Splurge Monday’s Workwear Report: Crepe Satin Blouse
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
I love the drama of this tie-neck blouse from Saint Laurent. If I were wearing this, I would want to keep the focus on the fabulous top, so I’d keep the rest of my outfit classic and tailored. I’m leaning toward some slim-fitting pants to balance out the proportions of the top, perhaps with a gorgeous trench coat over the top?
The top is $1,990 at Saks Fifth Avenue and is available in lucky sizes.
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine's Day!):
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- M.M.LaFleur – Save up to 25% on select suiting, this weekend only
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy's – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
I’ve been seeing in GoFundMe and some similar apps that kids use for fundraising that a 30% tip is now showing up as a standard ask. As I understand it, the credit card fee is only about 3% (at least going by charitable contributions that I make by card and cover the fee). And donees don’t even get 100% of the donations (in youth sports where they sell things, their keep rate is only 50%, for straight donations, I can’t think it is higher than 75%). I’ve gotten to the point where I’d rather give cash (through Venmo or otherwise) if giving to a person or to the organization. The grabbiness is just souring to me.
Just move the slider to 0, I have no qualms about that with go fund me. I refuse to tip for that.
+1 tipping on GFM is ridiculous. Just select no tip.
Tipping expectations are ridiculous. Everyone has their hand out these days. I’ve never given to a gofundme so I’m not familiar with the site, is there a way to just not tip? If so, do that. I have no problem adjusting the standard ask when I encounter it.
I’m here for disliking GoFundMes (that they need to exist for some, and that others who don’t need them use them), tip requests/expectations for anything that wasn’t traditional to tip for 30 years ago, and tip suggestions at percentages that make 20% look stingy.
I try to frequent businesses that pay their employees fairly and don’t expect the customer to top up meager pay, though there aren’t a lot of choices for that in my area. I also vote for politicians who I think will vote for a better social safety net.
I hear you on tips that make 20% look stingy.
The way percentages work, if eating out costs 30% more than it did five years ago because of inflation, the tip will also be 30% higher.
I went to a restaurant in Denver where the suggested tip amounts were 22%, 25% and 30%. That was wild to me – I think 20% is standard and perfectly fine unless the server goes way above and beyond. If there are 3 suggested tip options, 20% should be at least the middle one.
I’ve been prompted to tip at a self-pay kiosk. Nope, nope, nope.
Just don’t do it then. I don’t understand the people who get their undies in a bunch about something that you can easily dismiss and move past.
It is a software thing. Why are people so pressed?
A tip on a donation?!? That’s just … an additional donation.
But not to the donee though.
Who gets it, then? Does the whole tip go to the platform?
Yes
It goes to Go Fund Me, not the recipient.
I believe the tip requests are the doing of the payment processors, which take a cut .
The tip is how gofundme makes money. They don’t take a percentage of the donations. But the tip is optional
I only have one meeting today and should use the “60% of my org took PTO bc schools are closed” day to knock a bunch of random stuff off my to-do list. Instead I’m refreshing the comments hoping for amusement. Motivation, where are you?!
Oh, same. And I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon with my butt firmly planted on the couch. IDK where my motivation went, but I am just not feeling it.
Oh no. Maybe make a list of 5 things to do and then take yourself to coffee? Or change location?
I’m in annual leave and am trying not to work (my kid is occupied by the neighbour kids) but i know I have a pile of nonsense waiting for me tomorrow. So I’m sorting photos for a long overdue “annual” photo book. My child is 6.5 and I’ve yet to make one.
I’m lacking motivation too, but I don’t even have the excuse of a holiday. It’s a normal work day for me and my husband, and the kids have school (they were originally supposed to be off, but it ended up being a make up day for a snow day last month).
Other than Chase Sapphire, what are the better credit cards available right now?
DH no longer flies Delta so having a Delta-based rewards card isn’t doing us any good. I’m looking for a replacement card and not sure which direction to go. Are any of the hotel ones good? Or are there ones affiliated with banks that offer better rewards?
