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These Tory Burch loafers caught my eye a few days ago, first because they were getting rave reviews — and then I noticed the name, and rubbed my eyes: Are those rubber shoes?
They are indeed, as Tory Burch's website makes clear. The rubber construction makes them waterproof, and the “heavy jersey lining” keeps them comfy. I like the logo on top, too, as well as the fact that they come in such a happy, bright yellow.
They're $248 at Nordstrom and Tory Burch.
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Anon
Following up from this morning, what do people say when taking just half a sick day, when you just need a little extra sleep and then you’re good to go?
Anonymous
Bad headache so going to rest. Depending on how I feel, I’ll try to be online later.
Positions you as a team player working through it and takes away screen time expectation until later in the day at earliest.
Anon
+1.
Nora
Exactly this.
Or something else that suggests you’ll try to WFH later.
anon
That you have a doctors appt and will be in at noon.
Anon
I’d message in the morning that I was feeling under the weather last night and I’m taking a few hours to rest up, but will be good to go for the afternoon.
Anonymous
hope to be good to go
Trish
Headache FTW. Or, “under the weather, and might feel better later.”
Anonymous
Both of these scream “I am hung over.”
anonshmanon
Absent any pattern, that’s a big assumption that will cause you to unfairly judge so many of your coworkers!
Anon
+1. I don’t assume hangover when someone calls in unless there’s a pattern of behavior, or a suspected issue. I think this is highly dependent on company culture and individual team dynamic.
Trish
lol. I don’t drink so that would not occur to me. It seems better than getting into bowel issues or cramps!
Anon
I often say this, and don’t drink, so I hope no one thinks I’m hungover!
Whenever someone gives a vague sick description, I assume it’s something “embarrassing” to discuss, like GI issues or menstrual symptoms.
Anon
Vague “am under the weather today, hope to be online later if I’m feeling up to it.”
Anon
Text “Dealing with a plumbing issue; will be in late this morning” and then go back to sleep for a few hours.
Anon
These remind me of LL Bean duck boots (particularly their mocassin version) with a hint of grandpa’s galoshes. Hard pass.
Senior Attorney
Seems like they would be of minimal utility because the water is going to get in the minute you step in a puddle.
Anon
Totally agree – it’s either boots (either rain or snow) or just power through with normal sneakers or whatever.
Cat
Also agree. I had a pair of Kate Spade rubber flats like 15 years ago that were absolutely adorable but also absolutely useless in more than a half-centimeter of water.
Anon
I have a pair of crocs that look like ballet flats, and they are great for two scenarios — rainy day but over 80F so too hot for boots but don’t want to ruin leather sandals, and going in the sprinklers with toddler. For anything else, I agree with you. My crocs are 10+ years old now because I use them 3-4 times a year at most now that my kids are no longer toddlers.
Anon
Even when I’m wearing full boots, I go to lengths to avoid stepping in puddles. I think these would be great for commuting on a rainy day. I don’t want to wear nice shoes and get them wet but I don’t want to be stuck in rain boots all day either. We hotel at my job, so I can’t leave shoes in the office to change into.
Anonymous
My grandmother had a pair of galoshes that were nearly identical…little kid me used to put them on all the time, lol.
Hard pass on buying them, but they made me smile at the memory.
Suze
I work at Company A, big conglomerate where I’m well established and appreciated. I recently received an offer I couldn’t refuse from another company, B (not competitive with A). Just after I accepted this offer from B, A did a reorg, and I was shifted to a new role in a new department – something very different but not necessarily offensive. The changes to my role are such that I could resign with severance (26 weeks of pay – an amount that would be very helpful to me but not f-u money by any means) under our policies. A few peers have been encouraging me to claim the severance, but I’m feeling icky about it since I don’t mind my new role at A and in any case am jumping to B soon. WWYD? TIA!!
Anon
Take the severance. Make sure anything you sign doesn’t prohibit you from taking the new job. But absolutely yes, take it.
Anon
+1 – I had a package where I couldn’t accept any other job within X days since the first X days I was technically on the payroll as an employee, not terminated. So make sure that’s not the case. But otherwise, don’t even think about leaving money on the table.
Anonymous
Yes, sometimes severance ends when new employment begins. Make sure that is not the case Or at least be aware that your claim will end up being smaller.
