How to Cry at Work
If you cry as often as I do, this is relevant to your interests.
You Need Help: Your Girlfriend is Permanently Unemployed, Maybe
What to do when a temporary situation starts looking like a permanent personality trait.
Freelancers Freelancing Their Way Into Jeopardy
Freelancers strengthen our economy, but at what cost?
You Need Help: Employment Edition
Get a job!
Recession or No, You’re More Likely to Be Broke If You’re Gay
If you’ve been feeling like you’re at the end of your rope financially, this study confirms that if you’re queer, it’s probably because you are.
Weird Shit People Ask Me at This Dumb Restaurant Job
Ha ha! I’m quitting my job next month! Hahahahahaha!
“Feminized” Workplace Hasn’t Fixed the Wage Gap for Creative Women
In which The Man does the damning.
Bad Education: Why Some Gay People Can’t Be University Professors
“I think that anybody that adheres to a lifestyle outside of what the biblical mandate is would not be allowed to continue here.”
Leisha Hailey and Camila Grey are Making a Statement
“We want to make it clear we were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves, it was one, modest kiss. We are responsible adult women who walk through the world with dignity.”
Southwest Kicks Leisha Hailey Off Plane For Kissing Her Girlfriend, Starts Internet Sh*tstorm
GLAAD’s official airline Southwest claims their decision to kick Alice off the airplane was motivated by “behavior and not gender.” But we’re not buying it — and neither is Shane or Adam Lambert or everyone on twitter.
GO Magazine’s Red Hot Entrepreneurs Includes the Ladies of Unicorn PLAN-IT
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: “You must work your ass off, ‘cause you can sit on it later!”
Dear Catastrophe Waitress: The Kit
Take off your ipod, you just got sat.
You Don’t Understand My Job
Riese’s Team Pick: “The reality of it is the vast majority of designers will work to make ugly things for strategically incompetent people only to have more people still think very little of you.”
Listling With Minimal Commentary: Selections From Anti-Lesbian Bridal Salon’s 868 Yelp Reviews
“Tried to find the place on a map, but apparently they’re stuck somewhere in 1956.”
How Not to Flirt with Your Boss
Brittani’s Team Pick: I want you to know how to flirt with your boss and get fired at the same time.
Whole Foods is a “Faux Hippy Wal-Mart”
Laura’s Team Pick: Dear *****, You win a lot of awards in my book. Best at being a chauvinist. Least likely to realize he’s about to walk into someone.
48% of Gays Aren’t Out at Work, Even on Diversity Day
Is it really possible that basically half of all college-educated gays are still in the closet at work?
Wal-Mart Wins Again: Supreme Court Throws Out Giant Gender Discrimination Case
In a 5-4 vote, the supreme court has voted to toss what would’ve been the largest class-action suit ever, filed on behalf of nearly 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees.
Pam’s House Blend is Moving to Firedoglake, Seems Like a Good Idea
Pam’s House Blend is not a coffee shop and FireDogLake is not a campground. But what ARE they? Like, together?
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: What Aspiring Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Lady Gaga
You were born this way, now it’s time to get paid!