moxperidot:

kintatsujo:

gayforbagels:

brianadeshe:

annakie:

micdotcom:

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.

They gave me a number to shoot for.  It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.

So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.

I got what I asked for.

If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known.  I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.

You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.

Because this is crucially important

Except for the fact that 90% of the time you are under contract not to talk about your salary otherwise the company can sue you. Every job I’ve had I’ve had to sign that I won’t discuss my pay with other employees otherwise my employment is terminated and the company will take legal action. 

It’s actually illegal for companies to forbid wage discussion, they’re just counting on you not knowing your rights.

wow its a good thing companies always follow the law and never lie

thor-suggestion:

thisismarvelus:

There is so much going on here, I don’t even know where to begin.

1. Scarlett Johansson’s very confident “yep” while wearing both Chris’s name tags on her boobs. Chris and upside-down Chris.

2. Robert Downey Jr.’s intensity, and Very Serious

™

demeanor, while bearing his name tag on his head.

3. Chris Hemsworth’s nod, as he starts to get touchy with RDJ??

4. Jeremy Renner looking surprised, yet intrigued.

5. Mark Ruffalo’s lip bite as >> Mark.exe has stopped working

6. Chris confirmed he’s a powerbottom size queen

bemusedlybespectacled:

quietlyglittering:

bemusedlybespectacled:

okay so I know that the reason there’s a “stark tower” in the MCU is because in 2012 no one knew that “guy with big new york tower with his name on it” was going to have different connotations in fewer than ten years, but I choose to believe that it’s because donald trump just straight up doesn’t exist in the MCU

They have superheroes and no Trump? They must be living in the Good Place

pros of living in the MCU:

  • superheroes
  • no Trump
  • Wakanda exists
  • a rich white billionaire invented clean, renewable energy and shared the tech with everyone
  • Thor is real and currently single

cons of living in the MCU:

  • constant threat of alien invasion
  • ???

Mansplaining protip:

hiddenlacuna:

bendingsignpost:

daughter-of-rowan:

kaylapocalypse:

kestrel-tree:

When a man starts
explaining a concept you already told him you understand,
instead of saying “I know” over and over until you die, try one of these:

  • Ok, which aspect is confusing you?
  • It seems like
    you have the basics down; Would you like me to recommend some good articles so you can get a more nuanced understanding?
  • So did
    you have a specific question, or do you just want a more in depth
    explanation?

SAVAGE

teacher-zone him

My cousin is an asst psych professor. Her new boss brought up how male students sometimes challenge female professors. He asked how she handles that: she says ‘hold on: let me take notes’, grabs a pen & paper, and proceeds to take no notes. If he asks why, she says ‘Tell me something I don’t know & I’ll have something to write’; no student has tried twice. Her boss laughed and asked her to mention it at the next staff meeting.

Additional tip:

If you need to bring up a topic you think he’ll argue against, ask him if he knows what it is, nod along as he tells you, and then build on the argument he’s just made for you by laying the base. 

aka, I had a mansplaining coworker who used to trigger the shit out of my PTSD, so one day I asked him if he knew what “trigger” meant as a psychological term. He proceeded to explain my own panic attacks to me and ended up having a facial Oh Shit when I responded with “Yes, that’s exactly what happens to me when you do X, I’m glad you understand.”

It’s very hard to claim ignorance of the subject when you’ve just been so very proud of showing off your knowledge of that subject. 

BRILLIANT.

bloomsburys:

why are we still telling women in academia to be more assertive, to hedge less, and pretending that this is supportive advice?? what if, instead of telling women to hedge less and be more assertive, we told men to hedge more and to be less assertive??

why is ‘male’ writing the standard to which women should aspire?? why are we perpetuating the gender binary in this way?? there are as many writing styles as there are genders and sorry, but all the best scholarship i’ve ever read is explorative and suggestive and experimental and open to refutation. it hedges. hedging is good. things grow in hedges, grow from hedges, grow around and between hedges.

misscherrylikesitdirty:

How to be a good sex worker ally:

  • Following sex workers and reblogging their posts about whorephobia and stigma
  • Leaving SW-only posts well alone (no matter how “educational” you think they are)
  • Checking your friends, family, followers, anyone you can without endangering yourself, on whorephobic language and whorephobic behaviour
  • Pointing out whorephobia in the media and consuming media critically in regards to whorephobic language and character tropes
  • Donating to sex workers in need or sex worker-led organisations that offer direct help to active and exiting sex workers – finding your local sex worker organisation and setting up a small but regular donation can do wonders
  • If you do not feel capable of donating, please do not forget to signal boost both our donation campaigns and the posts of individual sex workers in a tough spot
  • Only current and former sex workers are competent to pass judgment and talk about clients of sex workers. Do not criticise clients or customers of sex workers if you are not a sex worker. 
  • BUYING YOUR FUCKING PORN

How not to be a good sex worker ally:

  • Say you’re trying to be a good ally without doing any of the above
  • Talking over sex workers
  • Ignoring whorephobia when it’s staring you in the face 
  • Enforcing lateral whorephobia
  • Using trafficking victims as rhetorical pawns
  • Saying you “support sex workers but not the industry”

randomslasher:

queerical:

teaboot:

demimonde-quasigoddess:

Yet another installment in humans being fuckin weird compared to aliens: humans give blood, organs, and tissue to each other, because our race is built around being able to function under as much stress as possible.

So of course, what do we do when another human will die without something we could live without?
We go to our local hospital and undergo trauma to provide them with it, for no compensation.

Sure you might need to eat and drink more, take antibiotics or anti rejection drugs, but hey!

B’ril over there had to wait until HIS race figured out stem cells and lab grown organs, because ALL their organs are vital, and losing a pint of fluid flat out kills them or sends them into shock.

“You… you lost… your toxin filters?”

“Well, we’ve got a few things that do that, but yeah, like… four of them?”

“….Four?”

“Well, counting tonsils.”

“You are… How are you alive, again?”

“You make it sound so weird. I still have two kidneys- One’s synthetic, the other was donated.”

“…….donated?”

“Yeah, my girlfriend was compatible.”

“Donated.”

“….Yeah? Like, we had the same blood type and everything, and she volunteered. What, you guys don’t do that? What do you do when someone needs a liver, or something?”

“We… clone one.”

“Okay, sure, but what did you do before cloning? You didn’t just like, give someone a piece?”

“….. we died? Wait, what do you mean, ‘give someone a piece’?”

“Well, our livers can grow back. You can give someone a piece of yours, and they can grow their own. You guys don’t do that?”

“,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,………..no.”

#organ donation is almost real-life necromancy#reduce reuse recycle except with corpses (via @iron-sulfur-world)

I absolutely adore these ‘humans are the hardiest aliens’ stories.