I am super jealous anyway, so none of my friends are getting invited until I am satisfied with our snuggling.

I adopted a cat today from the Humane Society!!!!!

Is there any way you can try to be reassigned to someone else? If not, I think you should try to find another job. I was in a similar situation for most of 2015 - absolutely miserable at work, crying in the morning as I left, constantly fraught with anxiety, suicidal ideation, etc. It worked real damage on my…

So my recent re-watch of Law and Order: SVU, which I’m enjoying very much (now in Season Fifteen) has led to an unanticipated side effect. I have developed a HUGE FREAKING CRUSH on Mariska Hargitay! Should’ve realized this was coming that day I put it down to hormones that her beauty made me cry... okay that was…

“Why is there no oversight?”

The GOP has been slashing budgets for virtually any kind of oversight anywhere and hence, there is virtually *no oversight* left.

At least 50 workers...have been terminated.

As a social worker, FUCK THESE GUYS.

Because some people are Monsters who should never be trusted with an ounce of power, especially power over vulnerable people.

Yeah, and if I DO take my lunch break and choose to spend that half-hour with a book in my face, that means leave me the fuck alone, I am reading.

Well thank goodness you made sure to point out some of us do not have the option. Full time: Exec Assistant and Reception at a small real estate office - there IS no one else. Part time: radio - again, no breaks. So how about an article about how the American people have squandered all of their “worker’s rights” by…

This is what I do too. I mostly eat my lunch at my desk but I spend that time reading some articles I’ve saved up in open tabs from the morning or surf Pinterest or read advice columns. Some days I take a walk to a Chop’t that’s further from my office and that takes up more time. I have a salaried desk job that…

I’m a salaried worker and haven’t had a strict half hour for lunch since I worked retail back in college. I eat at my desk because I always bring my lunch from home and our company lunchroom is sad and kind of gross, but I don’t work while I eat. I surf the web, chat with coworkers, etc. Sometimes lunch is 30 minutes,…

I don’t take a lunch break because my asshole company wants me to stop the clock while I’m lunching, so a “9 to 5" is really either an “8 to 5" or “9 to 6.” I have a family and other parts of my life that I like a lot, lot more than my job, and I have a commute through some of the worst traffic in the country. I grew…

Yeah, I’ll leave the patient bleeding in the chair while I go eat leftovers from last night.

Good Idea: Paid telecommuting options should be expanded for new parents (particularly women) so that employers cannot use an experience differential to justify a pay gap.

The only people who suggest this are people who've never taken care of an infant 24/7. Having taken care of 3 of them it just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.

I LOVE how people just casually suggest that working from home is equivalent to maternity leave, like it’s so easy to work while caring for a newborn. The first three months with my second born were so intense that taking a shower felt like a major accomplishment.

My former roommate was in a historically African American sorority at Howard and they actually like, did cool stuff for their community and even though she’s in her 30s and long graduated, she still does chapter meet ups with sisters in her current town and organizes volunteer stuff. It was cool to hear her talk about…

aaah the old fake brothel law, eh? i kid i kid, but i remember that being the “reason” there weren’t sorority houses in my college town.

There’s a world of difference between reading a good book by an author who happens to be a woman of color, telling people about that book and recommending it to others; and publicly proclaiming your intention to avoid books by straight white men to score enlightenment points.