Anokha
Take the severance!!
JTM
Take the severance & don’t feel bad about it!
Anon
Take the severance, think of it as a windfall, invest it, and enjoy the returns later when you retire.
Anonymous
Companies aren’t people. They don’t care whether you like Old A or New A job. They just needed new A so reorganized accordingly. Take the severance unless it hinders you from taking B or impacts health insurance between gigs or anything like that.
Anon
Agreed with taking the severance. As a general counsel, even if I knew you were taking a new job, I’d still want you to take the severance because the release you will sign for it is more valuable to my company than keeping what amounts to a rounding error in their budget. A person who quits after being shuffled to a significantly new position is always a risk for a discrimination or retaliation lawsuit, and those are expensive to settle/defend, even if they are completely frivolous. I’d rather you take the money, so I don’t have to worry about a departed employee who was reorganized and didn’t release the company. Read carefully to make sure there is no prohibition on taking a job, and if there is not, sign and enjoy!
Anon
This exactly. They aren’t being kind to you; they are settling up their accounts.
Anon
Thanks all for the recommendations on veggie sides/salads that can hang out in the fridge for a few days.
The winner is the smitten kitchen green bean salad – OMG. Its supposed to be topped with fried almonds, but what I had on hand were some pine nuts so I toasted those in a small skillet. I think this is my new favorite salad!
I also made the copper pennies carrot dish. Weird but OK! Not a modern tasting thing (more like 50s sweet and sour flavor) but definitely healthy enough and a good thing to chow down on for a couple of servings of veggies.
Next up are the Winter Crunch Salad with kale, shaved brussells sprouts, and apples. Followed by the red cabbage and apple salad – sounds so interesting! I was inclined to make all four at once, but it makes more sense for me to wait until the first two are almost gone.
Anon
Thanks for reporting back! I’ve been eating a lot of unexciting plain crudites, so this is inspiration to me to prep some actual vegetable sides.
Anon
Haha, the copper pennies is my MIL’s favorite. I can’t do the flavor, but I’m weird about carrots.
anon
i’m a lawyer but work in non corporate spaces. Hoping to have an interview– is a lady jacket and slacks sufficient or should i wear a full suit? my full suit is at least 10 years old so if the answer is “yes” i would be buying a new one…
Anon
I think this may depend on the city/town that you’re interviewing in, as well as your level of seniority. I wore a collarless blazer and pants to a job interview in a smaller town where I knew the bar was more informal, but I did wear a full suit for my current job in a more populated are at a boutique firm. I did wear a more “fun” suit than a typical interview suit, however.
FWIW: I’m about 13 years into practice in the suburbs of a major metro.
anon
i’m very senior in new york. honestly my concern is more that i will look over dressed and square in a suit than anything else…
anon
sorry OP, also i’m beginning to approach 50 and i was wondering if a real suit might look stodgy or dated.
Anonymous
I think a lady jacket looks stodgy and dated on anyone over 30.
Anonymous
Disagree with anon on a 30s and under look. Lady jacket style is very much in right now. I’m seeing Veronica Beard version a lot. I think it’s dressing for what’s current. Most suit jackets are either long or lady style right now. Unless you’re really tall and thin, the lady style will be far more flattering than going long on most women regardless of age.
Anon
I certainly think you look out of touch wearing an “interview suit” at a certain point and in certain environments. What kind of non-corporate environment is it?
Like certain NGOs this would be a good choice, but probably not for a career clerkship.
anon
op post here: higher ed. RIght? i agree, i feel like if i saw someone my age in a navy pants suit i would think she had been holding on to it for 25 years….
Nesprin
Higher ed would run more casual (add a level of formality for SEUS, subtract 2 for California)
Anonymous
I’m not sure what non corporate spaces means but this internet stranger gives you permission to dress as you see appropriate. I’m with you in that I’m not feeling great about dressing or acting like a second year law student anymore just to land a job where the material of my jacket would have been a deal breaker.
Anon
I saw your rely below that this is for a higher ed job. I work in higher ed (legal) and would go with the lady jacket.
Anon
Reply, not rely.
Anon
I think wearing a matchy suit is a very young/junior look at this point. I’d wear trousers and a non matching blazer in a shape that flatters you – if that’s a lady jacket, then that’s the one.
