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You guys are walking out, right? Good. We should all be walking out.

That’s not “assault-y” that’s straight up assault. You did the right thing reporting him, and if HR doesn’t do anything, I’d talk to a lawyer.

I did a thing this week.

I have to say, unless their decision affects his academic standing let them punish him even if it seems a bit over the top. Your kid is very likely soon going to be beyond your reach to discipline (away at college, over 18)so him getting some real consequences for behavior that you say could have involved the law…

Precisely. There will come a time, and VERY soon, where the consequences of his actions will not so easily be walked away from. Let him suffer these minor punishments and pray he learns his lesson well.

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Perhaps this will be good for him in the long run. Depends on him. You mentioned what he did was illegal, so I think he might be getting off really fucking easy if he’s not under threat of going to jail or prison or getting fines. What little info you’ve provided makes it seem he’s in danger of being being an entitled…

Ooh, Good Genes! It is AMAZING and I love it so much. It has made my skin feel so much smoother and softer.

Beautiful.

Beauty thread!

This is why I left academia. I couldn’t stand the backstabbing, underlying low lying attacks and then the months upon months of just....nothingness. I couldn’t take it. It was harsh and vile. I would have gone insane.

Dear Bernd, my brother’s wife passed away several months before your husband. It is uncanny how he has said almost exactly the same words at the three month mark. Now that we are approaching that one year milestone, he is actually able to laugh again and it makes me happy to hear that. Although there are still moments…

Duuude, you have no idea. I have so much self-doubt. Just remember that the imposter complex is very prevalent (myself included). I have the issue where, as a postdoc on 2 projects, my bosses give me way too much stuff to do and then get mad when I can’t accomplish stuff. Or think exactly the way they think.

Hey everyone! I threw up all over myself in a nail salon today! At high noon, while I was getting a pedicure. It was horrible, and in front of about fifteen or twenty people. Also, it was decently violent retching, there was gagging, and it was loud. I don’t know what quite happened, one second I was looking at insta…

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I paid $1.50 for an orange at a deli today because I wanted to make a negroni tonight.

Evening beautiful Jezzies...Craft Thread!

Anyone else in academia have constant doubt and frustration? I have had a few months of being constantly attacked, ignored, and condescended to by collaborators and I really don’t know how much more I can take.

I feel like when you live under liberal democracy and the party in power in your country changes from time to time there’s a part of you that craves the relative stability of monarchy without really considering all the baggage that comes along with that. Combine that with the fact that modern (colonialist) America,…