I’m totally on this cottage cheese train. It needs either toast or some kind of crunchy/chewy topping though. I ate it with trail mix every morning when I was pregnant with my son, who’s now 11 and is super smart, athletic, and musical. Miracle genius food!

I’ve made that at home, it’s not bad.

Me too, because I was raised by civilized people.

But it’s so baaaaad for you because TOXINS. It’s made out of baby penguins too.

People can joke all they want about the “ordering a burger with a diet coke” thing, but hey, I figure I’ve avoided about 10000000000 calories over the course of my life that way. Yes to the salad at Chipotle—only way to go. With guac, obvi.

Any pregnancy discrimination claim? Even one without any supporting facts, or where the employer can show that the claimant is objectively full of shit?

Punitives are fine— the facts here, as plaintiff presented them, clearly show malice. But $185M in a single plaintiff case is nuts. Would love to hear how they came up with that.

My daughter totally did that when she was little, but she kind of waited and it was super out of context. Just randomly one day, it was like “fark!” It’s actually easier now that they’re bigger and they just know they’ll get busted (even though that’s obviously hypocritical of me given that I swear like a drunken…

Well the commenter thought they just agreed to pay the $185M, which they didn’t. I really think this article should be revised, it’s ridiculous. As was the verdict.

No of course not— that’s absurd for a single plaintiff case. It’s monopoly money to juries. I mean, why stop there. Why not $185 billion? Why not eleventy trillion squillion? Because $5M, $10M wouldn’t have “sent a message”? That’s why this stuff gets stuck in appeals forever. But I’m telling you, this stuff is…

EPLI policies don’t cover punitives (as our carrier is always reminding me), so it’s doubtful that their carry agreed to pay anything over whatever the compensatory damages verdict was.

It’s clear to me, but I work in this field.

No, because they settled for an amount way less, and her lawyers will take up to about 40%. She will still get a ton.

Because they settled with her for an amount way less. Every settlement comes with a “dismissal” of the case, and that includes appeals. They were just really unclear about it in these stories.

Clearly. I wonder why they didn’t do some kind of press release to avoid the implication that they paid the $185M. I wonder if that was part of the agreement.

It’s obviously a settlement- they’re not getting the $185M. I don’t know why they haven’t disclosed that part instead making it sound like they just “dropped their appeal.”

I dunno. I tend to think the best way to be a mom and still work is to have a kick ass resume and background— that’s your leverage, and the plan sometimes doesn’t reveal itself until much later. Plus you want options. Who wants to spend all of their 20s in something “family friendly” if that’s not what they really…

I always say about my job, keeps me off the streets. I would be a shitty SAHM. Can’t stand school volunteering unless it’s in my kids’ actual rooms and even then I don’t love it. And I don’t like working out more than an hour a day. I would probably take off and travel, but then my kids would be even more neglected…

I think the real story is the rich are getting richer, many women with super high level educations and occupations are rich and/or married to very rich people, and when you’re that damn rich, you really don’t need two people working, and it’s sure as shit easier to have someone at home. I feel competent to make this…

I did that for awhile at a very large law firm. After my second kid they were like, um, Saltylady, how long do you plan on being part time? You know your hours last year weren’t great. Hello, I was on maternity leave and I’m part time! Left at year 10, worked three days a week at a small firm for awhile (then hourly…