger support staffing model which absolutely DOES drive your labor through the roof (source: 14 years of management/ foodservice offer development).

Picard has moments of brilliance weighted down by the horribly paced plot and by some new/ old characters that could have gone the distance.

Welp, judging by the cast, super white (and common for the time) Rydell has a new host of racial diversity that will magically disappear four years later. I wonder if the Black Cheerleader will experience Difficulties While Black? Will the Japanese American have to deal with the predjuces of a high school and country…

Oh God, chicken washers. I’ve repeatedly told folks that getting caught washing chicken and transferring it to another surface has caused commercial businesses to fail food safety audits, but it’s always “I' mma wash this chicken; that’s how you know it’s clean.”

Well that was an interesting way to dance around “we don’t get game previews anymore; here’s a content roundup.”

And realistically, what COULD she have done? It was thought for years that she should have just gone away into the shadows. Now she was supposed to have advocated for herself against a public that was at best lukewarm? You don’t have to respect “The Firm” but at least CPB is smart enough to know how to operate within…

Same here. The water sequences where the kids are exploring/ bonding/ learning were the most engaging and visually arresting (granted, I saw in 3D so am partially evaluating based on the 3D sequences). The film hits the viewer over the head with the notion that Kiri will likely be the next Jake (outsider with…

Helloski, Russian girl-o-vich!

With Whoopi specifically, she’s put her foot in her mouth more than once before and in every instance has this tendency to double down or resort to technicalities. She isn’t TECHNICALLY incorrect in her statements, but she’s been to this rodeo enough times to be a recurring act.

This reminds me of Michael Jordan in the 90s and until his divorce in 2006. Bartended/ waited for him several times- he was the kind of guy that tipped $100 on a $7 beer, and I remember him apologizing one night when I was mobbed by guests in the bathroom, at sidestands, etc- all asking me to get his permission for…