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Bargain Friday’s TPS Report: Merona Jersey Skirt

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Our daily TPS reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices. This skirt is only $15, sure, but the reviews are glowing — particularly from curvy women. They say it's comfortable, wearable year-round, and washable: sounds good to me. It's available in brown (pictured), black, and gray for $14.99 (with free shipping over $50). Lovely. Merona® Women's Jersey Skirt – Natures Brown Seen a great piece you'd like to recommend? Please e-mail editor@corporette.com with “TPS” in the subject line. (L-2)

Sales of note for 10.10.24

  • Nordstrom – Extra 25% off clearance (through 10/14); there's a lot from reader favorites like Boss, FARM Rio, Marc Fisher LTD, AGL, and more. Plus: free 2-day shipping, and cardmembers earn 6x points per dollar (3X the points on beauty).
  • Ann Taylor – Extra 50% off sale (ends 10/12)
  • Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything plus extra 25% off your $125+ purchase
  • Boden – 10% off new styles with code; free shipping over $75
  • Eloquii – Extra 50% off a lot of sale items, with code
  • J.Crew – 40% off sitewide
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site, plus extra 25% off orders $150+
  • Lo & Sons – Fall Sale, up to 35% off
  • M.M.LaFleur – Save 25% sitewide
  • Neiman Marcus – Sale on sale, up to 85% off
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – 50% off 2+ markdowns
  • Target – Circle week, deals on 1000s of items
  • White House Black Market – Buy one, get one – 50% off full price styles

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Comments

  1. lawyerette

    PSA – Ann Taylor is having a friends and family sale (30% off everything) and at least at the store near me, there’s a huge sales rack which has an extra 25% off. I scored a wool dress, jacket, skirt and blouse yesterday for $130. Going back for the pants today :)

  2. anon

    PSA2: Groupon Cleveland is $25 for a $50 gift certificate from Nordstrom Rack, good at any Rack in the country.

    • Midori

      Groupon Chicago, too! It’s probably the national deal. Use by 12/31/10, though.

      You guys hear that Google is trying to buy Groupon?

    • Ru

      Thanks for the heads-up! It isn’t a national groupon. I tried purchasing it via Seattle but the groupon website is crashing. I hope my purchase went through.

    • Another Sarah

      My site crashed too, and so I called up customer service. They said not to fret, if it’s all sold out at your city, you could go to groupon in another city and buy it if it’s still there. They are experiencing record traffic this morning :-)

    • Clerky

      Anyone know if Nordstrom Rack has good Black Friday sales? My nearest Rack is about 45 minutes away, but I’m considering going on Black Friday and buying this coupon if the BF sales are good enough.

      • Another Laura

        I got a postcard…says that the Rack will open at 7a.m. and are having a sale.

    • Anon

      Fine print says although the $50 value expires 12/31/2010, the $25 you actually spend on it doesn’t expire then, just the $25 they are giving for free.

  3. AIMS

    I’m sorry that skirt doesn’t even hang right in the picture. I wouldn’t wear it to work. Makes me think of the “career separates” in the old Newport News catalogs.

  5. nonA

    I have a jersey skirt that I wear with t-shirts and flip-flops on the weekends in the summer. Its great for that but I couldn’t imagine wearing one to work.

  6. chix pix

    Agree – Ann Taylor sale is the best.
    I don’t quite see the point of wearing a very shapeless skirt.

  7. housecounsel

    The Nordstrom Rack groupon has messed up the site!

    I agree that this skirt is pretty shapeless.

  8. associate

    Threadjack question…

    I’ve been asked to fly cross country for a client. I’ll be 28.5 wks pregnant. All sources say travel is ok until later, but I’m still nervous about it. Any ladies been there?

    • RoadWarriorette

      I have not, but a coworker traveled until she was around 8 months (sorry, don’t know how many weeks) and everything was fine. Talk to your doctor at your next appointment and double check, but there shouldn’t be any problem. Good luck!!

    • L

      I traveled at 28 weeks – long drive, not flying – and it was fine. :) Make sure to keep your doc’s number handy in case anything happens, and talk to him/her ahead of time to see if he/she has any suggestions. Also, get up and walk around the plane at least once every hour – and consider wearing support hose (from medical supply store – yes, godawful ugly, but they are great for preventing blood clots on planes) on the plane.

