me: *tries to relax after a long day at work*

my daughter busting in like the kool aid man: hey. I just slammed my ass in the door.

so many mixed emotions, I don’t even know why

instagram be like: get a nose job, hoe out, do some squats, lose weight, buy skinny tea, buy fenty beauty, buy a kylie lip kit, get your summer body, get engaged, get pregnant, lose the baby weight, dedicate yourself to sex and beauty and men and makeup and your man, shave your eyebrows off then draw them back on-

i need to swim in a clear cold stream and then lie down on a big warm rock in the sun to dry this is non-negotiable

LISTEN UP

Today I did something that terrified the fuck out of me. But ladies, we all gotta do it at some point. 

I got a contract for fulltime work given to me. 

I looked at it. 

I realized, calculating the amount they wanted to offer, that it would actually be less than I’m making part-time now. 

So what did I do?

Let me tell you, every single piece of me wanted to stay quiet and settle and work my way up the ladder. 

Until I realized that

Their reasoning for the pay was insurance. I’m given insurance that’s worth a great deal, so I shouldn’t worry too much because that added up to a bigger salary. Except insurance doesn’t do jack shit if I can’t pay for an apartment or car costs or student loans. 

What did I do?

First

I breathed. I took a breath. I washed my face and had a quick cry in the bathroom. Ain’t nothing wrong with a real fast cry. 

Second

I left a note on my bosses desk asking if he could speak to me about my contract whenever he was next available. 

Third

Once in my bosses office, I calmly handed him my contract back and said, “I’m very honored that you thought of me for a position, but I cannot accept what you’re offering me. I have a masters and I’ve taught in this school for a year, and I’d been under the assumption that I’d be receiving a different position than this.” He asked me what I was looking for. I said, “I would work for no less than [MY RANGE]. And if you cannot offer me that, then I’ll have to continue working for you part time until I can find another position elsewhere that can.” I thanked him very much for the offer. I was polite and upfront about my expectations for the position that I wanted. 

I can’t tell you what will happen. But I can tell you that going in there and establishing myself as a no BS worker who looks out for herself and negotiates got me farther than if I’d said nothing. 

I don’t know the outcome yet. I really don’t. 

But I can tell you that he is currently rewriting my contract with higher pay. 

Will it be high enough to keep me there? I don’t know. 

But I do know that today was me putting myself forward and taking a chance, and chances, no matter how small, do pay off. 

Ladies. 

DON’T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK ABOUT YOUR CONTRACTS. 

IT’S FUCKING TERRIFYING. 

BUT DO IT ANYWAY. 

BECAUSE YOU’RE WORTH MORE, AND THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT. 

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 

GUESS WHO FUCKING GOT HER MONEY TODAY

Speaking up about your paycheck actually works

OPs first post came across my dash and I wanted to reblog it, but then I decided to see if there was a conclusion to this story and this makes it even better!

Glad to see my girl out there kicking butt.

YAS OP

When Mitski said: “I spent all my teen-age years being obsessed with beauty, and I’m very resentful about it and I’m very angry, I had so much intelligence and energy and drive, and instead of using that to study more, or instead of pursuing something or going out and learning about or changing the world, I directed all that fire inward, and burnt myself up.” I felt that.

Positive net worth? That’s higher than I expected

but also when a picture of a chest with no description sends me the message “big cock?” it’s like. idk what to do here.

send them a picture of a large rooster

thank you

:(

So my high school’s drama club did The Bad Seed, a play about a child who brutally murders people. Later, the girl who played the part of the murderer was cast as a gay character and she refused to play the part because it “went against her morals”

People calling themselves hetero when they can’t even keep their morals straight

Seeing people on social media who are all “idk I don’t know if I’d vote for this Democrat if they get the nomination” when the other guy is literally running concentration camps:

I just can’t do this again. I can’t do another 4 years of Tr*mp because y'all think a centrist is a bad as a dude that literally supports ethnic cleansing.

every candidate will run concentration camps you idiots.

these camps were opened up by obama, new management came in and merely expanded them.

the politically illiterate like OP just want to go back to a peaceful brunch and it shows.

You can pretend we’re stupid for knowing that children were forcibly removed from their parents and forcibly drugged throughout the Obama administration, but what you are not going to do is pretend that you actually give a shit about the victims of your concentration camps.

What you actually care about is restoring your ability to pretend that you’re not evil and complicit in ethnic cleansing by supporting American politicians responsible for these atrocities.

And considering that Central Americans are fleeing the result of American foreign policy under Obama, you’ve got a lot more blood on your hands than you care to admit, so it’s obvious why you’re so shrill in trying to act like it’s everyone’s responsibility but yours.

It’s all decolonize this and indigenous rights that, but once an indigenous woman straight up predicted her assassination and named her assassin - hillary clinton - you animals suddenly miss the peace of a quiet brunch.

My grandpa got his first spam email and he called the police

It’s what he would’ve wanted

—

William P. Young, The Shack

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Yeah, fine, release me, just say it! Just fucking say it!

Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster

me: im tired 

Someone in walmart: NOT as tired as our TROOPS!