Head phones and a limited amount of banal small talk. I work in a super square environment and I find shirt chats in the kitchen while getting tea or water seem to be enough. I am seen as hard-working when really I just do not want to talk about investment portfolios and private elementary schools.

As a former receptionist who married the manager of another department at my work place, GO FOR IT! Granted, we got together in a sideways kind of way (work happy hour scheduled, weather was crap and we were the only two people who showed), we kept things quiet at work. Everyone knew we were friendly, but it was a…

I posted in this thread about the importance of enjoying your full compensation package, which includes PTO. What I have found is helpful is establishing a culture onto yourself. Stating what you will do (take your vacation) while also enforcing that you will get your work done. My current position has a job…

I commend your husband. I am also supremely jealous of him (being at home, not the playing video games part).

And while you are at it, take all of your damn Personal time off, if you are lucky enough to have it. I have been evangelical about this for years and the amount of blow back I get from people is crazy. Your time off is part of your compensation. Would you hand your employer back one whole paycheck a year in the name…

One of my friends has a freelance editing business and works from home. With her first, she cut back on contracts but thought she could work part time because”babies sleep a lot”. She ended up hiring a person to do the work for her.

Amazing.

Well, I did end up dumping him on a street corner about an hour's bus ride from his house, so... 😊

There you go. My husband is far more conventionally attractive than I am. To the point where, for years now, I have introduced him to people and had them straight up react, “He’s your husband?!” They also don’t really know that although he is traditionally attractive, he is just not a very conventional person in…

Man, I think a lot of candidates do though. Look at how many of them have had absent parent, either because of hard core jobs or just general family discord. I mean, I feel like Bill Clinton’s whole M.O. was, “I need love.” W. was looking to show up his pops. If you want/need that much power in life, you are probably…

Oh, I have stellar hearing. I can hear a bug fart across the house, but I am super noise sensitive and prefer to watch tv on low volume with subtitles on, so maybe I have just picked up some lip reading without knowing?

Oh God, thank you. That always drives me nuts. The footage is grainy at a distance, but when you zoom in, it’s SUPER clear. Just like how your eyes work, not like how pictures work.

I wouldn’t mess with that job, but she might be the bright, shining light for some very sheltered kids to start thinking for themselves.

And I assume what they are doing here is giving her a chance to audition for the VP spot.

I have never understood a word Ryan Phillipe has said. He does that thing where he looks down or away fromt he camera nad then talks. I don’t know, maybe I actually read lips?

I didn’t fall in. I jumped in. The date on the IV. Interesting. Supposing that Bristol got knocked up in Vegas having trashy Valentine’s Day ex with some random? Yeah, I don’t know, remember what happened to Prince Harry in Vegas? Seems too chancy.

When I was in college, I frequently babysat for my cousins, who were 14 and 15 years younger than me. In more than one occasion I had some middle aged cow come up and start lecturing me on how I was a slut or how I needed to keep my legs shut or how her tax dollars were raising my children. I would generally let them…

Well, considering the state of the racial gap in income in our “nice” state, probably marketing to the people who want luxury goods. :(

I hope it turns out to be whatever you want it to be!

YES! The Bayless sauces are really good. I can’t stand things that are too salty. Those packets have flavor instead of just the boring taste of sodium.