does stepping outside mean going to the hospital cafe or actually leaving campus? I figure the employees I see at the hospital lunchroom/cafe aren’t urgent care workers. Thinking about the hospital I’m most familiar with, the ER is actually kind of a good distance from the lunchroom.

I’m going to suggest that an executive who doesn’t figure out a way for his/her executive assistant to take a break is a dreadful boss (and person). At my old office, they had someone from the mailroom sit at reception and answer phones so the regular gal could get a break.

Ditto for the folks actually making the food. I know people who work in high-end fancy restaurants, where “family meal” is supposed to the norm. Except, they don’t always have enough food for everyone. And some days they don’t have it. I mean, how messed up is it that a line cooksat high end restaurants will end up…

My old workplace used to have these lovely lunch rooms on every floor. Big windows. Multiple tables. Soda fountains, free coffee/tea. Eventually they consolidated all the offices to one floor, rented out the old space, and the lunch room this incredibly depressing interior office with two tables and a vending machine.…

This galls me. I’ve never worked at a company where 9-5 didn’t include a lunch hour. So, a standard work week has always been 35 hours for me. I know people who have to make up the hour, and we worked in the same state, and were all salaried. So WTF? I sometimes had to work late, because that’s what being on salary…

doesn’t your workplace have people to cover? I mean, I get that if you’re working in the ER and a big emergency comes in you’re going to cut short a a lunch break, but that’s not every day right? .

you could eat a sandwich you bring from home. Though, it won’t get you home any faster. I used to track how much money I spent on buying lunch when I worked in an office. It was a real eye opener. Even $10 a day on an inexpensive sandwich, chips and a drink adds up over a month.

You know what else is worth remembering? When layoffs come around, ain’t no one - your manager, the head of your division, the head of HR - going to say “Ms. Salami always works through her lunch so she’s definitely not one of our human resources we can do without!”

I think it was Sweden that gave X number of weeks paid time, and required both partners to take some of the time or else they lost some of the time. So effectively, men had to take at least 2 weeks or the couple lost paid the time. Prior to that it was just X number of weeks, regardless of who took the time. I’ve…

I think it’s more common for couples to stagger the time. If they are both using the 12 weeks of FMLA, and they can afford it, staggering means not having to pay for childcare for the first six months. (Not sure, but daycare might require a baby to be a certain age anyway).

I’d hazard a guess that companies like Facebook are the exception, and their paid family leave policies seem driven more by a need to compete for talent than being decent (IMO). I’m pretty skeptical that the majority of desk jockeys that can do their job with a phone line, a high speed internet connection, and a…

Lots of people who don’t “have” to hunt to eat do so because a butchered deer in the freezer reduces their food costs.

But actually right now we’re not talking about kids. We’re talking about your misunderstanding that a cup user has to empty the cup in a sink (no) and your misunderstanding that the end result is blood covered hands that cup users have to smear all over door handles, faucets, etc. (no). I’m not suggesting in any way…

actually, you don’t. Firstly, if you’re not a heavy bleeder and you’ve inserted it right, you won’t have any leaks or be dealing with an overflowing cup, which is when I notice I’m dealing with more of a mess than I’d like. Secondly, you can simply pull some toilet paper to wipe your hands, the outside of the cup,…

You know, how heavy you in comparison to others is hard to judge. A menstrual cup really clarified for me that something was wrong wrong wrong and it was getting worse. I switched to the cup because I found using OB Super Plus and a massive pad wasn’t enough. It was good for awhile. And then it started getting worse.…

I had to wait until I could fathom sticking something in my vagina! I can’t imagine today’s 12 year-olds are any less freaked out by that idea than I was a generation ago.

My gynecologist saw no problem with it.

to be fair, you don’t empty the cup in to a sink. You dump it in the toilet. You don’t need to rinse out either. You can use toilet paper to wipe up excess blood.

Commercial real estate in that area is going to run anywhere between $15-25K a month to rent. Maybe more. I’ve only looked at one website to make a stab at how much it would cost to rent commercial space (City Feet). Even if there are 10 desnudas (are there?) not all of them are likely to use the space. I also would…

Pretty sure the cost of commercial space makes that idea not very economically viable.