I only know one person who is a longtime employee at RTR and he is a gay man, but definitely a mean girl in his own precious way <3 He’s been there a long time though, and has a knack for ending up on the inside of cliques, so I suspect I’ve never heard stories about him being miserable because he is probs making…

This happened to a coworker of mine, who was extended an offer while almost 6 months pregnant. Our whole team at the time, including our boss, were all 30 or under, none of us had kids, and we were academically surprised and personally horrified to discover that there is no guaranteed leave AT ALL if you’ve been…

Yeah, I asked my mom after we both read this if my daycare in NYC had been licensed (similar situation—she chose something around the corner from her office that all the other moms in her law firm used) and she said she didn’t think she’d ever actually checked. Which was surprising to me from a woman who would only…

No, definitely not. But generally speaking, unless someone makes a complaint or something bad happens, they can operate under the radar for a long time. This is the NYT article from when the center where this little boy died was shut down, which explains it a bit better—she had been operating out of her apartment for…

When I first moved to the city, I was super broke and worked a few extra hours a day covering the single most difficult-to-cover shift in working parent life: the 2-3 hours between when daycare ends and work ends. The woman I babysat for was a high-powered corporate lawyer who had just started a new job as an in-house…

A surprising number of them in New York aren’t. Which means that you have highly educated, professional adults recommending places to their friends and colleagues, and often, people don’t look into it.

THE ABSOLUTE WORST.

One of my favorite Getty Images games is to go through and find all the celebs whose shoes don’t fit. There are a few reasons, but generally it’s either that they only had a particular size available to borrow on short notice for a particular look, or that the stylist got the shoe a size larger for a long red carpet…

Amand*LA* Stenberg. Not Amanda. Beware lest the Twitter hordes find ye.

Unsurprisingly, we can thank the French for developing exactly this and putting it into action.

Revenue. Because it’s larger.

Yeah...you know what small children who love Pippi Longstocking DON’T love? Having to be very quiet and careful and not touch anything in museums. I am totes fine with this. Plenty of adults have fond memories of the series and will want to see it and appreciate it as its meant.

Derp I literally just commented this. Given where I was living when I had this revelation I was...24? And had been hearing it my whole life? Ugh.

I will never forget the first time I heard a Sleepy’s commercial, slightly drunk, and thought, oh my god—trust Sleepy’s for the rest of your life (be a lifetime customer)...and for the REST of your life (because it will be THE GREATEST SLEEP EVER) It’s like the first time you see the arrow in the FedEx logo. Can never…

I was thinking about exactly this, after reading Hoge’s story. I Googled him (because how could you not) and, well...I think that is a unique case where telling someone they are beautiful would set off a kid’s bullshit meter in a very particular way. For a kid who is simple normal/average looking, I think it’s so…

I’m single, but am on the other side of this with a close male friend who happens to be someone I used to date. Was, in fact, the person he was dating when he met his now-wife. We never stopped hanging out, but it took several years for her to be okay with it—she pretended she had never met me every time we saw each…

I woke up fairly hungover on November 3rd and walked out of my apartment to go to work and the first thing I saw a lady with an “I Voted!” sticker. In my maybe-still-drunk state, I thought “holy shit, that wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought!”

I think this is a smart, logical decision. A franchise like that, with a big event attached, is a big branding opportunity to give up, so it must have really been a nightmare internally. Hopefully they’ll remain conscious of the fact that visibility on lists like these IS important, and make an effort to include as…

Well, yes and no. Kate Winslet was not actually there to talk about money. She was there to promote her movie, and she was asked a question that she was not comfortable answering to the world at large.

My ethics prof in college used to ask a milder version of the same question—if you were driving along the road in the middle of nowhere, nothing around for miles, and you came to a red light, would you stop and wait for it to change? Or would you keep driving?