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9 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +7 points

Ahahahaha!!

9 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 3 replies · +31 points

*MUPPETFLAIL*
SOMEONE GO FIND ME THAT GIF, STAT

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 0 replies · +55 points

My parents enrolled me in volunteer opportunities in Boston to get me out of the house, which I suspect was a thinly veiled ploy to get me to be a bit more urban and a bit less Lady of Shallot.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 0 replies · +127 points

Oh no, there's a legion of us across the globe, all of us faintly disappointed and perennially unable to travel on any road where trees are in bloom without thinking of the White Way of Delight.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 15 replies · +274 points

I don't think I realized until now exactly how resentful I am of LMM's lies. I used to sit outside in long dresses reading books while carefully arranged on the grass and no one ever thought I looked lovely or wistful. They just thought I was weird or perhaps a bit touched in the head. Hmph.

9 years ago @ The Toast - How To Tell If You Are... · 0 replies · +16 points

A MOUNTAIN IS OUT TO GET YOU. AUSTIN, YOU GORGEOUS BASTARD.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +17 points

In my company, our interns have typically been coming in to learn the ground-floor basics of our business - but not 'how to behave in a business environment'. Some of that is likely luck on our part, and some if it is that almost no one interns at mortgage companies, or not my mortgage company. We've only had a very few interns (who were paid) and they were all professional, eager to learn and any complaints about the dress code were never said in management's hearing.

The ones who do bitch in my experience are the older workers (almost exclusively women, but my office is 3/4 female so that's likely the cause of that) who sidle into my office or their direct supervisor's office and make nasty, pointed, snide remarks about how the dress code is fine, *they* don't personally mind it, but did I *see how so-and-so wore a shirt that didn't hide her tattoo?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 10 replies · +54 points

Dear god, that intern.
Setting aside the exploitative nature of most internships, WHAT THE FUCK WAS SHE THINKING? I'm sorry, and maybe this sounds cold, but I've been in management now for about 6 years, and my least-favorite thing ever to hear about dress code (ours is quite strict as well) is "Well, but so-and-so-wore such-and-such the other day! It's not faaaaaaaiiir." Seriously, if you come into my office to discuss your grievances couched in terms of how you compared yourself to someone else, I am sitting there picturing you kicking your heels on the carpet in my office while you talk, having a massive tantrum. The reality about the business world is Nunya, and as 'nunya fucking business.' It doesn't matter if the receptionist comes in wearing a mini-skirt and sneakers. Pay attention to your own shit and leave the managing of your peers to their supervisors. Period.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Worst Weather In A... · 0 replies · +2 points

Very true.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Worst Weather In A... · 0 replies · +13 points

We totally have. This is also the state where getting my LTCC (License to Carry Concealed) consisted of giving them 3 references they didn't call and $10. (as compared to the 3 months, $250, 8 hour class, police interview, fingerprinting & photo on my laminated ID for MA)

I grew up living in MA and vacationing in NH, and now I live in NH. I love it, but JFC it's not for the faint of heart sometimes.

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