Anonymous
This thread is depressing me because I’m
In my 50s and out of touch, I guess. I don’t know what I’d wear to an interview other than a suit.
Anon
Frivolous relationship question for the day. DH’s tech bro friend has been with his girlfriend for eight years, they live together, and they are getting engaged next year. They have public Venmo transactions, and split everything rigorously evenly. For example, the most recent was: “John charged sally $2.49 for Cliff protein bar.” For the life of me, I do not understand how this dynamic can possibly work. I have no judgment of separate finances, but is it even possible to keep everything this perfectly separate/even? What is the point of doing so when you theoretically want to spend your life with them? They both make high six figures and spend very lavishly on their lifestyle, so this level of bean counting is really just stumping me.
Anon
Sounds exhausting.
Cat
same. When DH and I were dating we generally tried to keep things even over time (like we’d trade off who paid for dinner or takeout or activities) but tracking every penny is weird. I guess it prevents any resentment over either person feeling like it’s not an even split, but in my view would create a feeling of – lack of natural reciprocity?
Anon
That is my feeling. Almost like taking arduous precautions to make sure you never accidentally even spend a cent on your partner. I like getting to buy my boyfriend small things and it would hurt my feelings if he was hard-wired to never want to do the same.
Anon
On public transactions on Venmo it doesn’t show the amount.
I personally don’t understand anything other than fully joint finances for married couples, but I also wouldn’t want any level of combined finances with a partner I’m not married to. Though, I think a running tally and once or twice a month reconciliation via Splitwise is easier. But maybe they prefer to keep their balances current?
Anonymous
I have a good friend who is like this with her husband. it is WILD to me as well. She does it more with her husband than I do with my best friend who lives in a different house. They just had a baby not too long ago and I’m curious how that is shifting the dynamic…I should go look at their Venmo.
also, why do these people have public venmos? are they trying to make some kind of weird point? Like that might be the case with my friend but it just looks very odd to the rest of us.
Anon
Yes!! OP here – this couple does it way more than I do with my close friends or even casual acquaintances (I’d buy a new pal a protein bar!).
I think you may be onto something with the proving a point thing. The boyfriend of this couple did once asked DH and I who paid for more dinners out. I found the question odd, so I joked that it was me by a mile. He asked for exact percentages and I said 70% (still joking). DH joked back: “What? Of course not – I always pay!” Venmo friend responded “I do this as a test to see how couples think their split is happening and who thinks they are paying more. Sally and I know it is 50-50, exactly.”
I didn’t know their dynamic at the time, but now I cringe thinking of this exchange. I feel like I stumbled into a trap to show that DH and I have an imbalanced or resentful relationship since we don’t scorekeeper like them.
Vicky Austin
That’s so oddly performative. I wouldn’t want to marry this person.
Cat
omg, that is the kind of conversation that DH and I would both have made a mental note to talk about after the fact. We would have been dying on the walk home thinking of ‘tests’ we should pass.
Anonymous
Sounds like a very controlling and judgemental man.
I have a relative that likes to ‘ask questions’ like that…except their questions are veiled judgements meant to demonstate how they are doing it right and everyone else is doing it wrong.
anecdata
Huh, actually that explanation kind of makes sense to me – it’s easy to be bad at estimating what you’re contributing, and I wonder if they both found they each thought they were contributing eg. 70%. It still sounds exhausting to do all the time, but I definitely know couples who’ve done a similar thing with chores/life admin for a month or so, to get themselves better data about who’s actually doing more and what all needs to get done. Not in a tit-for-tat, I changed a lightbulb so you need to clean the toaster way, but in a “we both think we’re doing more than our fair share, let’s collect some data to recalibrate” way.
anonshmanon
agree with the aptly named anecdata here. If the couple is aware of the very common dynamic where both sides think they are doing more than their fair share, I could see how they are trying this approach to get a better sense of the real split. If you know about yourself that looking at the data is going to be insightful for you, why not? To each their own.
Anonymous
Except that this doesn’t really give you that data. It ensures the split is always even. There are ways to capture the data but this is not it. Unless this is really not functioning the way OP describes, which I am not saying.