I think Chase Sapphire Reserve is generally seen as the best credit card for frequent travelers. CapitalOne Venture is also good, although I believe you can’t transfer the points to US airlines, which may or may not be a sticking point for you.
I don’t like the hotel ones, because (like the airline-branded cards) you really have to be loyal to the hotel brand to make it worth it. I stay in Marriott hotels pretty frequently, but like having the option to stay in boutique or family-owned hotels (especially in Europe) and for Caribbean beach resorts I often feel like you get a better value by going with a smaller chain vs Marriott/Hilton. Enough of our travel is in Europe and the Caribbean that it just doesn’t make sense to me to have a hotel-branded card.
If you don’t travel a lot, then a cash rewards card may be more valuable to you than one with travel-related perks?
+ 1. I like the chase double cash back, where I get 2% on everything, since I don’t travel much
I got the Capital One Venture card this year, mostly because my global entry is up for renewal this year and they cover it for “free” (basically the annual cost of the credit card is about the same as the global entry application), and I’ll be traveling a lot domestically and internationally this year. So far it’s working alright, but if you won’t be doing a lot of travel I would not recommend it.
I really like the shape of this, but a 70 percent acetate 30 percent viscose blend blouse shouldn’t cost two thousand dollars. Even if the whole thing is hand sewn, that would be bad value for money.
The fabric content alone means we could find the same thing at a discount store for $20.
At $2K I want something my great-grandchildren could still wear multiple times a week (thinking of the sweater I inherited as a teen originally worn by my great-grandmother that had also heen worn by both my grandmother and my mother before me)
The heat from my kid’s side eye could melt acetate.
So I guess now we know that the board not only skews attorney, but skews government attorney.
I think a lot of private sector employees have today off. Most of my friends are in tech and aren’t working. I work for the state government (not an attorney though) and we have to work today. It’s not a holiday in my state.
ugh I’m in tech and do not have the day off.
Yeah I have a ton of friends in tech, they’re all working today.
some of us are around. I didn’t even know what holiday it was (no kids so no kid school holidays) until I got sale emails.
or readers with kids who are off today, so they had to take off/are too busy juggling to post
I kinda thought that this board skewed no-kid (or not really skewed, but a the world is mainly no/one kid and that kid comes later and this board is representative of that broader world).
What? Nearly half of US households have kids under 18 at home.
Yes, but this board is not a representative cross-section of the US. Where I work, most women quit to stay home (largely because the juggle is so hard even with local family) before their kids are in kindergarten. It’s just a LOT in high-pressure jobs (or really any job). Most dads I work with have wives who stay at home so they can kill it at work — working moms are up against that in their reviews.
I understand this board isn’t representative of the US (although there are tons of working moms here, myself included) but I was reacting to the “world is mainly no/one kid.” The US is 40% households with kids and many other countries have more families and larger families than the US.
What does one kid vs multiple kids have to do with anything? Even if you only have one kid, you still need to figure out childcare for days off school.
Multiple kids means your kids are likely not all in the same schools which means inconsistent days off.
Having had one kid for an extended period and now 3 kids, one kid is much closer to no kids than it is to 3+ kids.
I dunno, I know several moms of 3-4 kids and they all say the hardest tr*nsition was 0 to 1 kid. 3 is harder for sure, but 1 kid is not like no kids.
I also think it’s rare to not have your kids all in the same school district. It happens, but it’s not the norm, at least not where I live. So as far as school holidays, there’s no difference between 1 and 3+ kids for many people because they all have the same days off.
In our area there are variations in the days off between schools within the same district. Like main holidays are the same but PD days and PTI days are totally different.
Banks and insurance companies take the holiday too.
I’m a government attorney but we are working today.
Not a U.S. federal government attorney, I assume, as they are off due to the U.S. federal holiday today.
Some US state and local governments don’t recognize this holiday.
That’s wild! I’ve worked at all levels of government (currently a fed) but always had all of the federal holidays off at a minimum (one locality I worked for also gave off for Good Friday).
In my state we get Good Friday instead of Presidents Day.
My private sector law firm has the day off but I’m working bc I have a Big Thing later this week.
