Can’t say I know the details, since I was the supporting admin for the whole office, and I don’t believe we looked into those contracts, other than to confirm they were legally allowed to work. (We’d have to record if they were H1-B, which is how I know) The rates were already high when they came to us, and we…

I’m not well versed in H1-B visas and their use, but when I worked for an IT recruiting firm (which had loooots of H1-Bs), they were usually the most expensive candidates. Typically the visa workers would have a sponsorship company, which kept them employed regardless, and their hourly cut, combined with our recruiter…

Omg, as I read through these, I remembered mine. I was in middle school and this was during the heyday of AIM. My teenage brain thought it would be a grand idea to pretend to be someone else on AIM and get a boy in my class to fall in love with her. I pretend to be Katie, the friend of an actual friend of mine, who…

I have definitely saved shells from making a shrimp pastel and then fried them. It’s crazy delicious! I started eating the shells after my husband did it and decided to try it. It really is nice (I nix the tail) and saves the trouble of separating it.

Thanks. I’m trying to impart that level of introspection on other wypipo...cuz they’re not getting it. Truth be told, a “white fantasy land” (my term for those kinds of white neighborhoods) is pretty unnerving because it looks like a corporate design come to life. It doesn’t feel organic and definitely reads as a…

I moved from Chicago to a pretty black neighborhood in DC. I noticed that the grocery store check-out line was mostly magazines like Ebony or Black Hair. When I was in a hospital waiting room, the magazines were mostly black culture focused. My thought: “Huh, that’s what it feels like when something is not intended…

I work at a mandatory bar. The document in question is what attorneys use to register with the bar after swearing-in. It’s purely an intake document used internally (sometimes in disciplinary proceedings). I can’t imagine this registration document gave her any professional advantage since it’s used mostly like a…

I loved the fireworks bc it meant I didn’t have to go to the lake! I didn’t love that it went from the afternoon on the 3rd until 2am on the 4th, but I didn’t do a goddamn thing about it.

Seconded. I always repent if I do not read it on Friday...like right now.

Not that I’m a Nicki fan, but she does do near rhyming for “Medusa” and “producer”, as well as “Supahead” and “super bread”. She uses this technique frequently. I’m not a fan, nor do I think the rhyme scheme is particularly good regardless.

Apparently the irony of calling about a black man referencing lyrics to a song about the police being a black man’s biggest problem is completely lost on the caller. (Not a whole lot of white people really listen to Jay-Z’s lyrics because that message isn’t hidden at all...)

My high school did a “Genocide Week” that taught us the horrors of the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide, among others. The one story that has forever been seared in my mind is when Jews hid in latrines to escape being gassed. I think of this literally every time I have to use a port-a-potty or latrine. It’s been over…

I found out about the rest from my mom who was overly casual about it. “Oh, you should read this article.” I finished it and said, “So this is who you were trying to set me up with?” lol

It’s hard to choose which one...

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I laughed at urea. My daughter went to daycare in Silver Spring for a few years. She picked up the DC accent on certain words like water and tell - my husband and I are Midwesterners. I moved away from PG County recently and it makes me smile every time I hear it in her tiny, muppet-like voice.

The complaint reminded me of an email I received through my work at a state mandatory bar. This woman was clearly having hallucinations because it didn’t make much sense, but I’ll never forget the claim that her sister’s boyfriend put kittens down the garbage disposal. Is there a kitten and mental illness connection?

I was not neglectful of my oral health - I brushed regularly and flossed occasionally - but forgot to see a dentist for years. I was also an enthusiastic and frequent drinker of orange juice. I had 8 deep cavities and a root canal (later a second one bc it got an abscess). I radically reduced the sugar in my diet, cut…

I was 16 and hadn’t dated anyone yet. It started to feel like I was never going to have mutual interest. Then this guy pursued me hard. I was kinda meh on it, but in the end, I figured this would be a good way to get the first boyfriend stigma over with. We dated for a month and I broke up with him. Not realizing I…

Teen Spirit gives off Neon Demon vibes. It looks visually similar and it has the same lead...