      I would also make sure to have a rolling bag so you are not schlepping a huge bag around. Good luck!

    • Midori

      I flew at 34 weeks, no problems. Just drink lots of water and pick an aisle seat in case of resulting needs for the lavatory. Staying hydrated was the only thing that kept the ankle swelling at bay. I got godawful sick (stomach flu) while I was out of town, so having the doc’s number in my phone came in handy. Ended up not necessitating a trip to the ER, but it was nice to at least be able to get reassurance.

    • Anon

      In each of my pregnancies, I have flown, lots, through 36 weeks. You are fine so long as you get up an extra time or two and drink some water. That said, I always travelled so late because I really wanted to — the opportunity I was getting was worth being a little uncomfortable on the plane. I feel badly for you if you don’t have much of a choice.

      • anon

        The concern is premature labor. It happens even in healthy, low-risk pregnancies, and if it does, your baby will be stuck in the NICU of a hospital far from your home for months, as will you.

        • Ann

          Please, no fearmongering. Yes, premature labor happens but that’s not a reason for women to be housebound in late pregnancy. Miscarriages happen too, but I wouldn’t advise a woman in early pregnancy not to fly.

          • Midori

            Well, anon’s right–that is the main reason doctor’s express concern over late-term flying. It’s a small chance, though, and even if it happened, it’s not the end of the world. There are great, capable hospitals with NICUs everywhere in the country, so odds are you’d be in good hands in the unlikely event. And even if you stay home, as I learned, you may end up giving birth in a hospital different from the one you had planned to. It’s a calculated risk, and one most people are willing to take.

          • Midori

            And I seriously just misused an apostrophe. My profound apologies. I hate that.

        • Anon

          Oh, pregnancy and fear-mongering. Just consider it a little warm up for when you have kids and you keep being inundated by stories of (extremely rare) stranger abduction and fatal playground accidents …

    • Ann

      I flew to Florida on vacation with a girlfriend when I was 30 weeks and it was fine. Be sure you can put the seatbelt on “low and tight across your lap” UNDER your belly – it’s OK to ask for an extender if you need one to feel comfortable, depending on how big you are. Also, make sure you either get up and walk the aisle once an hour or so, or do some of those “seat exercises” in the back of the in-flight magazine, because you are more prone to blood clots when you’re pregnant. I felt fine, went with full clearance from my OB, and had a great time. The only problem I had was every old lady on the plane wanted to touch my belly which bugged, but other than that everyone was really nice. As long as you’ve been having an uncomplicated pregnancy, there shouldn’t be any issue at all.

      • Ballerina girl

        You could also tell the client that you’re 28.5 weeks pregnant and not comfortable flying. It’s your health, not the client’s. I doubt anyone would hold it against you.

        • dm58

          I really, really think that this response is best case scenario. If you are in a certain field (law!), and competing against men for partner, I assure you that turning down this assignment at 28.5 weeks will most certainly be held against you. No one will say it out loud, but it will hurt.

          I’m not saying you should jeopardize you health (if you feel it would, which I don’t), I’m just cautioning you to be aware of the consequences.

          • a lawyer

            Agreed. 36, 40 weeks completely different story–you would not even be asked, but you will have enough later times that you really need to play the “pregnant” card that I would hold it til later. No offense meant. I am the only woman in a 7 attorney firm, and I am confident about how it will be taken.

    • Not Fearmongering

      And I am not trying to fear monger here, but you should be aware of the new TSA guidelines and potential for the full body scan. I do not know if there is any research out there speaking directly to the effect on pregnancies, but it is something you should be aware of, should you choose to fly, as it does increase radiation. Perhaps check if the airports you will be flying to and from will be utilizing these machines. Of course, the alternative is always the pat down.

      • Samantha

        You can choose to have a pat-down instead of the backscatter technology scan. A recent NYT article says that it has not been convincingly proven that the different type of radiation doesn’t pose significant health risks.
        I flew recently, am pregnant, and opted for the pat-down. She asked me (before starting to pat) whether I had any sensitive areas. I told her I was pregnant. She still patted my belly pretty thoroughly (guess I could’ve hidden something there, huh!).
        Anyways, some people are uncomfortable with the pat-down, but I’d suggest opting for it just to be on the safe side.

