If I ever meet her, I'm going to put quarters EVERYWHERE.

No mandatory paid sick leave due to a culture where wealth is deified, and the poor can pretty much go fuck themselves.

I am so sorry about that. I worked with this terrific sales woman who had diabetes and would need time off to go the doctor. She was fired for taking because the manager is an asshole. They don't want moochers but they refuse to work with you. On a side note I cannot stand the smell of Subway and walking by one in the…

Many many moons ago when I was working in retail one of my coworkers who had been there for years and was a really good employee was warned that she was about to be let go if she used anymore for six days. Note: she had only used some of her sick days. But management decided even though she had a doctors note she was…

Sorry this happened to you...shameful.

I've got some kind of IBS (and I know to a lot of people that's a blanket term for bullshit, but I don't have the money or the time to get extensive testing and have it diagnosed beyond IBS right now). Using the bathroom every hour makes employers definitely think you're using drugs or hungover, and it's a pain in the…

It's a joke that food service workers are forbidden by law to work when they're sick. I've had several food service jobs and any time I tried to call in sick the manager told me to take some benadryl or pepto and suck it up or don't bother coming in when I recover. Especially on days when they anticipate a lot of…

This is the Comcast cancel call equivalent in nightclub booking.

If we're going to be real here, I think a lot of the issue stems from the shitty economy over the last few years as you state.

Yeah, except now they're teaching you that you better really enjoy the four-or-so years you spend hitting the books, 'cause afterwards you're going to be right back at that shitty job. Minus 4 years of incremental raises and a promotion to night shift manager.

A FEW THINGS ON NINJA WARRIOR:

We are weird, in that we are the chosen ones, the best that have ever lived, those that all else aspire to be.

"As a Jew, and as someone who has been raised to always support Israel (which, according to my parents, is my spiritual home, although I have never been)"

I am very disappointed by this correction. The one bright point of this story was that I learned there was a college called Groucher, and you have taken that away from me.

ALL OF THIS.

After reading the horrible comments questioning the existence of certified service dogs, I was appalled at people's indifference to those with disabilities. Then I thought about if for a moment and became less surprised - if this girl had a physical disability, there would be only positive comments for her. But she…

Because it's not a pet, it's a service dog. You are not required to stow a certified service dog in a cart. Just because it's "not that hard" to do so doesn't mean that it's unreasonable to refuse to do so. It's her right to have her service dog accompany her how she sees fit.

"If you had just gone to college ..."

Oh, FUCK YOU, lady. Fuck you so hard. Meanwhile Ellie Moore, you and I are BFF's now. It is decided.

The only time anyone ever dared to make a remark like this to me, I was working at Eddie Bauer on a morning shift. Some lady took umbrage to my (corporate mandated), "Wool socks are…