Letters to the Editor
Anne in NYC
Published Letters: 335 Editor's Choice: 37
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@ How many folks actually wear flip-flops to the office?
[Read the article: How to get ahead at the office -- in 1976]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I’m wearing them right now as is about half my office. My firm’s clients are mostly in fashion and they often come in wearing flip-flops too. It’s been that way here for the past 3 summers.
Heels are a dumb daytime choice for lots of reasons. For starters nothing is as funny as a women who thinks she’s dressed to impress wobbling around in heels – I promise everyone behind her is rolling their eyes right before they pass her up. And regarding the cost of pedicures: they don’t match the cost of all the cabs you need to take when you’re wearing heels. And can you imagine rushing off to a meeting and asking your group to slow down for you? Or demanding you take a car, even if the subway is faster, because you can’t walk? There are so many reasons flats or flip-flops are the way to go.
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I Second YouPorn
[Read the article: Women watch porn to please men?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It’s almost a shame there is just one word for porn because there is so much under that umbrella. I find lots of the more mainstream ‘porn star’ stuff to be wildly dull and not at all fun and I’d bet most of Salon’s readership in on board with that statement – so it’s no surprise that those who find porn distasteful always focus in on that type of ‘porn star’ porn. But the truth is there is so much out there that there really is something for just about everyone.
My deal is I can’t watch fake boobs (they look so swollen, painful and sad) so I go for the stuff that isn’t going to have them: 70s vintage stuff with the funny back stories, mainstream European and even lots of amateur stuff. There are a few more hardcore things that are currently really popular that makes me want to hurl – but I just avoid them and I don’t let that stuff contaminate my personal enjoyment.
I also think it’s cool if you don’t like porn. It is. But it’s not cool to take your personal dislike of porn and make a federal case out of it. Its not disliking porn that makes a person a prude – it’s trying to stomp out the sexual enjoyment of others that makes a person a prude.
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@ skin can react just as badly to a natural product as a synthetic product.
[Read the article: Some dangeous chemicals with your vampy pout?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don’t I know it! I had to give up Lush’s facial cleaners/lotions because I developed a patchy rash and was breaking out. And I tired the whole line too with the same results – it was an expensive experiment that made me look like a meth-head. The moment I switched back to Neutrogena my skin went back to wonderful. To a certain extent I’m cool with the super-natural products as long as they do the job.
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I want several!
[Read the article: Get ready for prairie chic!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think this is going to be my Halloween costume. All I need is a few girlfriends and my sweetie and we’re set. Out of our way slutty cats and witches!
And you know there is a website called Mormon Chic – it’s were I get all my recipes for homemade household cleaners.
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Do people really stay at their jobs for years and years anymore anyway?
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Backlash U.K.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe back in the days of pensions and gold watches a person coming into an office and leaving after a couple of years was scandalous. But these days, among my co-workers and friends, it seems to be the norm. Unless you’re on track to be a partner (and there are a few people at my firm who are on this track) employees come and go with much more frequency these days. My husband switches every couple of years (he’s also an engineer who works 70+ a week) to look for the next big thing that’s offering a larger paycheck and it hardly raises an eyebrow. I really don’t know anyone with the sort of company loyalty this man is looking for.
I also know that during the first year or two of my employment I’m way more motivated then I am after years and years. I’ve been at my current job for 5 years and I’ve very jaded about my work these days. I keep thinking a fresh start would do me AND my current boss a world of good – so if/when I have a baby I see it being a win for everyone.
Of course I have worked at place where we hired a woman only to find out she was already pregnant (and she knew it – she was months along). I understand why she felt like she needed to do it but it’s a super shitty move that prompts bosses to want to ask these questions.
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@ h0tr0d
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Backlash U.K.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It’s easy to phrase things so those shorter stints look like those contractor/short them gigs. My husband and I have both made huge leaps in salary and job titles in all these years we’ve been jumping around. We’re also on the best of terms with our former employers.
I’m also a hiring manager (I wear lots of administrative hats in a small office) and I can tell you in my experience the person with only one or two jobs on their resume looks really fishy too. Also – if you do work at GE (I’m wearing my HR hat now) I would NOT be writing anything about 'jobs' or 'resumes': I know from jumping around at larger companies that the man is watching you.
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Isn’t it ironic?
[Read the article: "Anti-Abortion, but Pro-Date Rape"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it’s supposed to be – but it’s such an extremely poor example of irony that I’m shocked they ever got printed up. This just isn’t funny. Not even one little bit. And I’m a fan of inappropriate jokes.
And, just as its Amazon’s right to sell this t-shirt, it’s my right to give it a stinker of a review (which I did earlier today) to complain up and down to anyone who will listen and to not shop at Amazon until those freaks over there get it together better then this.