    • Anon for this one

      As a former flight attendant you can fly safely, so long as your pregnancy is progressing normally until about 7 months, although F/A’s aren’t permitted to fly after 6.5 months. Beyond that their airline may require something from your doctor, so I’d check with your specific airline for travel document requirements.

      • Anon

        As the Anon who flew to 36 weeks — I always did have a note from my dr post 30 weeks or wo (though no one ever asked to see it).

    • North Shore

      I remember flying when I was hugely pregnant. I was walking down the aisle to try to get to the bathroom (because I had to go like every half hour) and got stuck trying to squeeze aside so the flight attendant could fit by me. I was trying to suck in my stomach, but of course you can’t suck in a rock-hard pregnant belly, and it was totally awkward because the flight attendant couldn’t fit by me and gave me a dirty look. So you might want to make sure you have an aisle seat, relatively close to the bathrooms.

    • AN

      You may need a doctor’s letter – some airlines don’t want to take a risk and may ask to see it. I travelled at 25 weeks (14 hr nonstop) and was fine! Take care and remember to drink lots of water, walk around etc.

  9. anon

    You may need a doctor’s letter – some airlines don’t want to take a risk and may ask to see it. I travelled at 25 weeks (14 hr nonstop) and was fine! Take care and remember to drink lots of water, walk around etc.

  10. E

    Ladies, today I put on my top inside out.
    INSIDE OUT, and didn’t notice until I was doing my makeup! Close call there, since I sometimes don’t put on makeup at home at all.

    TGIF.

    • surrounded by lawyers

      Ever put on two different earrings and not noticed until a colleague clued you in? ;)

      • associate

        or worn a navy blue skirt and black jacket, but didn’t realize it until you were walking into court. doh.

        • AIMS

          I have put on 2 different shoes & walked out of my office. In 2 different heel heights, mind you.

          Very difficult to try walking back gracefully down the hallway after that :)

          • Ann

            Done the two completely different shoes thing before many times, especially right after my son was born and I was totally sleep-deprived. I finally just ended up wearing one pair pretty much all the time and just leaving them by the front door :)

            I have also worn two mismatched suit pieces to work before – dark brown and dark navy that looked the same in low light. It looked awful when I got into the fluorescent lighting in my office. I tried to stay behind desks the rest of the day so my lower half was hidden.

      • Bridget

        I have actually put on two different shoes and went to the office, with nothing else to change into, forced to wear them all day. They were the same brand, same heel high, similar color — and one was open-toe and one was closed-toe. D’oh!

    • eaopm3

      It’s one of those days, isn’t it? I have the simple task of highlighting depositions today… and I have screwed it up five times already. Thank god highlighter doesn’t show up on copies. Oy vey.

    • Midori

      I did this yesterday. Went to the gym between work and an evening meeting, and then looked down during the meeting and realized I was looking at the underside of my shirt’s hem. I just pulled my jacket closer and hoped that it wasn’t that obvious if I hadn’t noticed it before. Lol!

    • Amy

      I was once so tired in the morning that I didn’t realize I’d only shaved one leg.

    • cbackson

      One time I got to work and realized that I just…hadn’t put my bra on.

      Thank god there’s a Ross down the street!

      • boo

        Once I realized during the middle of an interview/lunch during law school that I wasn’t wearing a bra! Good thing I had a suit coat.

      • Ru

        That has happened to me as well, unfortunately. Thankfully, my headscarf can conceal the lack, sort of. Though once, I almost left my house without a headscarf. That would definitely have been an interesting day.

        My dad told me that once, one of his fellow female professors forgot her shirt. Yes, you read that right – her shirt. She came to work with her bra on and a jacket. Her husband (luckily for her) worked in the same department so he lent her a labcoat that she kept on the entire day.

        • Lana Lang

          I forgot my shirt once. For context, I walk to work so wear a different top on the way in. Packed the shirt, wrapped in pashmina, decided I didn’t want pashmina before I left home, took out of bag and shirt was still in it.

          Had a suit jacket which, thankfully, had a nice high-ish neckline and I managed to sew myself into it…

    • jcb

      Oh my gosh. Too funny. Last winter I was halfway to work before I realized that I was so cold bc – I forgot to put on my socks. In Chicago, in the winter.

