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    VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriverBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:49pm

    So the attractive white women who had a job at one of the most successful magazines ever is using the following hashtags on twitter.

    #underdogs

    #theunderdogs

    #pexit

    That sound you hear is me in the corner vomiting.

    EDIT: So I guess Underdogs or The Underdogs is the name of her stupid book which I was supposed to just know even though Bobby made no mention of it. Don’t care still a fucking stupid and hashtag to use. You are in no way shape or form an underdog. Oh and for those dropping the racist card, you think anyone who is not white would do this? This is white privilege embodied, being able to drop pipe bombs without fear of it affecting your future employment. Some other magazine will grab this woman up if for no other reason than the cheap buzz it will generate, but if she were black or brown, i guarantee you that would not be the case.

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      Tart-isVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
      7/01/16 12:50pm

      The Underdogs is the name of her YA novel. I can’t believe I clicked the NY Post link to read the entire letter. Ugh to me.

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      AllieCat ❤️'S hats on cats-is probable weirdoVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
      7/01/16 12:53pm

      This made me audibly sigh and frightened my cat.

      An underdog ughhhhhhhh

      Also. Are you really whining that you couldn’t review your own novel in People magazine? Maybe write a better novel. (I have no idea if her novel is good or not good but that’s some entitled bullshit right there)

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    RicwashBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:49pm

    I know that it has got to be hard to try and be a working writer, and in a round a bout way, I feel sorriest for people working at gossip rags like People and TMZ. I giver her kudos for hanging in there for 14 years, but I can’t imagine what kid of toxic environment it must have been. Eight rounds of layoffs? Dayum.

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      barelylethal: shitassRicwash
      7/01/16 12:51pm

      Being left after round after round after round of layoffs are the worst. Today’s my last day in a company I have worked for for almost a decade. For the last six years, we have had a layoff every 6 months, of varying types/sizes. It gets to the point where you begin praying the next one gets you.

      The fact that I am leaving of my own accord after surviving a dozen layoffs makes me a goddamned unicorn. And an idiot.

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      Armageddon T. Thunderbirdbarelylethal: shitass
      7/01/16 1:02pm

      A unicordiot

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    JezebelEchoChamberBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:51pm

    Employment is a privilege, not a right. As much as we may feel entitled to a certain level of treatment in the workplace, we are compensated for our time there not through rosy treatment but through the paycheck received. I don’t doubt this writer has valid complaints, but outing yourself as potentially “difficult to work with” is never a wise move.

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      AllieCat ❤️'S hats on cats-is probable weirdoJezebelEchoChamber
      7/01/16 12:56pm

      She believes she's outing herself as way better than them and a writer with actual morals-I guess? I mean great. Must be nice to burn down the place you used to work because you think celeb gossip is stupid. It is but...you worked at people. It would be different if there was some kind of abuse going on, but this is coming off as the Kathryn Heigl of gossip magazines.

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      kansasgirlAllieCat ❤️'S hats on cats-is probable weirdo
      7/01/16 12:59pm

      I think she’s outing herself as a lousy writer. Holy run-on sentences!

      This is my favorite:

      “I will say, what happens after that is that my debut teen mystery, the one I spent my adult life making into a reality, but which, despite the schlock regularly featured in its pages and online, People decided to ignore—more to the point, they ignored me entirely—even after I toiled away for them for 14 years.”

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    iElvis is Now Funded by Peter ThielBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:47pm

    You realize, I hope, that she’s just trying to promote her book?

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      LooneyLovegoodiElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      7/01/16 12:48pm

      BURN THEM ALL!

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      Bobby FingeriElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      7/01/16 1:00pm

      I do! And it worked!

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    Ms.ChanandlerBongBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:50pm

    George Clooney being awkward around kids sounds about right. I wonder how he’s managed to stay friends with Brad and his kindergarten class.

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      AllieCat ❤️'S hats on cats-is probable weirdoMs.ChanandlerBong
      7/01/16 1:12pm

      This made me laugh.

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      goddessoftransitoryMs.ChanandlerBong
      7/01/16 1:13pm

      I find it ever more amusing he played a pediatrician on ER.

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    MEtheBarbarianBobby Finger
    7/01/16 1:44pm

    So I clicked the link for her novel and side note: why the hell do people review things they haven’t read/eaten/made etc? “5 stars just bought this and am reading it tonight!!” “5 stars can’t wait to make this!!” Thanks for that helpful tidbit.

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      Milton Greene's KidneyMEtheBarbarian
      7/01/16 1:48pm

      This is my biggest food blog pet peeve!!! It makes me unreasonably annoyed when there’s 40 comments or something and 39 of them are other food bloggers saying “omg this looks sooooooo good” and then link to their blog.

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      BoSephusMEtheBarbarian
      7/01/16 1:58pm

      After reading the “reviews” I am quite certain all of these people are her relatives or her under a different screen name.

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    DragonsDaughterBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:53pm

    I am so in love with the fact that she had the epic steel balls it took to tell these shit peddlers exactly how to fuck off.

    Signed, Everyone who’s ever had a dysfunctional work arrangement ever.

    Also, I don’t want to hear anyone sniping about how she should have left if she didn’t like it or whatever, because 1) you can’t just pick a new job off the fucking job tree anymore. Shit is impossible to land at all levels/in all fields since the recession. And 2) she’s leaving NOW. Better late than never.

    Good luck Sara. I wish you well in the wars to come.

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      Hntrss13 Version 2.0DragonsDaughter
      7/01/16 1:02pm

      you can’t just pick a new job off the fucking job tree anymore. Shit is impossible to land at all levels/in all fields since the recession.

      Dear Lord. Truer words have never been written. I’ve been looking for jobs in larger markets for the last three years (I am fortunate enough to already be employed) and it’s just a nightmare.

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      DragonsDaughterHntrss13 Version 2.0
      7/01/16 1:05pm

      I'm in the same boat as you, been looking for a year now, with apps going out 2-3x per week. It would be amazing if it wasn't so dehumanizing.

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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:59pm

    I don’t get what she’s angry about.

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      Snacky_OnassisJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      7/01/16 1:07pm

      I think some people at work didn’t know her name or something.

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      AllieCat ❤️'S hats on cats-is probable weirdoJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      7/01/16 1:11pm

      Having to work with celebrities when you work at a celeb gossip magazine SUCKS. She shouldn't have had to do what her job entails!

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    FeralFrigidSlutBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:52pm

    My takeaway? People are eating really big burritos these days.

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      goddessoftransitoryFeralFrigidSlut
      7/01/16 1:14pm

      Truly. How do you look pregnant after one burrito? I mean, I look six months along at all times but it took more than one burrito.

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      Edfonzo AlgardoFeralFrigidSlut
      7/01/16 1:14pm

      Sorry, any burrito smaller than my head isn’t worth bothering with.

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    athousandgoodintentionsBobby Finger
    7/01/16 12:44pm

    The paragraph about Jennifer Aniston is pure gold. I want to clap for this woman.

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      Space Mothathousandgoodintentions
      7/01/16 1:12pm

      The one where she complains about the fact that working at a celebrity ‘news’ magazine involves keeping up with celebrity ‘news’?

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      Foofaathousandgoodintentions
      7/01/16 1:16pm

      Those Jennifer Annistan Pregnant! stories are just getting cruel now. She’s old (sorry. not sorry.) For whatever reason, either by choice or by unhappy circumstance, she did not have children. Not nice to rub her face in looking a bit bloated* in some photos.

      *Jen’s “bloated” is normal-people thin.

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