They’re trying to use this newer, more polite term when the old & ugly term is correct.

Personally, I’ve always preferred “racist dickweasel”.

When I was 18, if my mom had told me “Do this. It will help you get into college” I probably would have done it, unless it was actual physical harm to someone else. Especially for kids who’ve probably never had to do one damn thing for themselves, they wouldn’t have the slightest idea who to go to in order to report…

Judge Judy is a judgmental old biddy who thinks she knows everything and is privileged AF. Fight me.

“Hostile Work Environment” is a legal term. Being a jerk, even consistently being a jerk, does not create a “hostile work environment” unless the HWE is related to a protected class like age, gender, race, etc. If you’re an equal opportunity asshole, the workplace might be toxic, but it’s not a “hostile work…

I will go to bat for you. I will not lose my job for you. I can’t make management do the right thing for employees. I can counsel and advise, but I do not have the power to unilaterally change office culture, and I need my paycheck just as much as you do.

That’s our job. We are not advocates for the employee. We are not a separate entity sent to be a referee; we’re employees of the company, too. We have no more ownership or power than anyone else.

But that’s not sexual harassment. You can’t really use “He threatened a guy” as evidence in an SH investigation; it’s not relevant.

It would save a lot of agony if my suitor asked my father for my hand in marriage.

Because if I had any doubts I’d know for certain that suitor isn’t someone I should be spending a Tuesday afternoon with, much less the rest of my life.

Yes. This. I don’t really question DeBlasio not knowing it. I question the music director’s decision to use it a) knowing the allegations about R. Kelly and b) knowing DeBlasio will be there, along with probably some media.

Yeah,that one in thekitchen still bothers me, tho. “Hey, now you don’t have to make dinner, but you still have to work all day and then pick up takeout! Women are still required to make sure the family is fed, but whoo progress!”

Speaking as an HR Director, employers cannot prohibit employees from discussing their salaries. That is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

I totally get that people are intimidated into silence. But every worker should know that discussing their salary and working conditions with other co-workers is…

This is what gets me. A man could enter any public restroom in the US as it is. It’s not like you have to show your genitalia to get in. A dark, abandoned bathroom is a good crime scene no matter what gender the attacker is. And if there is more than one person in the bathroom and an attacker strikes, there is someone…

I just read a book about Jim Jones, and this was exactly what he did — Created a “family” in the Peoples’ Temple and isolated people from their families of origin. It strengthens the hold the leader has when leaving means not just leaving him, but leaving “brothers” and “sisters” as well.

For someone who claims to know…

Not a surprise. Calvin Klein hasn’t put out a good collection or a good runway show in at least 15 years.

Also, Kelly himself doesn’t deny that the parents believed their daughters would work with R. Kelly. There is no accusation from him that the parents offered these girls to him as sexual partners, just that the parents left them alone with them for professional benefits they might be able to get. He’s talking out of…

It also costs $0 to set a phone alarm for halfway through the night and switch places with your spouse.

It’s SO good. Not just about Baylor. It was horrifying how systems that are supposed to protect us fail us utterly.

I’m honestly not surprised that Baylor is objectively terrible. Between this story, your story about the bear (aw, poor baby!) and the Dr. Death podcast, anytime I hear Baylor’s name, I assume something terrible will be associated with it.

Eddie Johnson’s not running for anything in Chicago, at least not in this election (which is tomorrow). Garry McCarthy, former police superintendent, is.

Yes, that can sometimes happen. That’s why a good HR team will have documentation as to how layoff decisions were made so they can argue (if necessary) that while the layoff may have affected a protected class, it wasn’t because they were a protected class.