    • MelD

      It could be worse. When I was in 9th grade, my French teacher came to work in her slip only. This was before the slip dress was at all in and we were all looking at each other wondering whether she had just become fashion forward or forgot her dress. In senior year, she finally admitted she’d forgotten to put on the dress. No, we had not forgotten.

    • I hear you

      It’s okay, today my heel caught inside my pant cuff and I stumbled REALLY badly/nearly tripped to the floor in front of two, older male colleagues.

      • Cat

        ooh, we had a long series of comments about people catching their heels in pants cuffs awhile back. I actually took the advice of one of the commenters and had the cuffs on my “worst offender” pair of pants — I tripped 3x, fortunately witnessed only 2x and a full-on fall on a sidewalk just 1x — stitched shut in such a way that it still looked like a “real” cuff. I feel so much more comfortable in them now!

      • cbackson

        Did that at any interview, but I ACTUALLY fell to the floor. But I got the job!

        • Another Laura

          I spilled my water bottle on my interviewer (we were at Starbucks) but still got the job.

    • Preggo Angie

      That’s ok, I somehow have an ink stain on my sweater cupping my right boob like an ink underwire. My Tide-to-Go pen has now made it a wet ink underwire. Thank goodness I’m not meeting with anyone today and can just hole up in my office.

      • Mella

        I drove in from city 1 and a co-worker drove in from city 2, and we met in city 3 to give an internal presentation. It was a little nervewracking because the overhead projector died while we were standing up there. Fortunately I had been the creator of the slides so I knew what to say and when in absence of the visuals.

        We got through it, walked to the parking lot to stash stuff in our trunks, and I felt something odd on my sleeve. It was the dry-cleaner’s stapled-on hangtag.

    • eplawyer

      Thank goodness for Corporette where we can all admit our boo-boos from not being fully together sometimes when we dress.

      I’ve done the two different shoes, two different socks, tripped on the hem thing too.

      One time I was walking down the street and my slip slipped down. I just stepped out of it, stuffed it in my purse and kept going.

      I still catch my heels in my hems. If the hem rips at work, I staple it shut. Really. Put the part of the staple that folds over on the outside so you don’t catch the ends on your nylons and there is less metal to show.

        • anon

          Sorry, went back to correct the spelling of “Morocco” … and it posted by mistake.

          When traveling in Morocco, don’t wear a wrap skirt. A co-worker had hers come apart and she was standing there in a thong. Oh my.

      • skippy pea

        hahaha. This is all soo funny.
        I have totally done the heel caught in cuff thing.

        Once after lunch hour workout, I tried to wear my trousers with my heels on and the heel tore the lining leaving long gash thigh to calf. Loved those trousers too. :(

      • JessC

        One time I was wearing a skirt suit and walking to work in the morning. I was wearing a new pair of panties – rather silky and, as it turns out, a bit large. With about 2-3 blocks remaining, I can feel that the panties have slipped entirely off my bum. I had to walk the rest of the way with my legs tightly clenched together to keep my drawers from ending up on the sidewalk.

      • a lawyer

        I’ve posted this once, but my thigh highs fell to my ankles while walking into the federal courthouse. I know– Thigh Highs!! but it was Gulfport, MS in September, 95 degrees. Brand new thigh highs–lesson learned :)

  11. Cat

    Seeking advice on a new hair dryer — mine started smoking today! I am fortunate to have fairly easy to manage hair and am looking for something in the big-box price range (let’s just say $30-40 max, although I haven’t shopped in 6-7 years). Anyone particularly happy with theirs?

    • KM

      I have the Hot Tools animal skin hairdryer from Ulta and have been very pleased. It’s quiet, powerful and dries my hair a lot faster than my old hair dryer. I also like that it came with both a difuser (sp?) and an air concentrator, since I have wavy hair that I wear both wavy and straight. It was a little more than you were looking to spend, I think it was between $60 and $70, but you can usually find a 20% off coupon.

    • Jen L

      I like the Conair cordkeeper dryer that has the folding handle. I have a ton of hair, but its really strong. I used my old one for about 4 years until it wore out and bought a new one a few months ago. I think it was $15.

      • anon

        I recently bought the Conair Infinit Pro AC Motor Hair Dryer. $29.99 but works like a professional hair dryer.

