Yeah I got that a lot in Boulder when I was working 3 jobs (nanny, a shitty job delivering subs until 3 am when I had 8 am lab and then weekends teaching a kids ski team back home) and taking 19 credit hours and working an honors thesis ... The kids who'd try to stiff me or short me would be living in frat or sorority…

The massage parlor on North Main and the strip club the Satin Doll were favorites of my boss (not my manager who was awesome but the owner). There was also a ICE agent who'd give him the heads up when they were coming and they'd clear out most of the BOH staff working without papers. God it was horrible. I just…

EXACTLY. I pointed out to her King Soopers (the local grocery store) is just down the street.

I've come close to saying something similar to the frequent old couples we get at the place I work now in off season who work our asses off and don't tip- they all want modifications on everything, no salt, no gluten, etc.…

Unfortunately I've had to take things like this before, just to keep a job. That's probably the worse part of being a long term restaurant employee, constant financial ups and downs and a lack of job security and any semblance of benefits. If you can take a day off when you're seriously sick and not lose your job, you…

I told a poster elsewhere here I have the same experience, growing up signing with other young mainstreamed people (not full ASL, a bit more Pidgin) in the Western US then moving to the northeast and encountering a lot of older ASL users who went to schools for the Deaf. Different handshapes, different slang,…

Providence is a horrible, magical, soul destroying, crazy place.

Oh and I also worked at a mob owned Rhode Island pizza place... the stories from there... (the owner asking me to be his personal assistant for 10k that summer meaning I'd sleep with him and be his arm candy at clubs, Pauly D pre Jersey Shore trying to steal from me and feel me up at the same time at the register, a…

We had that plus a stabbing in the bathroom of one place I worked.... needless to stay we started locking it after 11 pm. No more attempted murders but it didn't stop the other shit (bad pun slightly intended)

Oh and I also worked at a mob owned Rhode Island pizza place... the stories from there... (the owner asking me to be his personal assistant for 10k that summer meaning I'd sleep with him and be his arm candy at clubs, Pauly D pre Jersey Shore trying to steal from me and feel me up at the same time at the register, a…

In college I went out with friends once and refused to get up from the table until they left a reasonable tip (they were my sorority sisters from a small multicultural Jewish sorority...). They claimed bubbie saaid you could tip 10% before tax (and this was after her being one of those shitty picky diners who complain…

I've worked for over a decade (since I was 16) in the entire gauntlet of food service- from Midtown Manhattan 5 stars to suburban Denver chains to small family owned hole in the walls owned by crazy Romanians. I'm still serving and hosting in a fancy ski resort steak house and nothing makes me hate my life a little…

He's a good guy in person says this female.

I signed with mainstreamed teenagers in the western US. The signs we used were very different than those of older Deaf/ASL users especially those from northeastern schools for the Deaf. Like we would fingerspell r-e-f for fridge, while I saw the handshape for r drawn in a sort of 7 shape with the right hand out east.…

As a native Hawaiian (kanaka maoli) who used to dress up as Belle for Halloween because she was the darkest (and like me- loved books), I'm stoked about this!

I was roofied, raped, beat up and choked unconscious in Dec 2012. I had to go 60 miles to the closest hospital that offered sexual assault exams (they don't in the one hospital in our county despite it being a level 3 trauma center and home to one of the country's top orthopedic surgeons). My friend had to drive me…

I was supposed to get married in September. A few weeks before the wedding, right after my ex's parents had switched their flights to come in for the wedding, I came home to him packing up all his things and telling me it was over. It was out of no where and he gave no explanations. His older brother had talked him…

Ryan Atwood wouldn't judge! But he's not much of a brunch guy either.

The Panthers have fans?

I was a college jumper and I second this (actually one of my former junior elite teammates formerly coached at Tenneesee). I was lucky that during my 2 1/2 years of major surgeries on my foot rendering me unable to compete and resulting in being classified as a medical redshirt, didn't void or result in not renewing…

You are supporting them by using their products. Do you pay for internet? Did you buy your computer? You've become a tool of the patriarchy too.

And pray tell, how do you work to end rape culture if you're too special of a snowflake to associate with anyone who has anything to do with almost any industry?