Mine used to routinely set off metal detectors, and I got a full-on boob-grab at Shannon Airport several years ago as a result (although my friend Tim got some aul’ fella’s hands up in his business for his troubles, though they were fairly amiably chatting about accordions all the while so I guess it didn’t bother him…

HIPAA isn’t just “healthcare providers” — its covered entities and business partners as well. The staff absolutely fall under the “covered entity” and every single one of them is subject to HIPAA laws.

Good luck a) getting pregnant and b) not having a child with birth defects. Tail-end longevity has no impact on when women are maximally fertile.

Hey, fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke!

I worked in the children’s room at a library when I was in high school. The library building was very old (probably mid-Victorian era) and one year they were refurbishing the ancient elevator, so there was all this construction and electrical work going on. One fine Saturday, the fire alarm went off and the room began…

You sound fun.

Depends on the state, but larceny is once it kicks up over $500-$1000

Retail-esque: I work at a farmers market on Saturdays. The market runs from 9am to 1pm. Even for the hipster brunch hangover crowd, 1pm is a good, attainable boundary. Every single fucking week we have people rolling in at 1:15, while we are clearly packing up crates of vegetables, taking tables down, etc. trying to…

Power-tripping assholes be power-tripping. The corporate world is easily as vile and possibly more insidious because of how easy it it is to get away with it, given how much of that “communication” happens behind closed doors with no witnesses.

That would be a legitimate critique if this was not an artifact of conversing with white guys. Its a little disingenuous to say that “its not about white people” when the conversations where this manifests are specifically for a white audience. If you don’t care that people are using what you think is humility as a…

Right, that’s precisely my point. The exercise in “humility” that these guys claim they’re engaging in isn’t that at all — its supplication to a group of people who are using their own language against them, as a means of legitimizing their racism. They think they’re putting down self-deprecating humor; that is not…

I think you really don’t understand what racism is. Racism is not “being picked on” for having a different skin color, or hair texture, or facial features. It doesn’t stop once kids grow out of that phase of their life. You vastly understate — and understand — the pernicious evil of internalized concepts of inherent…

There is an ocean of difference between humility and submission. OPs contention, if I understand her correctly, is that what is intended as humility is being taken as permission for people to treat you like shit while you laugh “with” them — which gives them even more permission. That can’t possibly be the intent. Can…

If your audience doesn’t understand that, then your message is not getting through. The OP here is telling you that what you are intending as mocking a stereotype is taken as permission to perpetuate them by the very people you are “confronting”. Is that really the intent?

No need to get pissy, nobody (that I can find) said they charge by weight, but they do occasionally weigh passengers; it usually hits the news when that happens because people are offended by it. Some airlines will require that you buy two seats if you’re too big to fit into one.

How is it illegal? Airlines in the US already occasionally do this.

Flu shot instead of her first dose. She went back for the second, they probably did a urine pregnancy screen in advance of the second, and got the bad news.

That’s actually known as Eggs Oscar.

They’re filming in Boston, which is where Tufts Medical Center is, so...

Is that John Slattery? It is, you can tell us.