Anon
I don’t understand why ANYBODY ever makes their venmo tranactions public. I think it’s so weird.
Anon
It’s the default! I used the site for months before I knew it was public. I switched it off as soon as I found out, but I assume lots of folks don’t know.
anon
This is so weird but I know WAY too many people who didn’t realize Venmo defaults to public (or can’t figure out how to make it private) to assume it’s intentional. I would totally be fascinated and weirded out by watching it though!
Anonymous
I’m exhausted just thinking about the amount of energy that requires.
My H and I didn’t even have that level of bean counting when we were dating.
Anon
Oh, I have these people in my Venmo feed too… The bean counting isn’t what my vision of a relationship is but to each their own. What I don’t get is why making all of this public? It feels very creepy for me to have a window into how a couple manage their finance, spends on various things and so-on. It’s one thing to see a friend paying another for a concert ticket but I don’t want to be a spectator to your day-today finances.
SMC - San Diego
A remarkably large number of people do not realize their Venmo transactions are set to public (or friends as the case might be). I recently had to tell my (adult) daughter that hers were set to public. She had no idea.
As a PSA: The Washington Post just had an excellent series on how to update your privacy settings for a wide variety of sites. I highly recommend it (and was actually surprised at how user friendly FB’s were).
Anon
I have a cousin who does this – she’s an accountant so I figured it was something to do with that (or maybe because he’s just a dud of a dude). They’re newly married and pregnant so I’m hoping it’ll stop for her sake soon.
Anon
I was divorced with a child when I met and married my now husband. The divorce was horrible for me financially, and I still have FEELINGS about it (despite therapy). When we got married, I insisted on a prenup and that we keep separate finances. Part of it is to protect my kid, and part to protect me. What we do is that at the end of the month, we each add up how much we spent on “joint” expenses, adjust using a formula based on our relative incomes, and then settle up. Neither of us include small expenses like a coffee or something like that — it’s just for rent, bills, groceries, eating out, pet expenses. We will talk about our finances and plan our future together, and we contribute to a joint savings account, but this works for us. I can never again have my paycheck deposit into an account with someone else’s name on them. A friend has separate expenses with her husband because her mother was massively screwed financially in her divorce — the friend still helps support the mom. They have it divided by categories, one of them takes care of mortgage and house bills, and the other covers childcare and groceries, or something like that.
My MIL has different financial trauma — her father was cheap and was constantly taking advantage of everyone financially in little ways — like saying he’ll get the next one or will pay someone back and then never doing it. Apparently it was really embarrassing for her. She’s in her 80s and still INSISTS that if we pick up some groceries for her or something, she will pay us back immediately, even if it’s only $10-20. She’s on my husband’s phone plan and mails him a check for her share of it every month. She has never let us buy her dinner or lunch unless it’s a birthday or something.
Point is, different people have different life experience that influence how they handle finances, so please don’t judge just because you don’t understand. And public venmo doesn’t show amounts, and sometimes people put fake or funny notes in the memos. I wouldn’t take everything there literally.
Anon
This exactly.
Anon
I am the second wife, DH had two kids and a volatile, unpredictable and retributive XW when we met. We kept totally separate finances so that: (1) XW could not access my income or assets, and (2) my income/assets did not need to be reported on FAFSA.
Anonymous
+1. If you keep things separate, it’s easier to extract yourself if things go south.
Anon
This sounds a little extreme, but my husband and I did pretty scrupulously track expenses and make everything equal before we were engaged. We were on a much tighter budget though (he was in grad school on a very small stipend, I had a much bigger salary but big student loan debt). Now married almost 20 years and much better off financially, we have fully combined finances with no bean-counting and finances are not an issue at all in our relationship.
ALT
This would drive me up a wall and I wouldn’t be able to handle a relationship where we were so nickel and dimey over everything. I prefer the “keep a rough tally and do approximately 50/50 split but that might be more like 60/40 or whatever makes sense”.
To each their own, right?!
Anonymous
None of these split account households have really hit retirement age in mass numbers yet. I’m very curious how this will work. I saved up my money so I’m gonna retire and screw you?
Anon
You really don’t know any couples who retired at different times? Why not continue sharing expenses from their own respective accounts just like they did before? This doesn’t seem hard to understand.
