From Money authored by Olivia Raimonde: “When Carrie Jernigan was doing some last-minute, pre-vacation shopping with her kids at a Payless ShoeSource near their home in Alma, Arkansa, she had no idea she would soon be taking home upwards of 1,500 pairs of shoes. “What have I done?” the 37-year-old lawyer and mother of three […]
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Yes, You Actually Should Be Using Emojis at Work
From The Wall Street Journal authored by Christopher Mims: “At first, Marek Nowak, a 32-year-old engineer at enterprise cloud software company CircleCI, was skeptical of using emojis when communicating with colleagues. Now, whenever he posts the minutes of his team meetings in Slack, he precedes them with a custom emoji of a teddy bear giving a […]
This Woman Was Charged $185,000 In Her Own Sexual Harassment Case
From The Huffington Post authored by Emily Peck: “She’s paid $185,000 so far to have judges hear her sexual harassment and discrimination complaint against EY, a firm that pulls in billions of dollars of revenue annually, according to a complaint Ward filed last week in federal court. “How many victims will even be able to […]
Berkeley plans to remove gendered pronouns from its municipal code
From The Washington Post authored by Kayla Epstein: “In Berkeley, Calif., “man-made” will soon be “human made,” “chairman” will become “chairperson,” and “manhole” will change to “maintenance hole” — at least, in the city’s municipal code. In an effort to make Berkeley more inclusive for its non-binary residents, the city council voted Tuesday night to […]
Why It’s So Hard for Men to See Misogyny
From The Slate authored by Amanda Hess: “When Santa Barbara police arrived at Elliot Rodger’s apartment last month—after Rodger’s mother alerted authorities to her son’s YouTube videos, where he expressed his resentment of women who don’t have sex with him, aired his jealousy of the men they do choose, and stated his intentions to remedy this […]
OxyContin Made The Sacklers Rich. Now It’s Tearing Them Apart.
From The Wall Street Journal authored by Jared Hopkins: “Jacqueline Sackler was fed up. HBO’s John Oliver would soon use his TV show to pillory her family, the clan that owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. In a nearly 15-minute Sunday-night segment, he joined a long line of people who blamed the Sacklers in […]
An Epidemic of Disbelief
From The Atlantic authored by Barbara Bradley Hagerty: “Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space. The air inside was hot and musty. Spada, an assistant prosecutor, saw that some of the windows were open, […]
At a Missouri Jail, Bras Set Off the Metal Detector (and a Heated Debate)
From The New York Times authored by Jacey Fortin: “The metal detector at the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City, Mo., beeped repeatedly when Laurie Snell, a lawyer, tried to enter the facility on May 31. She was passing through security on her way to visit a client, but something she was wearing was […]
Serena Williams Poses Unretouched for Harper’s BAZAAR
From Harper’s Bazzar authored by Serena Willams: “At 17, I won my first Grand Slam, and I knew I had more in me. In fact, I was so sure that when I packed up my life and left my dad’s house to move in with my sister Venus, I told him he could keep my […]
Sunday Night Is the New Monday Morning, and Workers Are Miserable
From The Wall Street Journal authored by Kelsey Gee: “Like many bosses, Chris Mullen found the final hours of the weekend ideal for decluttering an unruly inbox, sharing stray thoughts with staff on projects and requesting status updates to prep for the week. His colleagues felt otherwise. All those emails were pulling them into the […]
