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    AnonymousCivilPersonAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 2:50pm
    GIF

    I know these letters and most of the words, but I can’t tell what they are trying to say.

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      SodburgerAnonymousCivilPerson
      4/13/16 2:53pm

      I know yesterday I said I wanted more long prose articles but maybe I misspoke...

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      PussyFartAnonymousCivilPerson
      4/13/16 2:56pm

      Glad I’m not alone.

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    hamwinkyAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:18pm

    Initially, like the other commentors, I was having a tough time giving this article a chance, but I decided to go back and reread and it and my God, I feeeeeeel this on a deeeep level right now.

    I’m in grad school -didn’t wanna go- and got a job in that field -somehow. I don’t like it, am not satisfied, but am under pressure to be super happy and grateful I got a job at all, especially one in my field that’s such a rarity. The learning curve is steep, nobody’s bothered to properly train me, the turnover is high, and my commute is 90 minutes long and they expect me to stay at work for long hours with no extra pay.

    This is kind of what it’s like to feel constantly monitored by a generation of colleagues and commentators who haven’t taken sufficient time to guide or teach you. The overall impression is that you are fucking up all the time, egregiously, in ways you cannot see or avoid.

    This part got to me in particular. I dread coming to my job daily because the environment isn’t supportive at all, and I don’t feel like I’m growing. I’m too tired to work on assignments for school, and I daydream constantly about wanting to leave here. I can’t confide in anyone about it, not even my peers, because they keep spouting about how lucky I am to be employed at all.

    Shit, I agree, I was unemployed for six months last year after my contract at a non-profit wasn’t renewed. I had to go to work counseling while on unemployment benefits, and the teacher tried her best to give advice to a grad student under 25 about how to find full time work.

    I’m rambling but I just wanted to say, ‘I get it’ and ‘thanks.’

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      GinAndTonic Got Stuck in the Barneyhamwinky
      4/13/16 3:25pm

      I just feel like, if this is how she writes everything, no wonder life is a struggle.

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      Terror and Lovehamwinky
      4/13/16 3:25pm

      “but am under pressure to be super happy and grateful I got a job at all, especially one in my field that’s such a rarity. The learning curve is steep, nobody’s bothered to properly train me, the turnover is high, and my commute is 90 minutes long and they expect me to stay at work for long hours with no extra pay.”

      That is rough. And really dont take the 90 minutes commute lightly.. That can be a huge factor in stress. compounded on the other problems.

      My sympathies.

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    GinAndTonic Got Stuck in the BarneyAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:01pm

    You’re not just thinning the value of something you’ve already got by applying it too often and too far, which is currently the case across the temporal board.

    Like in this whole piece of longform word salad?

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      Angelica SchuylerGinAndTonic Got Stuck in the Barney
      4/13/16 3:04pm

      impressive that you read closely enough to make a connection

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      GinAndTonic Got Stuck in the BarneyAngelica Schuyler
      4/13/16 3:06pm

      I really tried.

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    iElvis is Now Funded by Peter ThielAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:05pm

    Earlier this evening, I read an article about how it’s awful to work with people my age, because we’re… something. It was unclear

    I think the answer is fairly well emboidied within this article.

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      Angelica SchuyleriElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      4/13/16 3:08pm

      she doesn’t speak for all of us

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      Angelica SchuylerAngelica Schuyler
      4/13/16 3:08pm

      i hope

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    Ken YadiggitAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:49pm

    ok ok I feel really bad for how the commenters are treating this piece at the moment, so let me just say....even though I didn’t like it, a lot of the harsher comments are just us being jerks. Everybody here likes being the funny asshole and it runs away with us. It takes guts to write something and have it out there, whether it is good or not. I guess I am feeling extra sensitive and empathetic about this because I am struggling with my own writing and how it may be poorly received. But that’s part of the job right, writing shit and people having opinions on it and then getting better from it.

    So. Yes. Please keep writing but also take into account the GENERAL idea of what people are telling you. Less words, more meaning. The memes are jokes are all for our own sakes cause we like to hear ourselves talk.

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      Ken YadiggitKen Yadiggit
      4/13/16 3:50pm

      Well I’m not sure if I wrote that for her or wrote that for me but fuck it, it’s almost 5 and I have a pack of smokes and a half bottle of red with my name on it.

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      GinAndTonic Got Stuck in the BarneyKen Yadiggit
      4/13/16 3:55pm

      More expository writing, less descriptive writing. That’s all we ask.

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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 2:58pm
    GIF
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      JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      4/13/16 3:10pm

      I am so amused at the apparently universal disdain for this post. I had previously expressed a desire for more long-form. Maybe I need to reconsider.

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      PhyllisNeflerJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      4/13/16 3:22pm

      This comment section is giving me life, probably because I’m a terrible person.

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    irritablevowelAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:33pm

    Oh. I thought this was going to be an article about oversharing at work and instead it’s an article about.... millennials? I think?

    Anyway, I’m all for bonding with coworkers, but once I had a coworker (in her 40s; def not a millennial) who was the WORST oversharer I’ve ever met in my life. She would talk—very loudly—at my cubicle about the most horrendous things; drugs, child abuse, underage sex, her anal fissure, pubic hair, I mean jfc I knew things about her body that I don’t know about my own. I was always terrified of having someone overhear her talking to me and getting fired by association. Good lord lady, save it for after-work drinks! T_T

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      Marillenbaumirritablevowel
      4/13/16 3:40pm

      I feel really lucky that I have such a good group of immediate coworkers. That said, I did once accidentally overshare with my boss’s boss: I was dropping off some files in her office, and she asked how I was, and I started rambling about how I was going on a date that night and I really liked the guy and wanted to not screw it up. Thankfully, she was gracious about it, and even got politely indignant on my behalf when he ghosted on me later.

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      irritablevowelMarillenbaum
      4/13/16 3:43pm

      Awww that’s kind of sweet, though. That’s the good kind of overshare. ;)

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    KatMarloweAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:02pm

    God, it finally happened — I forgot how to read. Because I have no idea what any of this means.

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      botticelliloveKatMarlowe
      4/13/16 3:07pm

      I spent 2 paragraphs being concerned for my suddenly crap reading comprehension skills, then thankfully thought to check the comments.

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      Suck It, TrebekKatMarlowe
      4/13/16 3:15pm

      I thought I was having a stroke.

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    adultosaur married anna on the astral planeAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:06pm

    this was so many

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      GinAndTonic Got Stuck in the Barneyadultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      4/13/16 3:21pm

      why is this so funny?

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      Chuck E.adultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      4/13/16 3:42pm

      TL;DS

      (Too long, didn’t survive.)

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    SheeshTheseNamesAmy Rose Spiegel
    4/13/16 3:06pm

    Please know that I am unable to stop myself from doing this because of my job. Here goes:

    These details inferred that we are all layabout treehouse-sloth tuna slobs who don’t deserve the wages we might command, unlike many of our more august colleagues...

    The word should be “implied.” The details imply something, and you infer something from the details. See what I mean?

    (Sorry. I told you I couldn’t help it.)

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      Angelica SchuylerSheeshTheseNames
      4/13/16 3:09pm

      Jia didn’t write it. She’s just the editor who posted it for the non-Jez writer (I assume—not sure exactly how their system works)

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      SheeshTheseNamesAngelica Schuyler
      4/13/16 3:12pm

      Damn, you saw that before I had the chance to edit it out! It’s gone now, though.

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