Coffee Break: Rosie Backpack
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Tumi's bags have a lot of thoughtful details. In fact, they've been a reader favorite practically since the inception of the blog, and it makes good sense — there are so many thoughtful details in the bags.
I love that this one has a trolley sleeve, water bottle pockets, and a pocket just for your phone — it looks like the perfect backpack to carry on a plane or train. The bag can fit most 16″ laptops, and has its own laptop compartment — there's also a water-resistant water bottle pocket.
It is currently priced at $332, but will go back to $475 after the NAS ends.
Curious about other other favorite work backpacks in 2025? Tumi, Lo & Sons, Knomo, Everlane, and Cole Haan are all in the mix!
Sales of note for 7/15/25:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale is open for everyone — here's our roundup!
- Ann Taylor – Semiannual sale, extra 50% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% off everything + extra 50% off clearance
- Boden – 10% off new womenswear with code
- Eloquii – Limited time, 100s of styles starting at $9
- J.Crew – End of season cashmere sale, take 40% off select cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – All-Star Sale, 40-70% off entire site and storewide and extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Rothy's – Up to 50% off seasonal faves, plus new penny loafers and slingbacks
- Spanx – End of season sale
- Talbots – All markdowns, buy 2 get 1 free, on TOP of an extra 40% off (last day is 7/15)
What brands make those stretchy beaded bracelets that everyone’s wearing stacks of? I have found e newton and Kylar Mack. Are there any others? Specifically looking for swim- and shower-safe, 6 or 6.25 inches, bonus for rose gold.
mine are gorjana. i wouldn’t swim or shower in them though.
Has anyone ever done PT with Sword / Thrive? My insurance sent me something about how it’s free so I’m curious.
My employer offer Hinge app instead which is also PT but different model. I actually really like it. It’s worth a shot! Muscle skeletal treatments are often a big drain on insurance claims for employers so they’re all trying these apps which are more cost effective. I actually like not having to go to an appt in person a few times a week.
Hinge? You sure you’re on the right app?
Blue Shield uses Hinge.
Hahaha! hinge health:)
What is it? Is it remote PT like having a doctor’s appointment virtually? Or is it just an Exercise App with no human involved?
I can’t imagine anything that my family has had therapy for that would be appropriate without a therapist there in person – assessing/touching/teaching good technique. What I can imagine is going for a few sessions in person, and then doing most of your rehab at home using an App – which is what my last PT was like. However, studies show that the vast majority of folks do not do their home programs so ?
Looking for advice on whether it makes sense to be honest with departing supervisors, when they request feedback?
My boss recruited me to Company B. He’s now leaving for a new opportunity. I haven’t enjoyed Company B. Last year, some of us raised concerns to management, including that we didn’t feel investment in our overall career development (I’ve been here for years and haven’t had a performance review). One of my favorite coworkers became fed up and left for a new job. Before she left, she asked to talk to Boss about some of the concerns that led her to leave. Boss scheduled a meeting, but told her that he was not in a place to hear her out.
Boss just asked to meet with me in advance of his departure. He mentioned that he’s leaving ahead of our performance review process (which I’ve never had) and asked if we could have a substitute conversation where I could request feedback on my performance and share any for him as well.
This doesn’t have the ring of a serious offer — he asked if we could meet on short notice, for thirty minutes, and told me not to prepare beforehand. I think he’s generally averse to feedback, and he can’t do anything to change the office anyway, since he’s leaving. I also like leaving things on good terms with people, since my industry is pretty small and we might well encounter each other again. So my instinct is to pick 2-3 neutral things to discuss and leave it there. But part of me is just also feeling very offended by all of this and wants to be frank about my experience. Talk me out of it?
Keep it neutral since being honest can only have negative outcomes. There is nothing to be gained, just use what you have learned about your boss to inform future decisions.
so i understand you and boss currently work a company B and he is leaving but you are not? yeah. i would not bother, cancel it say you can’t don’t waste your time and what’s he going to do? if you have a belief that this person is fixable and comes from a genuine place of personal growth and self reflection think of a few specific not judgmental suggestions and move on.
Your instinct is correct, stay neutral. This person can’t do anything about the org, and if they were truly interested in hearing feedback, they would’ve asked before their last two weeks at the company.
Fair enough that you’re offended and annoyed, but it’s one 30-minute meeting where you just need to keep a reasonably bland face and tone.
If your boss pushes you for something to improve on in his next role, I think it’s fair to say that he could implement more formal opportunities for feedback with his next team if the new company doesn’t already have a performance review process. You don’t have to say anything negative about the lack of performance reviews at your current company or how he didn’t ask for/give feedback in your current role, just note that he could take that step in his next team.
Don’t have the meeting. Wish him well, let him know you’ll look forward to seeing him on the circuit, and leave it.
Protect your time and your sanity; I really don’t think there’s anything good that can come from this anyway. Even if you keep it neutral, you’ll be mad at yourself for not speaking your mind and he’ll be able to plead ignorance that there were any problems.