I’m in government so I’m off today but I’d say 75% of my private sector friends are working. Those who are off work are in finance jobs that follow the stock market, are government contractors, or are teachers. My tech, healthcare, other finance, engineering, business, friends are all working.
With the exception of a 22 month stint in corporate America, I’ve always been in government. My corporate job only offered a few holidays and nothing made me crankier than working on federal holidays. I worked for a F30 company that was making record setting profits. Why couldn’t they just give the regular holidays? Especially since all of the schools in our area are closed on Presidents and Columbus Days too. It wouldn’t cost the company that much and would do a ton for morale!
I’m an accountant and we’re not off today, but that’s because of the time of year.
i’m in higher ed and i’m not off today and students have classes
Same at my university
Universities are weird abut this holiday. I’ve worked at places where nobody got it off, where classes were cancelled but staff worked, and where it was a full holiday (but grad students and faculty mostly came in anyway, though sometimes with kids in tow).
I think it’s correlated to whether staff get extended time off at the winter holidays. I don’t get any minor holidays like Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day or President’s Day, but we have a nearly two week winter shutdown where the university is closed and all staff get paid time off, so I can’t complain. The higher ed staff I know who have today off mainly don’t get much (if any) time off at winter break beyond the official Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
That’s probably correct. One place I worked explicitly gives time at the holidays by taking away Presidents Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, etc.
Orrrrr, the people who have off are commenting. I am private but can’t do much business with govt offices closed.
Does anyone have a vacuum they love? I was thinking of a Dyson cordless but didn’t realize there are like 100 different kinds. We have a toddler and will have a dog at somepoint within the next 2 years I’m sure so good with hair would also be good. I was thinking cordless because we are going to have 3 floors in the new house we are moving into (all hardwood or lvp
no cordless suggestion, but I love my miele with the power head for my 2 cat household but you have to get the one that is manufactured in Germany. the slightly cheaper one is made in China and not as high quality.
We have the Dyson V15 for our four story house (75% wood + rugs, 25% high pile carpet) for about 4 years. It works well for our purposes and is also super light for carrying up and down the stairs. Holds up decently well to cat hair volume wise, but if you have a high-shed dog I’d get the expanded canister option. My one complaint is that you have to hold down the trigger, but you can easily solve that with one of the Velcro cord keeper loops to hold it down when vacuuming a big room.
I have several of the Bissell 2998, available on Amaz0n as well as at many other big box stores. It has over 8,000 five star reviews. Because it is relatively inexpensive–under $200–you can buy more than one and keep them on different floors. Abra at Cap Hill Style recently reviewed this vacuum or a very similar one loved it–more thorough than her high end vacuum. I love the fact that it needs no bags, just empty the tank. And it picks up dog’s fur like nobodies business. I highly recommend!
We bought a Sebo for our house, and have not looked back. It is not cordless but the suction power is amazing. We like that it can be serviced at many local vacuum shops, whereas with anything Miele you have to go through an authorized seller of which there are none in our geographic area.
Agree, the Sebo vacuums are great.
Roomba. We have a Miele too, but we only drag it out every couple months vs. running the roomba 4-5 days a week. We have cats, so the vaccuum that gets used frequently is way better than the perfect vacuum.
I love our Dyson V8 Absolute. It’s 5+ years old and works great, and I like the different attachments for carpets and hardwood. Just recently it began not holding a charge when I use the “max” setting (the super-sucker-upper), but the “regular” setting is fine for 99% of my needs.
Cordless vacuums are really just for touch-ups between real vacuumings. They don’t have enough battery power to do more than a couple of rooms without recharging, and even the best ones don’t clean as well as a real vacuum. We have a corded Oreck for weekly vacuuming and a cordless Dyson for quick dog hair pick-ups.
Your favorite will be whatever you can afford to buy 3 of, one for each level of your house. Trust me; it is game-changing. I have a basement vacuum, main floor vacuum and upstairs vacuum. Two are Sharks and one is a Dyson something-or-another. They all work fine, and the fact that I don’t have to carry it up and down the stairs means I vacuum more often. (And, bonus, I am not dinging the walls of my stairwells.)
