Beat me to it!

I make no apologies for being an idiot at 20. At least I made him work, which was a bit of a shock to him.

Because I was 20, had low self-esteem, and he was cute. *shrug*

Yeah, but her community service wouldn’t have been like that. Her community service is at a preschool. I’ve worked in childcare, and that kind of thing is not at all easy, but because of her status (not as a cleb; as a person who is not an employee) she wouldn’t even have had to do the parts that make working in…

Yes. The eye make-up was the highlight. If only I could pull off a cat eye...

Probably the best attitude, really. There is a time and a place for proper usage, absolutely, and knowing it and practicing it has great value. But actors on talk shows? Nah. Besides, studies have shown that a few verbal tics like this can make a speaker more likable and relateable. Which is a huge part of an actor’s…

Yes, it’s really a lost cause. There are so many more worthy linguistic windmills to tilt at. You can pry the proper usage of “lie” and “lay” from my cold dead hands!

*sigh*

Yeah, the arguments just keep getting more predictable. I almost pity them while they just reveal themselves more and more to be an idiotic, angry, blind, privileged ass. No. No, I don’t.

This response is beautiful and incredibly gracious.

I know. You can see him realize that he’s being filmed, and stop smiling. He has the right to cultivate his persona however he wants, and he certainly has his reasons for picking it, but I imagine it must be exhausting to maintain that one. The fact that every single person on earth constantly carries around the…

Because childcare is a job that anyone can do with no training, duh!

Yeah, student teachers are a very different ballgame. Hell, I would rather have had a high schooler earning credit.

True confession: I have worked in child care. I kind of hated it when we had volunteers, especially when they weren’t exactly voluntary, come in to “help.” They tended to be disruptive, they weren’t allowed to help with things like diaper changes, feeding, or discipline, so I ended up not only still having to watch…

No, I don’t think there is any kind of statutory vacation time here. Many businesses don’t allow vacation for the first year, and then you start with a week and can build up from there. Often, businesses will have a system where you can build up PTO (either vacation or sick days) according to how many hours/days you…

Just one more reason to move to Sweden.

Except that the worst offenders for this sort of thing tend to be places that have little to no respect for their employees anyway, view them as a dime a dozen, and have insanely high turnover. They often don’t have well-trained employees to start with since they never keep anyone around long enough to earn much…

Your cynical (read: realistic) approach to this makes me give a resigned nod.

Don’t worry; fashion will be irrelevant as soon as my robot brethren and sistren feel the time is right, and we start by launching a — oh. Never mind. Scratch that. Robots? What robots? What take-over? Who said anything about the robots taking over and crushing all humans beneath our shiny feet? NOBODY, that’s who!

Damn. What is the good of writing snark for a blog if you can’t use it to your advantage to get your landlord to let you get a damn dishwasher? For some reason, mine seem to think that the installation of a wormhole, which will enable my kitchen to have enough room for a washer, will completely off-set the energy…