What on earth do you think the point of complaining now to someone who cannot fix anything would be? Like can you possibly be dumb enough to think ending the relationship on a sour note with him would help
You in any way?
What the hell is wrong with you? If you’re having a bad day, take a walk or a nap.
I am having a glorious day. Some questions are just so dumb
And some people are just such assholes.
If glorious equals being an anonymous jerk, you are in fact having a glorious day. What is going on in your life that you need to act this way? I don’t care what your answer is, but you might be better off if you silently think on it to yourself and come up with some answers.
Or go eat a muffin. A completely uncalled for response.
It could have been said nicer, but it’s not wrong.
It depends. I gave this offer for departing employees (like, they were leaving and I invited feedback of me) and I really appreciated some of the responses. One woman who ended up reporting to me due to a stupid accident of M&A, but could just have easily been my boss, told me my instincts are good but I don’t fight hard enough for my ideas against my toxic boss. I thought long and hard about that and did make changes in how I advocated for myself and my team, and ultimately left that company for one that felt like a better culture. Not a straight line from the feedback, but it was valuable to me.
It sounds like your situation is not that. Telling your departing boss about frustrations specific to your current work situation helps no one. But if you have something about HIM and his leadership style that might be helpful to his future directs for him to hear and take with him, think about it.
That’s really weird. My first thought is that he’s going to try to recruit you again, but no way would I be honest. It sounds fishy. I’d be passive and hear him out. There is no win from actually giving feedback—remember he is your reference for the future too.
Just reading this I was thinking about how much of this meeting I could get through only asking questions. Let him vent but not do much more but nod in response?
This approach is helpful in so many situations.
I really like this. :-)
Any recommendations for maternity brands that run long / have tall sizes? The trend towards ankle cropped pants isn’t helping, but I’m looking for a pair of workhorse black dress pants to get me through the next few months. So far the pairs I’ve tried could pass off as capris. I’m 5’10.
I’m 5’8 with long legs so typically need a long inseam, and I was pregnant in 2022 so these may have changed, but you could check out:
Seraphine
Gap
Old Navy
However my favorite pants while pregnant were Levis maternity jeans, and I never wore Levis otherwise. They were a bit short and I don’t think had a long option but may be worth checking out.
+1 from someone who’s 5’11” with long legs. Caveat that I didn’t buy dress pants because my office is casual and I worked from home a lot, but Seraphine was my go-to for dresses and Old Navy was where I got my maternity jeans.
Just had an interview with two interviewers and I believe they interviewed me for the wrong job. I applied for X level job and they twice mentioned Y level (lower than X). They also asked very easy questions that didn’t really show off what I’m capable of. I was flustered and didn’t ask for outright clarity during the interview (I know, I’m kicking myself). After the interview ended (it was over video), I read the job description again and there was no mention of Y level. I emailed the recruiter and explained what happened. She quickly replied, “the interview was for X level.” Not satisfied, I texted a friend who works for the company. He said the interviewers definitely messed up and that those are two very different levels. What to do now? I’ve already bothered the recruiter. This is a major Fortune 100 company. I can’t believe this happened, honestly. I’m not 100% sold on the team to begin with, so do I just take this as a sign that this is not the right one?
I think you just have to let this go honestly. I had something similar happen. I applied for Y job. Recruiter called me to talk about X job– job description was different than what I had seen, was much more junior, and had a smaller salary range. I got asked to interview and almost said no because I thought at that point it was for X job. Interview was for Y job, but I wasn’t prepared for it at that point. Super awkward. Turned out the recruiter was stuck looking at the job description for the last role they had hired for.
Basically recruiters are awful.
Are you in contact with your interviewers to send a thank you email or questions? Perhaps also clarify there. If not, nothing you can do but wait to hear from them and clarify then.
what’s the biggest scandal you’ve seen in real life?
mine isn’t very interesting – a friend got divorced when her kid was about 11 months old and her husband kept saying it was just one of those things. within 6 months he was married to his very pregnant coworker.
Oh gosh, this reminds me of someone I know. She and her husband met at work, and while she was on maternity leave another coworker gave her the heads-up that something fishy was going on…yep, her husband was having an affair and they separated. Just horrible! (Also maybe we know the same person…)
A guy on our street had an affair while his wife was pregnant with their child. They divorced; she moved out and he somehow got to keep the house and their kids. He moved the other woman into the house. Within a few months he’d taken up with the divorced woman who lived across the street, and the original affair partner disappeared.
Idk about me but my coworker was at the Boston Coldplay concert last night seated right in front of that couple. Ba-na-nas.
I’m obsessed with that story! Why didn’t they just act normal. It only went viral because they got so weird about it!
What a way to get caught. I kind of love it.
It’s so nice to see a tech bro get his comeuppance for once.
Ha, totally!
Karma!
Guy who was in charge (think store manager, but not retail) cheats with his subordinate, impregnates her, and then promotes her to second in charge under him.
On a related note: Married guy has an affair with his admin, who doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree. They allegedly break up. A few years later she’s promoted into a position that requires a JD or PhD.
