Contracted/outsourcing is how they get away with it. They don’t know or care what someone is getting paid, that’s up to someone else.

Was going to say this. I’m currently employed at a big, private East Coast university. I’ve seen (outsourced) food service workers come on board at the lowest level of university employee and be grateful for the improved pay, bennies and job security. Unions FTW!

Considering Harvard itself notes that they make $33.8k a year and the union is asking for merely $35k, things are a bit more bleak when considered on annual terms. Granted, the benefits are pretty nice comparatively.

I appreciate and respect the sentiment, the bravery, and the integrity in taking a stand even in the face of violent opposition.

And Ben Carson is simultaneously a legitimately renowned neurosurgeon and a fucking moron.

“I don’t immediately jump to molesting her. I wait 10 years. But so we’re clear, I’ve called dibs on that.”

Meanwhile, Kathie Lee Gifford doesn’t even want Bush to “throw” the show to her and co-host Hoda Kotb. “She has Jesus in her life and feels this is just not right,” we’re told.

Take a read of this article. Whether you agree with the premise that this will destroy the Reps or not, it’s a pretty high level but cogent take on the modern GOP history. http://qz.com/805918/why-donald-trumps-access-hollywood-tape-was-the-last-straw-for-paul-ryan-and-the-gop/

it was his word salad when trying to sound compassionate for soldiers. he still thinks the ones who commit suicide are weak and just can’t handle it.

“At least he doesn’t LIE to us and try to cover stuff up like Crooked Hillary! He tells it like it is, I don’t have to agree with everything he says!”

If my FB feed (which, admittedly, loses at least a couple people a day now) is any indication, they will vehemently defend Trump choice of words and tell you how Hillary Clinton wants to eat every soldiers first born child.

I’m a sober person and let me tell you, sometimes I’m a really shitty parent. So drop the judgement.

Many parent on Jez drink alchohol. I bet they’d be suprised to realize that makes them shitty parents.

After last night, I literally cannot wrap my mind around the idea that any sane person would think he is qualified to serve as president. He’s the worst sort of thin-skinned, narcissistic, no-nothing bully.

I have an uncle who’s a bully and nothing unnerves him more than just calmly staring at him in response to whatever he’s spewing. Occasionally saying, “it’s interesting you feel that way” without looking or sounding interested bothers him too.

I totally agree. I was once dating a guy who just out of the blue hit one of my cats really hard in a fit of frustration and I broke it off right then and there. Not that children and cats are totally the same thing but they were *my* babies and still are and it was never will I ever tolerate type of thing for me.

No shit. I didn’t set foot outside my apartment from Monday until Friday last week, and I only went outside Friday because I knew I had some eyeshadow waiting for me in my mailbox downstairs. I regularly get home Friday evening and hole up until Monday morning when I have to go to work. It’s one of my favorite things…

24 hours doesn’t seem like an alarmingly long time to stay inside. My neighbors would be calling the police on me during every Law & Order marathon

We had a beloved adorable goofball smell-roy chocolate lab that my dad named Mike (I wanted to name him Hershey. GET IT?). As an adult Mike weighed in, conservatively, at 130 pounds. His head measured slightly larger than a basketball, his bark would shake the rafters, and the only way he could move was to galumph.…