+1000
I disagree, but only because my stairs seem to need more vacuuming than the rest of my house combined. I swear the stairs magnetically attract dirt!
On the plus side, the cordless is the best invention ever for stairs.
Yes, they do! I don’t know what it is about stairs, some magical combination of gravity and dust particle physics, I guess.
We just bought a Shark for our single-story house with a dog. We have a cordless dyson, but I only use it for quick clean ups or spot cleaning. The Shark does a better job than the Dyson.
I have one of these and it’s the only vacuum I’ve ever truly loved. Best COVID-era purchase ever, kept me from running out of the house screaming at the accumulation of crumbs/paper bits/etc. that no one in my house can see except for me.
We have a Dyson v6 and a Dyson v8. We found both in the trash and love and use both. The v8 is a lot quieter and i like the way the bin empties better, otherwise I find them very similar. You need to replace the batteries periodically, but with a fresh battery either can do our entire 1000 sq ft apartment on the regular, not max, suction setting. We also have a corded Eureka vacuum I use on our carpet but I do not love it nearly as much as the Dysons. Not having a cord makes it so much easier. TL;DR – you don’t need a top of the line Dyson.
PS – we have 3 cats. On hardwood floors, the cat hair is not a problem for the Dyson. Hard surfaces are generally pretty easy to vacuum.
I love my Miele because I have old hardwoods and it has the parquet attachment.
Miele. Not cordless.
Hopefully this will invite robust discussion: at what point of “worn” do you replace things like purses, coats, and shoes (presuming the items are high quality, and not the purse you bought for $20 at Walmart)?
This is brought to mind by a relative who thinks that any minimal sign of wear means the item has “seen better days” and needs to be in the donation bin.
Does it matter if the item is worn professionally versus over the weekend? Or presentation attire versus business casual attire?
When they’re beyond professional help. I’ve had a wool coat re-lined but the exterior still looks fabulous. Heels replaced and tears in the leather (d-mn grates) repaired. Bags conditioned and polished.
But eventually even well-cared-for items wear out – fabric gets stretched or thin looking at pressure points, shoes start looking misshapen, etc. and then out they go.
Shoes go to cobbler for new heels once~
Boots like la canadienne go a few times
Mostly it’s when things are discolored or irreparable
For big ticket items I buy classic simple items that can hold up through trends
I guess I am a repairer at heart.
My Patagonia jacket was sent back to them for repair when the main zipper failed. I purchased gear patches when small holes let the down filling fly out. Now, one of the pocket zippers has failed and I’m going to replace it… sometime.
I have shined my favorite daily wear work leather shoes many times, and tried to purchase a replacement pair, but they weren’t as good so I am wearing them down even sadder.
My Birkenstocks, daily summer wear, lasted for 4 years with complete resoling almost every year. (In terms of price, it is kind of a wash, it was between $65 and $85 for each repair, but I want to keep the local cobbler in business and reduce my new purchases). The leather straps have deteriorated and so I need a totally new pair.
Yep, I’m a repairer as well, sometimes to the point of fault (my boots have been at the cobbler for 10 weeks, after promising 10 days) and I keep believing their promises when I should have just stumped up for another pair 6 weeks ago.
My work stuff is in good shape because I’m wearing it 2x a week max but casual home stuff is often mended and quite worn. I work from home and am just hard on my clothes – I cycle, work in the garden, and just seem to end up with holes somewhere?
As someone who buys primarily second-hand, I have to admit that I love that I benefit from people who think like your relative.
For myself, it really does depend on what the item is and where I wear it. Generally, though, if it can’t be repaired, it needs to be replaced. If the item is still wearable I downgrade it to longewear, otherwise it gets thrown out.
I should note that I keep my clothes for several years.
Same! It keeps me in good clothes and bikes.
Of course there’s a difference between dressy items/items worn professionally and what I’d wear on the weekend, or between what I’d wear when I’m giving a presentation or what I’d wear to sit at my desk and be seen by noone on a holiday Monday when the office is empty.