    • Lyssa

      I went through a big round of them last year (I dropped my very old one, and, when I turned it back on- Sparks and actual tiny flames! I deliberately went outside and put it directly into the dumpster, so I wouldn’t be sitting at my desk imagining it roaring back to life and burning my house down for the rest of the day.)

      Anyway, after buying and returning several, I found that the ionic ones just made my hair (straight, not usually greasy) look limp and oily. I was finally happy with a bare bones Conair (2 heat settings, cool blast, black, mid-sized), which cost about $20 at Wal-Mart.

    • Cat

      thanks all — I’m interested that Alyssa thought the ionic made her hair look limp — has anyone else had that experience? I have fine hair(although I have a lot of hair, so it looks thicker than it “should”), and it is not particularly frizz-prone, so I don’t want to add “extra” shine and give up volume.

    • Kate

      Ulta always seems to have a hair dryer on sale for $39.99. Seem to recall they have display models which helped me find one that I liked button placement, weight, etc.

    • Lemon

      I agree with the Conair recommendations. I use my Conair dryer every day and it’s a workhorse for sure. I’ve used three different ones since I was a teenager and they last forever.

  12. Victoria

    Eh. I have this skirt. It’s fine for flip-flops (and I wore it with ballet flats in the summer to my very casual nonprofit office) but not much more. Don’t be fooled into think it’s a legit work skirt!

  13. Anon for this one

    Ladies:

    I’d love to hear from any other junior attorneys who are in therapy and how you handle being out of the office for an hour weekly. I just started therapy for anxiety issues. Today I told someone I was working with I had take off “for an appointment” at eleven but would be back in an hour. Some days I don’t think I will have to say anything (except telling my assistant I’m out for an hour) but there are only so many times I can have a doctor’s appointment.

    I’m considering saying I’m going to the chiropractor (which I have actually done in the past) or physical therapy but the latter would be blatant lying and I’m not comfortable with that.

    I’m also considering saying “I’m going to therapy for my fear of flying” but if I stay in therapy past my upcoming scheduled vacation then I can’t really use that excuse anymore.

    Ideas? My therapist does not have night/weekend hours at this time and I don’t want to switch.

    • Anon L

      Just say you’re taking an early lunch, and if possible stay an hour later at work on the days you have a therapy appointment.

    • jcb

      I would just leave it at “an appointment”, and be clear about when you are leaving and returning. You don’t have to explain your whereabouts every moment of every day.

      • Former MidLevel

        Completely agreed. When I was in BigLaw, I found that the magic word is “meeting.” It’s broad enough to truthfully cover a variety of appointments and other commitments, including ones that are scheduled outside of your office.

        • cbackson

          This. I have a therapy appointment every other week, and I just call it a meeting.

          • Anon for this one

            Are you senior enough to have work appointments that your superiors do not attend? I fear that if I say I have a meeting whomever I am speaking with will say “which case, who prepped you for it, etc.”

          • cbackson

            I’m a third-year in biglaw (transactional, not litigation). But I work for a lot of different people, and they don’t generally even ask about the projects I’m doing for other people. I *definitely* don’t get asked for details if I mention that I have a meeting – I’d find that pretty invasive, TBH.

    • MelD

      I’d suggest trying something around lunchtime- like 12:30-1:30 or 1-2, or taking the first/last appointment of the day. My office doesn’t have particularly rigid hours for attorneys and no one really thinks twice if someone comes in at 9:15 once a week or leaves at 4 once a week. I think it looks a little more suspicious if you go at different times each week. If you do it regularly, they may think you want to go to a certain gym class each week.

    • Lyssa

      If you keep it around 11, you can just call it a lunch- that’d be your best bet, I’d say. I’d be wary about saying Chiro or PT, because people are liable to ask about it. A lot of people have back/whatever problems- you’d hate to have someone ask you who you see when they’re looking for recommendations!

      Personally, I don’t think “therapy for my fear of flying” is any better than just plain “therapy”- I wouldn’t want to discuss either one with non-close co-workers. I think it’s fair of you to just call it a doctor’s visit and refuse to discuss it further (although be ready for busybodies who may ask questions or be concerned that you have a health problem- try to make it sound like you just need regular monitoring for some reason or another, which is close enough to the truth.)

