The ACA, protecting public pensions, and keeping right to work out are the only reasons I’m holding my nose and voting for Conway.

Because they operate on a sliding scale and needs funding to serve patients that cannot afford to pay. Even with the ACA there are many people that are still underinsured. Before BC was covered I got it on a sliding scale even though I was insured, because I couldn’t afford the $90/month through other pharmacies. Even…

In my last job our one day of flex time had to be used within the year or we lost it. I used to get sick a lot because I worked with kids and they are covered with germs and liked to cough directly in my face. I could not do my job if I was sick as I was usually stuck in a room full rowdy teens and forced to do the…

Wow, that is an insane story. Glad you’re around to tell it!

Sometimes it just happens. I was driving home in a rainstorm when I was a teen. I saw some standing water on my road, which is fairly normal as it tended to flood in heavy rain, I stopped my car and started to call a friend to see if I could come over until the road was clear. Suddenly I saw water POURING onto the…

It’s very after school special, trying to scare kids into thinking about the feelings of others. But it certainly doesn’t handle the issue in a way that would open up a realistic discussion about suicide and/or bullying. I recently read a YA book where a teen suffering from a terminal illness has an assisted suicide…

I had to start using adblock because the number of ads popping up were making it impossible to access websites. Slowing my computer down, making it freeze up, pages wouldn’t load properly. The ads that pop up and block the entire screen, the auto play videos that I can never find on the page to turn off. If I get a…

It’s supposed to act as a lesson to kids to get them to consider how they’re actions affect the people around them. An “issues” book. The book is still really popular and often required reading in school. I haven’t read it in years, I liked it at the time and I totally understand why teenagers like it, but yeah...…

Hahaha. My husband and I were just talking about The Smiths as some song came on our Pandora mix.

It’s also the only band I’ve ever known whose fans cannot accept that you might not like them. Prior to dating terrible Phish fans I didn’t have strong feelings about the band, it just wasn’t my thing. Phish fans are RABID. I once knew a guy who tried to fight someone at a party because the other dude didn’t like…

Ugh. Phish became dating red flag. In my experience, 100% of the time Phish fans were narcissistic assholes.

Fine, troll. A politician is a politician and she certainly is that. But, regardless of many things I could criticize her for, I do know there are important differences between a Democrat and a Republican. I also know which party is going to do better for unions, civil rights, and healthcare.

For one she championed universal healthcare decades before we got it done.

This person doesn’t seem to realize that there are ways of diffusing situations without assaulting someone. All of my friends in mental health services manage to do it.

At a certain point in my library job, once the kids know me they start self-policing and make my job so much easier. And the kids I’ve had to kick out of the library the most end up being the kids I grow closest to because we’ve had to interact with each other so much. They know they’re getting kicked out because they…

In this instance the girl was sitting quietly and looked at her cell phone. The cop never should have been called in the first place. The teacher could have handled this without support.

We don’t beat kids.

I have had the same experience as a small mousy teen librarian. Let the kids save face, but do let them know what your expectations are. When I’ve had to kick kids out of the library I’ve usually presented it as their decision, “act this way and stay, or don’t and leave. But come back tomorrow”. Usually worked. The…

I work with teens in a teen library. Typically, if a fight broke out, they would be out of their seats and running to the action. But once a woman threw her daughter down a flight of stairs outside my department. In the face of actual violent trauma, those kids sat in stone silence and didn’t look up until the…

Found it, sorry for the crazy formatting—I can’t seem to get it to be normal.