My items move from pristine, to “not pristine but fine,” to “I think I can get another year out of it,” to “hope no one sees me in this” to “This is embarrassing and must not be worn again.”
I’m the OP and your last paragraph is how I think.
For presentations, I aim for pristine. For everyday office wear or after work events (cocktail hour), I aim for “not pristine but fine” which is where my relative turns up her nose. “I can get another year out of it” – maybe not for meeting days.
I am willing to clean, mend, condition, etc. indefinitely if the item fits me and works well with my life. If it is meh, I won’t put effort or money into keeping it going.
I am also willing to downgrade an item if I really like it but it is no longer in top condition. For instance, one of my favorite work tops has a mark that means it is now good only as a layer, but under a blazer or vest the visible parts are still great so I am happy to keep it in my closet with that restriction. I also tend to shuffle my jeans from “good” wear to just weekends then to yardwork only.
Bold of you to assume that I did not slick down the loose bits of leather on the straps of my $20 Target purse with clear nail polish rather than replace it.
JK. It depends on the thing: how emotionally attached I am to it, how difficult it would be to replace, how expensive it was. I went through a phase several years ago of attempting to learn to mend things after the dog tore open (a) my down coat from Land’s End that was supposed to last me years, because I didn’t want it to lose stuffing and become useless, (b) the duvet cover of an adorable flannel sheet set my parents gave us, and (c) a black cable turtleneck sweater which I’d bought after dreaming of owning a similar one since middle school. I still haven’t mended that one, but I still want to because it’s the exact style I saw the popular girl in middle school rocking and I haven’t seen another I like, even though it came from Gap Factory and is probably not worth the cost of materials. And see above re: purse, because I, like my mother, am pathologically afraid of committing to a new purse. (Maybe soon!)
I don’t keep shoes very long. Cushioning breaks down over time, arch support falls, and my gait will often wear them unevenly. I care too much about my feet to let worn out shoes hurt me. Clothes are different. I’ll usually keep until they don’t fit, stretch, stain, pill, tear, look out of date, fade, etc. When I first purchase things, I prioritize items that are likely to wear well over time (I own few sweaters, cheap t-shirts), fast fashion) or that don’t have staying power (no silver pants or anything super trendy like that).
I get items repaired if my local cobbler or tailor can restore them to an A-list item within a week. If the item is already downgraded to errand-running attire or I could live without it for a two month repair period I don’t bother. I donate anything that I’d be embarrassed about if I ran into an acquaintance at the store or my big boss dropped by the office. I do hang onto some pilly, faded clothes that look presentable on Zoom.
OP here. Loving this discussion!
I asked specifically about things like (presumably high quality) coats, shoes, and purses because, IME, they look absolutely fantastic for the first season/year, and then they kind of truck along in this “obviously not new but most definitely nicer than ‘serviceable'” territory for a long time.
Example: I just replaced my wool coat that was 8 years old. Something about it just looks worn. Thin. Tired.
Would you preemptively leave a man for his own good? I am dating a man more than 10 years younger. It has been two years. I am past the age of childbearing. He could easily start a family now or in the next decade. We talked about this at length several times when we started dating. He has said he would be fine not having children. We had a somewhat casual start but have gotten more serious recently, with conversation more regularly including comments about living together or getting married, the word love is now just part of our vocabulary. And I am falling hard and really envisioning my future with him. But over the weekend he made some offhand comments about “if he had a son,” and while I don’t want to make too much of it, it was jarring to hear this roll off his tongue, suggesting part of his subconscious (or conscious) mind is still thinking that this will be part of his future. I know he will tell me he’s made up his mind to be with me, as he has done, but I don’t want to be the reason he misses out on something so significant if it is something he wants. Should I press him on this? Just end it?
For me it would depend a bit on his age. Many people work through their feelings about whether they want children in their 20s and 30s, this is also developmentally appropriate. If he is 35 or older I wouldn’t worry and would assume his feelings are fairly solid.
