My roommate asked for time off to vote; her employer literally laughed at her. Now, there is legal recourse there, and she would have likely won and even gotten awarded a money judgment.

But she needed that job without interruption. This was in Canada, by the way.

This post actually got me to call my pharmacist to get early refills so I’ll have meds for my trip coming up

You other bakers can’t deny

DevOps on the resume, Sysadmin in my heart forever.

The argument for Buddhism in a nutshell

Full on Madhyamika gender

Hasten the day

Exactly what kind of *ussy is “sussy”?

Diary of an Appthecary is a real delight

Worked at a Borders in the 90s. We joked constantly about just sorting everything by size and colour.

The word is bootlicker. There are of course bad union leaders, and the cure is the same: organizing.

If you have civil and criminal causes of action, it’s often expedient to pursue the criminal one first, as it’s admissible as evidence in the civil case—the reverse isn’t usually true. I would be very surprised if there were not a settlement very soon, which unfortunately we will probably never hear about.

With the facts of the criminal case, I don’t think they would have any difficulty at all getting a legal team to go after EBay. It’s a risk/reward thing for them and the pockets they’d be going after are very deep.