Caucuses are terrible because, like the Internet, the loudest people get way too much attention.

The cover up is always worse than the crime.

Ah I see. This is all just a promotion for Waddle Dee's upcoming autobiography, I Have No Mouth and I Must Eat.

Mistakes happen. I don’t understand why restaurants compound them by saying it will be a minute when it’s going to end up being 20 or 30 minutes. Admit the mistake and ask the customer if they would prefer to get it later or if you get them a substitute you can serve faster, or maybe offer a free dessert.

My son works 50+ hours a week in a salaried position. His employer does not offer health insurance coverage because it’s cheaper for them to just pay the penalties.

I have an annoying co-worker who’s taken on the role of the office’s batty ol’ bitty (no idea why anyone would want to do that) and she told us how a japanese man on the bus (she claimed he was japanese, I have no idea what she based that on) coughed so she changed seats. She told us this as a funny story as in…

It’s weird to me that people are so chill about influenza.

I love that, to her, the primary example of society being broken isn’t related to racism, xenophobia, the effects of social determinants of health on historically marginalized populations, or anything remotely related to human rights or equality and the obstacles to achieving those things...it’s that she is super…

Read the Ask A Manager blog. Anytime you see a post about how an employer treats you like family, you’ll see a letter about unreasonable demands and blurred boundaries. And yet those same employer's will not think twice about firing you if they need to.

She seems really concerned with making sure her kids have the absolute BEST of every experience. Like this is part of her interview - she’s looking for someone with “the ability to plan, to do research, to make good decisions about “this is the right flag football team versus that one and this is why.””  

I bet she’s an absolute hoot to work for in any capacity.

if she got an opportunity to use her business degree and start a career in some other field tomorrow I’d be sad and stressed, but also excited for her. As much as we ‘love’ each other, we don’t LOVE each and that’s how it should be!

This person’s toxicity really shows through in the followup.

I have been thinking about this ad all weekend.

I’d always assumed that’s why boarding schools got started: rich people didn’t want to take care of their kids.

In a strange way, it reminds me of that classic situation when couple says they’re poly, but expect their other partners to be like some slutty mary poppins who simultaneously has nothing in their life but the couple but also no attachments to them.

Also I work 50-60 hour weeks in a high level, crisis-heavy job. My husband and I do most of that shit ourselves except for the stupid math tutoring.

The job posting also asks that the [applicant] also be able to have “room in their heart to love the kids and the mom; has a high capacity to be loved deeply by them.” The very next bullet point asks that the applicant also have “appropriate boundaries.”

“It sounds like what they need is a good butler to run their household, who can then”... raise the children to be emotionally stunted crime fighters after the parents are brutally murdered.