And I posted above, but if my ex-husband and I had split up close to retirement, I might have been screwed out of ever getting to retire at all. Not a chance I’m willing to take, and obviously I had no idea that we would get divorced 15 years later when I married him and combined all of our accounts with no prenup.
Anon
Pretty much the only people I know who retired years apart are couples with a large age gap. I have a colleague who is 55 and her husband is 17 years older than she is. He’s been retired for a while, but she’ll keep working until she’s 65 and eligible for Medicare.
I know a LOT of teachers, so while they tend to retire the same year as their spouse, they only retire at the end of the school year. For example, the best time of year for my dad to retire was February but my mom worked until the end of the year in June. My dad is three years older than my mom, so he worked until he was 68 and she was 65 and then they retired in the same year.
Anon
I think this gets tricky if and when one spouse significantly out earns the other spouse. Now that no one is drawing a salary, are things still broken down 75% / 25% (for example)? Their retirement accounts will likely have a pretty large discrepancy in them.
Anon
I don’t know why you and Anonymous @ 4:59 are assuming couples are never going to change their system.
Anonymous
I know lots of people who retired at different times, but not because they had a different financial picture than their partner!
Anon
This is a weird reaction to couples that have separate finances.
Anon
My husband and I use splitwise to keep track of expenses. We’re not that nickel and dime-y though, and I certainly wouldn’t make it public if we were using venmo.
Miz Swizz
When my husband and I were dating and living together, we opened a joint account and deposited the same amount monthly to cover rent, utilities, groceries, and the occasional meal out. We kept separate accounts as well to pay for personal expenses. I would find it utterly exhausting to try to keep track of and have to submit Venmo requests for each thing.
finances
Did this change when you were married? This is my fiance and my current approach.
Anonymous
I want to think the woman is on the same salary as the guy in this scenario, but unfortunately he sounds like chad bro. What’s the female equivalent?
Anonymous
The nickel and dining would be a deal breaker for me. But worse is what appears to be the immediacy of it. Splitting bills twice a month is one thing. Never being out of perfect balance for an hour feels very controlling and like someone said, trying to prove a point. I hope this is not tied up in his attempt to prove he lives his equality of the sexes philosophy.
Anon
Life doesn’t have to be that hard.
Anon
High six figures like $800,000, or like $180k?
Anon
As long as it’s the same from both sides.
In my extended family/social circle there is (was) a couple where the guy was always “joking” that his girlfriend was a so-called gold digger. I do know they made approximately the same amount of money. He was like this with her. Split everything to the penny. She finally got sick of his BS and broke up with him, which just seems to have proven to him that she was a gold digger. (?) It’s the manosphere.
Anon
This is how I feel about it, too. If both parties are happy to keep this accounting, then more power to them. It’s not how I want to handle finances in my relationship (where we do keep separate finances), but that doesn’t make it a wrong way to handle things.
My own relationship history makes me worry about control issues when settling up happens frequently and immediately, but I realize that it’s not the case for everyone.
London bound
I think this has been asked and answered but my comment search fails me. Any recommendations for where to stay in London. Not specific accommodations but locations in general. Prices for Airbnbs in central London are very high. With 2 kids under 10 for April how far out can we reasonably go without having to squash into the tube every time and still be close to good food and some interesting sites.
Anonymous
we should start using hashtags like #london to help people find stuff.
London bound
lol yes hastags for searching comments would be great. I can’t believe how much time I spent trying to craft searches to find London in the comments. Turns out quite a few posts have London in the title ie clothes from The Fold London which I love.
Anon
Here are a few areas that are fun for kids and in Zone 1:
– near Tower Bridge/Tower of London
– Pimlico (very London-y) architecture
– Marylebone
– near Notting Hill Gate
I would not recommend staying in the following areas: Bloomsbury (very modern/city-ish), Shoreditch (recently popular but quite gritty), anywhere outside Zone 1.
Time Out has a London with Kids version (look online).
Anonymous
I lived there a few years and when I went back with my nephews of that age we stayed in Earls Court area in a private room in the YMCA. There were more families like us and the facilities were quite family orientated. I choose the area because was near the museums (Natural history and Sciences) and parks and the neighborhood is nice and safe and well conected with the center. Kensington would have been better but it was out of my budget.