I don’t know… Joe Manganiello is in his late 40s and his feelings on this issue seem to have evolved during his marriage to Sofia Vergara. And that’s obviously just one anecdote about a person I don’t know, but I know quite a few men who changed their minds about kids in the 40s or even 50s. Men aren’t constrained by biology the same way women are, so I don’t think age 35 has much significance to them.
+1
I know many men who became interested in children…. and marriage… in their 40’s and even as late as 50’s. My brother is one of them.
OP, I would be a little concerned.
I would probably have another serious discussion in the next few months.
Coughjohnmulaneycoughcough.
I’m 98% sure that was an accidental pregnancy, or at least accidental from his perspective.
What?? No. Talk about it. Let him decide if it’s a dealbreaker for him. Also if it is, you deserve to know so use those words.
I commented earlier but incompletely that age under 35 would be a factor I would be attentive to. I meant to add that in any case I would not leave someone preemptively about this. It sounds like you are worried about being abandoned, and that is a fear I think you should talk to someone about. With your partner you can have open communication, not ‘press him on this’. It sounds like how to communicate about this topic is a bit of a minefield and you could use some support and guidance from a therapist
Oh, this is so hard. I don’t have the perfect answer, but my instinct is to tell you to press on this but not just end it — he gets a say in things, too, and at a certain point you have to believe what he tells you. It’s worth a real conversation (or several).
Use your words? “hey you mentioned a theoretical kid a few times this weekend. Am I reading too much into that? I’m worried you’re wishing we could have children.”
Before you end it, press him on it.
‘You’ve said you’re fine not having children, but then there were those ‘if I had a son’ comments…’
If you do end up ending it, don’t pretend it’s for his own good, that’s just insulting.
When you say that you’re past the age of childbearing, does he really understand that? Could he be hoping that you’ll come around and decide that you want kids (or more kids)? I am regularly surprised by how little men understand about women’s fertility and how short the window of opportunity is absent trying a lot of scientific interventions. If you’re 40-something, he may think you can and or are interested in having kids.
He understands. We’ve had pretty explicit conversations about it bc I wanted to be sure he got it.
This, and it’s not limited to men. I know women who have breezily suggested that you can have kids easy peasy at 43-45. I am 43 and the number of women who ask me if I’m thinking about another kid is just mind-boggling. (I am not doubting that SOME women easily conceive at those ages; I doubt it’s the norm. I also believe that a lot of risks skyrocket during this time.)
A family member and his gf who is in her forties have been having conversations about when they’ll get married and start a family as if they’ll just decide to stop using BC to do that. They’re both very healthy and athletic, and I really think they don’t think they stats apply to people who don’t look or feel old.
My determined-to-be-childfree husband and I have had discussions about the quality of our local public schools, names for kids, and parenting approaches. None of this will ever have any practical effect on our lives, we’re just ruminating. Sometimes a comment or a topic of discussion is just what happens to pass through a guy’s mind!
So no, I would not do anything preemptively. If anything, I would explore why you reacted so strongly to an offhand comment.
I think a serious conversation about the topic is merited. Was it a throwaway comment based on conversational habit or is he secretly hoping adoption is an option? If so, are you open to that?
Maybe this is skewed by my location (Southern CA is the homeland of guys old enough to be grandfathers pushing strollers), but if you’ve had the conversation about kids being a biological impossibility I wouldn’t revisit it based on a few offhand comments.
FWIW, most of the straight guys in my circle who dated and dated for years without ever getting serious eventually just met someone who resembled most of their prior girlfriends, got engaged, got married, and had kids. It was like the “commitment” setting just came on at 40 or 45 instead of late 20s. If he wanted that, he’d make it happen.
Reposting from the weekend…. Seems quiet so might repost tomorrow too!
I’m not finding many opportunities in the NYC/North Jersey area for senior finance/accounting leader roles. Does anyone have any suggestions for good recruiters to connect with?
I’m looking for a good accounting leadership role, ideally with global operations. Im a CPA and have broker dealer and technology experience. My last role was head of credit risk, role before that divisional cfo for the technology group. Big 4 background (worked both audit and consulting). To put into context, I was 3 layers below c suit and my total package $450k. Looking for something in that ballpark. My last two roles were from my own network and fell in my lap. This time I need to do the work.
Man, I should have gone into money stuff. Two terminal degrees and two decades of experience doing something very challenging and impactful and market is less than 1/3 of that.
If you are in NYC, that’s a low income which will be difficult to live off if you have 3 children.
Are you being paid as much as the men? Basically I’ve been the only woman in the room a lot of the time and I was the first working mother at the firm I was divisional cfo at. Look for fields where there are lots of men. They tend to get paid much more than they are worth. I’m paid 20-25% less than the men in similar roles to what I do.
As I read often here…have the confidence of a mediocre white man.
I’ve heard good things from others at your level on Korn Ferry in NYC. No personal experience with them though.
Yes I’m with them but they don’t have many roles right now. Looking for suggestions of a good 2nd and 3rd firm of similar caliber.
Do hospitals have someone on staff who can help with a power of attorney and will?
An elderly relative is in the hospital in another state and has asked me to draw up a power of attorney and very simple will (“all my possessions to my roommate”). I’m located in and barred in another state, though I could download something online – but maybe both documents need a notary? Anyways, is there a department that does this, maybe using easy forms for that state, that I can tell them to ask for? Some flavor of social services? If it matters, the relative qualifies for Medicare and Medicaid.
Call the local bar association in the area where the relative is. They should be able to direct you to an available option.
Your relative’s insurance coverage shouldn’t matter in this instance. Call the hospital’s main line and ask if they have a care coordination or case management department, and then explain the situation to whomever you connect to in that department. Most hospitals have social workers reporting to care coordination who can assist with these types of things and probably find a notary within the hospital, as well. Do them a solid while you’re at it and make sure your relative has an advance directive stipulating what level of care they want if they become incapacitated while in the hospital.
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You want the social worker. She may give you a list of some local providers, but cannot recommend any formally. The hospital itself will not have options on site.
But I would instead look for someone locally who is an expert in elder law, as they often do what you need. In addition, some will travel to the site of the client to assist, as they are familiar with situations like yours. I would use referrals from folks on this site or the various legal resources as the other poster mentioned.
I would be super surprised if a hospital had anyone to help with poa or a will.
However, I believe Medicare reimburses a doctor to have one end of life planning discussion (which might includes appropriate documentation or a pointer in the right direction) with a patient in clinic before such need is imminent.
If you need a notary, in my area there are traveling notaries who will come to you for a fee. My credit union has a free notary service for members, but you have to call ahead to make sure the notary is in and go in.
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That seems way outside the scope of a hospital.
More on Fani Willis – skip if you are not interested.
Did anyone else have the impression that she consciously chose not to code-switch when she testified and that her decision not to code-switch was based on her calculation that her most important audience is her local electorate (she is up for re-election this year)?
Interesting take. I didn’t think of it in terms of code switching but I definitely felt she was playing for the cameras and making extraneous commentary in order to present her personality as well as to appear candid.
Anyone want to discuss the retire-Mint of what is in my opinion Intuit’s best product? CreditKarma does not have half of what made Mint useful for me. Sigh. If you’re a Mint lover who’s found a good alternative, please holler.
I don’t use Mint but I appreciate your pun :)
Well thank you! I won’t quit my day job. ;)
I am a Mint lover! I switched to Monarch. Normal cost is $100/year and they have a promo to get 50% off your first year if you’re coming from Mint (that’s what the website/promo code said when I signed up but I never ended up importing my data over from Mint and it still worked.)
I set aside some time one evening and set it up and played around with the specific features about recurring budgets/monthly carryovers/etc.
I do not use the net worth or savings goal features and I didn’t use them in Mint either, so my experience is based on budgeting and tracking spending by category.
Ooh looks great! Thank you for sharing!
Following – I am devastated, I used Mint on an almost daily basis and find Credit Karma to be severely lacking.
So far I like the look of PocketGuard (husband is firmly anti-paying for apps so a good free version was a must whatever we chose).