      • Louise

        And if someone is really nosy enough to ask, just smile and say, “I prefer not to discuss my doctor’s appointments. It would be a HIPPA violation.”

    • Anon

      Not an attorney, but IMO you can simply establish that you have a regular medical appointment at X time, if anyone asks. Therapy, especially to address an anxiety issue that is impacting your life and your ability to travel, is medical care. But disclosing more than you need to seems unwise, unless someone asks in a way that seems legit.

    • Elle 2

      I second lawgirl’s lunch-time appointment suggestion.

      If that doesn’t work with your therapist’s schedule, I would recommend just saying you have an “out of office commitment.” My secretary always knows where I am and I am more specific when I’m going to be out for a few days… but to everyone else I use the same “out of office commitment” phrase for everything – whether it’s a client meeting, court appearance, doctor appointment, playing hooky etc… That way, the hope is at least, people won’t be able to tell WHY I am out of the office and will eventually assume that it’s a client-related reason since that is the case 95% of the time. But frankly, it’s a very rare occassion that anyone actually cares where I am and I usually wind up not telling anyone other than my assistant anyway!

    • anon

      I have a doctor’s apt weekly and I too try to schedule at the lunch hour. I tell my assistant I have an appointment.

      I worry that am apts look like I am arriving late to the casual observer. Going out in the middle of the day looks like lunch.

      You do not need to tell people the reason. I recall on the Hiring Partner blog, I think she suggested “appointment”. There is no need to TMI at the professional level.

    • Anon for this one

      Thank you all. I do have to tell my secretary when I am out of the office but not why. She needs to know whether I can be reached and when I will be back – office policy. I plan to just go around lunch time with no other explanation. Without fail, however, I end up with someone superior in my office or calling me into theirs by coincidence. Today for example at 10:40 I just interrupted and said, I’m sorry, I have an 11:00 appointment and have to leave but we can chat when I return. If that happens with the same person, even by coincidence, too often, I know they are going to get curious.

      I do have another health problem that many of my coworkers know about (and for good reason and not TMI.) I just don’t want them to worry that all these appointments (if they hear about them) are because of that condition and think I am getting ill again – or pregnant or something.

      I’ll try not to tell people when I’m going and just go at lunch time but I was looking for answers for those times where I just have to in order to get out of the office. “Appointment” sounds good.

      People at my office tend to be oversharers in general. With the whole “tell your secretary when you leave” thing people are always saying “off to the vet,” “off to day care,” “going to the pharmacy, call my cell, etc.” It seemed odd to just say “off to an appointment.” But oh well.

      • Samantha

        Yoga class (back pain?) or physical therapy seems like a good idea to me. I know you don’t want to lie but I’m in an office of oversharers as well and it looks odd to be so uncommunicative.

        • anon for this

          I was in my first year when I was regularly going to therapy for depression/anxiety brought on by a myriad of factors. Meanwhile, I was also getting a burning sensation in my wrists and forearms – hello pre-carpal tunnel and tendonitis from long days of doc review.

          I had HR bring the ergonomic guy in, set the desk up correctly, made a wee bit of a show of doing some quick daily exercises with my exercise bands (in that I left the door open while I did some stretches), and would just disappear for “physical therapy” appointments. Some of the appointments were physical therapy, but most were mental therapy.

          And now I have a new doctor who I see at 9pm on a weekday. Love it. I hated having to “keep myself together” during therapy because the last bloody thing I wanted to do was to cry in therapy, have my makeup go all over the damn place, and be an emotion wreck thinking about my abandonment issues all afternoon while at work. I also didn’t have the chance to reflect on what we had discussed in session because I’d have to go back to my desk and work. I really think it made my therapy a lot less effective. This evening thing is a lot better.

  14. Lawgirl

    I scheduled my appointments for 12:30…. You might want to consider moving them back a bit, so you’re heading out the door with the lunch herd. I’ve also done 5/6pm appointments, and I just leave and say: “I have a commitment.”

    • Anon for this one

      Other problem – there is no lunch herd. My office is very “eat at your desk” though there is no official policy.

  15. Anon Today

    A little off topic, but would LOVE some words of encouragement. Waiting on CA bar results (not until 6 tonight!) and am driving myself crazy realizing how humiliating it will be to fail….