In other trips with older people I would choose a different area.
anon
I absolutely love St. Ermin’s hotel in Westminster for kids. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Anonymous
Has anyone ever washed pillows in the machine? Or done that laundry-stripping-Borax thing? Gearing up for spring cleaning (and spring allergies)…
Anon
I’ve washed pillows in washing machine. Did it when I picked up some on local Buy Nothing group ahead of hosting a bunch of people for thanksgiving. Worked fine. Put them in washer but forget whether also used dryer. I followed the instructions on the tag.
I typically use cotton allergy cases on my pillows (and DH’s and my kids’), for both general cleanliness as well as DH’s allergies.
Anonymous
Have washed and dried pillows in the machines many times. I use OxyClean but I am sure there are people who will be horrified by that. Use dryer balls or tennis balls for drying. It will likely take a few cycles.
anecdata
I don’t have super fancy pillows I’m worried about ruining I guess, but yeah I put them in the washer. I do 2-3 at once and kind of tuck them around the center pole and they stay pretty well balanced. And I put them in the dryer – works fine, just slow
Anon
Down pillows in the washing machine, two at a time so the machine is balanced (top loader). Takes half a day to dry, but they come out so fluffy and smell great.
Anon
It seems to me that generic chocolate (the kind you buy at CVS or target in bags) has gotten significantly worse. I like to keep a small candy dish in my office around valentine’s — is there any particular brand of chocolate that you’ve found to be better?
Anon
Based on what I sampled from the generic Halloween chocolate left in the break room, I agree. Dove is still good, though.
Sunshine
The Dove squares are good. And I like that there is a message on the inside foil
anon
I would get the Ghiradelli squares. That’s kinda lux though, in my mind, and people will start visiting you just to drain your chocolate….
Cat
Dove is way better than Hershey’s.
Anon
Lindt.
AIMS
+1.
Anonymous
I do not buy generic (store brand) chocolate. Of the discount store brands, I agree that Dove, Ghirardelli, and Lindt are the best.
Anonymous
People definitely came by my office for Dove when I kept a dish on my desk.
Anonymous
Given that I ate too many Hershey’s kisses with almonds that my MIL had out last week, I would say those are still ok lol.
Anon
Dove strikes the balance between being inexpensive enough for sharing without tasting like total garbage.
Reese’s mini cups are the best if there are no PB allergies, but I would have difficulty leaving any of those out long enough to share.
Anon
Lindt 70% cacao truffles.
anon
agree with all. Dove is best CVS brand.
anon
I swear half my Facebook feed is showing random, spammy accounts that are loosely based on real, actual accounts that I follow (e.g., I follow a local bakery, and suddenly I’m getting random cupcake pictures from a bakery whose location I can’t ascertain, but I know it sure isn’t nearby.) What the heck, algorithm? I’ve hidden as many of these as I can but they repopulate like wildfire. I guess if I needed one more reason to stop using Facebook, this might be it. No wonder the bots are winning. But for real, is there any way to stop this?
Anon
This might be the result of how you have your advertising preferences set. One of the disadvantages of not letting it use your activity to inform the ads you see is that you get some very strange ads that are not in any way relevant to you.
Anon
Different Anon, but my activity pretty clearly informs the ads, and I still encounter this all the time.
Anon
I would love to find a browser plugin or similar to block Facebook content from accounts I don’t follow.
I wonder if the bakeries that aren’t nearby and similar are getting somewhat scammed (paying extra for business accounts so that Facebook will show their content to more viewers, but Facebook shows it to viewers hundreds of miles away and then tells them that lots of people saw it?).
What’s making things more unendurable for me is that AI generated content is filling up my feed. The uncanny gap with fake boomer humor comics or fake kitten portraits just really gets to me!
Anon
I’m getting a lot of random stuff too. Not necessarily ads like your bakery, but for instance, a group interested in old Hollywood, another group for people interested in trains. (Clearly the algorithm thinks I’m over 80, and probably a man.)
I don’t see how that’s ad revenue, but more like “you may be interested in” stuff I guess?
Cat
FB has started pushing this stuff a lot over the last few weeks. Groups, pages to follow, etc. It’s clearly related to my activity but it’s still useless clutter.