This is way more common than we realize, and hard to identify. One of the things to watch out for is the price being charged for services and how that compares with the facilities and prices charged by other salons in your area. There is a salon in my neighborhood charging $25 for a mani and pedi, which lasts…

You just know that these people secretly yearn for a mystical foreign land where their contempt for basic human decency would be tolerated and accepted.

What's with the moronic "it's probs different in Poland" comments? Don't you realise that makes you look like a fucking idiot? Do you think America invented physical boundaries? Do you at least know anything at all about Poland or is this your laughable idea of cultural relativism?! Jesus, some stellar idiots have…

Uh, you have an internet connection. You should be able to figure this out on your own without resorting to tired and obvious "please educate me!" trolling tactics.

They both look like topiary. Adorable, moving, panting topiary.

>when a woman gets promoted over a truly more qualified man

I have no idea what I'd do in this situation but it depresses me to think it would probably be a laugh, a raised eyebrow and then quickly getting the fuck away because I'm socially conditioned to not make a scene.

Come on now, child. You don't want to be actively stupid. You'll make people think you were born that way.

Oh, it wasn't a question.

Really, 'cause it sounds like you don't.

I don't think workplace equality will exist until parental equality is more commonplace. When women take all the mat leave (if it exists) and are more likely to stay home with their children, I don't think that true workplace equality is possible, just because they'll lose out on so many opportunities while off work.…

I am 27 years old. I manage to bleed through a tampon and ruin a pair of panties at least once a month. And it's not because I bleed heavily randomly. I just forget to change my tampon every 3-4 hours during my heavy day. But I do so EVERY SINGLE MONTH.

Is my reading comprehension shit, or did this article just tell us that there was new information, but not what the new information actually was?

That was the worst part of serving, by far. Past a certain point you are made to feel almost like a sex worker, and you can't downplay it because then you won't make as much. Only one time did I not let it slide because the tip wasn't worth it. Some greasy redneck dude grabbed my arm, and while I initially didn't do…

Tipping, when calculated as part of wages, as it is for most servers in restaurants in the U.S., is an awful, coercive, discriminatory, sexist, racist, and thoroughly appalling system that should be abolished. A waiter or waitress's livelihood should not depend on the capricious judgments of random diners. They…

How many times as a bartender have I been told to dress sexier and I'll make more money? Thousands? Probably. Always by my MALE bosses, who somehow seem to know what I need to do to make money despite the fact that I am the one earning the tips.

I agree, I never undertip based on bad or average service but I do tip more than 20 percent when it's outstanding. More disturbingly, waitstaff is often penalized for things beyond their control. If food arrives slowly or isn't cooked to standard it's often the waiter rather than the chef that suffers.

There are very few jobs in America where you are NOT self-employed, and yet your basic salary depends upon your immediate (as opposed to your time-averaged) performance.

Honest-to-god conversation with my husband in Ulta: