Yelp is less than useless. They're shady and people abuse the hell out of how much power Yelp has over small businesses. Burger King doesn't give a shit if a location has bad Yelp reviews, but it can kill a small family owned restaurant. These people deserve the douchebag crown for pulling out the "negative Yelp…

My husband describes the whole two hour experience as if the entire staff had never been inside of a restaurant before and had no idea how typical restaurant experiences were supposed to work. Or drugs.

Me too, sweetie. Me too.

awww :-) Thanks for saying that.

I don't know if this will be helpful to you, but it was helpful to me: I don't think of depression as my real feelings and the struggle to act differently as being fake. I see my depression as a state in which I can't access all my feelings, and I work to regain that access, the way an athlete, after an injury, will…

When I was in school, the teachers were the only ones who would go to bat for those of us who were being bullied. Administration did not give a shit, but our teachers definitely did.

I'm sorry, honey. I've been there so many times, too. People think I'm the happiest, smiliest, sweetest person. Deep sadness does weird things to us. But don't you ever give up. Push and pull, hard, to get to the light at the end of the tunnel. It sounds cliche but you can do it. {{~hugs~}}

I've been at home for 3 weeks, alone, because of a broken foot. i have friends, but I miss my day to day, well, anything. My facade has fallen off and I've been depressed a lot this week.

I had a tough week with it, too. Things looked up a little yesterday, and I'm hoping the cracks in the mask will smooth out again by Monday. Ugh. I feel like such an imposter.

Thanks for calling out the system. For some, the magical, in the distant future "it gets better" is just not good enough. I couldn't stand the peer pressure at my school and just left the entire bs scene at the start of my senior year and got my GED. This is so heartbreaking.

thank you for fighting, though. Honestly.

Thank you for standing up for your students. I know they appreciate that and I would have too, when I was a student being bullied.

So he outright ripped off an old, famous image he'd seen online?

Also, guys - don't feed the trolls, in general. But please really don't feed them here. This is just too sad.

Sadly, he's still around that office, but I know he was basically never allowed to be involved in planning office events again. That was all the administration could do since they themselves (via the Office Manager) approved his Black History Month event and email before it went out to all the staff!

Oh, it wasn't my event. It was a group of co-workers who were also friends. They planned something for themselves to do on their own lunch time. But, to answer your question, yeah they still had their event (of course it was the same date and time as the office event—they just didn't go).

Really? You don't feel like stressors can drive someone who's otherwise trying to stay sober to use again? I know addicts make up excuses but I've had issues with drinking in the past & I very vividly remember having those issues triggered one night by a traumatic event in my life I won't get into. It feels like…

Oh, it was intense. Black people basically stopped talking to everyone. White folks walking around feeling guilty/sad/scared. You could cut the tension with a knife. The headquarters office almost got involved. It was a mess. And again, all because one white man felt left out. It was just crazy!

No it probably smells like baby diarrhea and baby throw up.

YOU GUYS THE AP SAYS SNOOP DOGG WAS A SHARK