No, it’s a way to be able to travel more by doing this and PTO.

I haven’t really heard that much about employers encouraging “workcations”. I’m sure it’s happened, but most cases of “workcations” I heard about are initiated by the employee because they want a change of scenery without spending their PTO. There’s also no reason that “workcations” existing means that people need to…

I am baffled by the idea that employers love this. Sure, if they eliminated all PTO and replaced it with workcations they would love that, but I have not seen anyone actually do that, so it is a way to get an extra vacation where you still get paid but most likely are not as productive since it is bound to be…

Yeah, as far as excuses go, “I didn’t know what that word meant when I was a kid” is a pretty valid one. The way that video was edited, I couldn’t even tell she was singing along to a song... but I could definitely tell that the person who made the video didn’t want there to be any context to the chosen clips.

In food at least, a lot of business owners feel like everyone owes them cheap labor because the business was “their dream”. I had someone offer me $14/hr for an exec chef position, to which I replied “Lol, no.” and informed her that anyone actually qualified wouldn’t work for that rate. She cried that opening the…

Along with the notion that the victim should have been better prepared, and thus holds some responsibility for what was done to them.

This story is “careful what you wish for” defined. Obviously it’s good that everything turned out okay (it must have been one scary, scary time) but the idea of getting pregnant WHILE pregnant would personally make me don a hair shirt and head into the wilderness, because that is one vengeful God.

You love someone who abandoned their dog in a field because it was annoying?

This bill is supported by 59% of Republicans. “They’re from red states” is absolutely not an excuse for any of them. They ought to be falling all over themselves to vote for it as is, yesterday. This isn’t taking away guns, or banning fracking, or defunding the police, or some other controversial thing. It is the…

Maybe they should retire now while there are people to care for them so the next generation can get some jobs?

Doesn’t require justification. “I don’t wanna” is good enough.

Exactly. Even countries with incredibly generous social support systems in place have seen their birth rates drop consistently over time.

So it’s my responsibility to have a baby because I’m supposed to support other people in retirement even though I’m never going to get to have one?* I mean, I’m not one of those people who’s unwilling to pay taxes in to support the public good. I’m happy to pay a higher tax rate (obviously based on income with…

in kindergarten our teacher brought a ton of red homemade playdough for us to play with. I was sneaky-snacking on it all morning and when we went to lunch I puked it up all over the lunch room floor. they thought it was blood. it was a thing.

Is this the Harper Valley PTA?

Excuse me, but WTF is the problem? They’re married. Jesus didn’t say shit about having an OnlyFans! Being Christian must be hard.

In high school a group of friends and I once rode a bus with a guy who started yankin’ it; it horrified us at the time but nowadays it seems routine.

Not as flat out disgusting as some of the others mentioned, but points for just being bizarre I guess...

My cousin/surrogate father figure was a bus driver for New Jersey Transit for 30 years. Most of his routes ran from Philadelphia/Camden to the southern ‘burbs like Millville and Bridgeton NJ, so there was always a good mix of inner-city riders, New Jersey’s own special brand of provincials and every thing in between.

So, at the risk of “libsplaining” this is... incredibly consistent with what Biden’s been saying since he’s been campaigning. Further, average debt isn’t quite as useful as median debt — since the people with significant ($200K+) debt throws the average out of whack.