    Anyone else been there recently?

    • jcb

      Not recently, but maybe this will help – I know some people from my class didn’t pass, and I cannot for the life of me tell you who it was though I knew at the time. A few years out, I really have no recollection.

    • Midori

      two years ago. Try to make yourself busy while you wait so you’re not just sitting in front of the compy hitting “refresh” every 6 seconds. That’s soooo bad for your blood pressure. Go to a movie or something that gets out an hour after results are posted, and then go look. Have a bottle of wine ready for celebration/regrouping after the results. Do not have a handle of anything over 20 proof available.

    • Mac

      Just got NY results a few weeks back, so I know exactly how you feel. Hang in there! I know how useless it is to say don’t worry about it, so try not to worry too much. :/ You’re almost there!

    • boo

      Just in case the results are disappointing, my husband failed the first time he took the bar and it was sooooo far from the end of the world. It is so completely forgotten and not a big deal now 5 years later, although he was embarrased at the time (though he wasn’t the only one of course). He crushed it the second time around.

    • Jen L

      I’ve been there. 2 weeks ago. I had an entire plan worked out in my head about moving back across the country to live with my parents while studying for the February exam.

      Luckily NY results sort of snuck up on everyone and were accidentally released and I passed. When I received the email I was weirdly calm about it although I had been freaking out for hours (there was an entire Above the law ordeal that day with the accidental release). I actually finished my laundry, tidied my room, and took a shower while the email was just sitting in my inbox unopened because I wanted to be able to immediately celebrate or crawl into bed and cry. By that time I was about 50/50 on passing or failing in my head but the entire day leading up to it I was convinced that I failed. I passed.

      The freaking out about failing is normal, but 6pm tonight when you’ve received final word that you passed it will feel fantastic. Good luck!

    • Anon Today

      Thanks for these replies. Right now I’m going back and forth between feeling normal, and feeling like bursting into tears in my office. And to mac and Jen L, CONGRATULATIONS! It’s always so great to hear from people who passed.

      • Jen L

        Thanks! Thinking good thoughts for you and all California bar takers today!

    • Another Sarah

      Do something today! Go to the zoo, go shopping, go to lunch with friends, go running…the more you the faster your day will go.

      It’s not humiliating to fail. Rather, I’m not humiliated. It sucks for a couple hours, but it’s not humiliating. I found out I failed VA last month, took the rest of the day off, had coffee/lunch with my good, talkative friend (distraction), and then went to dinner with 2 good friends, one of whom watched another friend pass away the day before (put failing into perspective). And then it was Thursday, the world didn’t end, and life goes on. The bar is not an intelligence test, as you will see with the surprises for the people who pass/fail it. In the grand scheme of life, it’s a whole lot better than some other things that could happen…

      • Anon Today

        This is totally true, and I know that I’m being dramatic. The worst part is knowing you’re being dramatic and not being able to do anything about it!

        Either way, I just want to know already. But thanks for the suggestions. Keeping busy is definitely the way to go. I’m sorry to hear about your results, but am so glad to hear that you’re feeling positive about things. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me be positive as well.

  16. Anon

    Okay, I’m bugged.
    There’s a 25% off and free shipping code for Talbots today, and I went to go get a couple things I’d been looking at that had been on sale. They’re still on sale, but the prices are jacked up at least 25% (and higher in some cases), compared to what they had been last week.

    I am getting really annoyed about Talbots taking things out of sales when the prices go down to a certain point, and changing prices around when discount codes are active and then dropping them again when the code expires. I realize it’s their prerogative but I feel like it’s disingenuous.

    • Midori

      I HAAAAATE this. After a while I stop falling for the promotions to get me in the store, and it backfires because I refuse to buy anything full-price from them again.

      Additional (but less egregious) annoyance: When companies knock prices 20 or 50 cents just so they can put the items in the “sale” category. Worst offenders I’ve noticed: Target and The Limited.

    • AIMS

      I also hate this!
      I can’t think of a company that is worse about this than Talbots.
      They also randomly have items appear and disappear all the time.
      I try to just wait for their red hanger sales or use the full price promotions (e.g., 30% off all coats, etc.) so that I don’t feel as bad shopping there — otherwise, it makes me really hate them.

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