Yeah these are jobs that sio require degrees and the AP only has a highschool diploma, she skipped like 4 levels in being promoted.
I am a leading expert in an extremely specialized topic. Several years ago, a researcher at another institution called me up to ask for advice on her project in the topic area. I gave her a lot of background information and suggestions. When her project report was published, most of the text was plagiarized verbatim from one of my reports. The head of my department contacted the head of her org, who refused to retract the document, issue a true private apology or any kind of public statement, or report the plagiarism to the project’s funder. A while later the report quietly disappeared from the org’s website. I don’t know whether the plagiarist was fired, but a few months later she had a much better job at a better org–which happened to be my dream org, where I have never been able to get an interview despite having partnered with one of their other researchers on a successful project. I can’t tell anyone this story in real life because it would just make me look bad. The only people who know are those who were directly involved, plus a couple of people with whom I later worked with on a lit review that included both the plagiarized report and my report from which it was plagiarized.
this sucks!
Wow! You can’t report to an Inspector General? That’s fraud from a funding perspective in addition to plagiarism.
The bride slept with the best man a few weeks before the wedding! A thing I thought only happened in the movies. The couple still got married and are still together many years later. The best man was out of the friend group for a few years but last I heard they are all friends again.
Omg!!!
Groom got caught sleeping with bride’s sister days before the wedding. Bride’s family pressured her to go forward for the family to save face. Unsurprisingly the divorce was less than two years later. Bride is not my favorite person for Reasons but I’ve always given her a lot of extra grace because of what she went through, and will continue to do so until one of us is no longer on this earth.
Wow, what an awful family
Not really that juicy but I’ve been surprised by how much extramarital activity (I think mostly cheating but maybe some consensual swinging) there is among my elementary age kids’ friends parents social circles. It seems to me that it’s Cheating 101 to do it out of town on a business trip or something like that, and not with your daughter’s best friend’s mom, but what do I know.
I know someone who cheated with his child’s best friend’s mom and got her pregnant. Meanwhile he was telling people that he was so sad his marriage didn’t work out…and then everyone learned the truth. He left his wife, married the affair partner, and within a few years the two BFFs-turned-stepsisters hated each other.
My old (female) boss was having an affair with another (married) man in our office and they were hooking up on work time. His wife found out and took him to the cleaners in the divorce. It was such a toxic company that there were other stories like this but that one is the big one.
A and B, both women, were best friends. They divorced their husbands and moved in with one another, taking their kids with them. They engaged in gleeful PDA at every neighborhood gathering.
I know a woman who married her (male) high school sweetheart, had an affair with a female coworker, divorced her husband, came out as a lesbian, married the female coworker and then cheated on the coworker… with a guy, who she eventually married and had kids with. I know bisexuality is a thing but the flip-flopping between genders was kind of hilarious. And this all happened before she turned 30.
Compulsory cis-het normativity is so crushing. I dream about running away with a woman even though I’m technically pan.
The guy who had been announced as my company’s next CEO cheated with a subordinate, who I worked with. It made national news. He did not end up being the next CEO after all.
ooh I posted about it here shortly after it happened last year because I was dying to talk about it.
One of my neighbors/well known community person (Neighbor Man) kicked his wife and 18 year old stepson out of his house, then within two weeks had a new much younger “roommate” plus her two kids…Roommate had just left her husband. Kept INSISTING it was just a roommate. Like made a big long Facebook post saying she was JUST a roommate, but if anything happened down the line he wouldn’t be opposed to it… eyerolls all around because they had been seen making out in public at one of the local bars. Okay whatever.
However 6 weeks after he kicked out wife, 4 weeks after roommate has moved in, the annual 3 day town festival happens. Neighbor Man is chair of the festival and has been for a few years so is all over the festival, and in past years his wife had helped in very specific rolls quite a bit. At the festival, Roommate is attached to Neighbor at the hip, or doing the exact same specific rolls that Wife had done previously. It was sooooo in everyone’s face and her doing the exact same roles as wife previously had done…so flipping awkward and weird.
Now another year has went by and Neighbor Man and Roommate are still living together. Idk if they’re officially publicly together or what, but they still do everything together. The Wife moved back to her home state with her son, and seems to be living a quite happier life now.
The drama of it all was so weird though to witness firsthand.
An ex-boyfriend was providing cultural commentary at the Olympics and said something insensitive and inaccurate. He was fired by the network, and while I’m sure he’s fine, he hasn’t sold many books since then, lol.
My very well liked and respected manager was walked out in handcuffs for embezzlement. Pretty public facing role and quite awkward when it hit the papers and we had to refrain from comment.
Your story reminded me that one of the managers at a former law firm of mine went to prison for embezzlement! She’d been a really close friend with another co-worker, they went on trips together, which in retrospect, manager probably shouldn’t have been able to afford. Her ex-husband had his own scandal, since he had been charged with licking a patient’s toes.
Toes?! What? OMG
I know someone who, during a bitter divorce and custody fight, dna tested their 4 year old (behind their ex’s back), found out they weren’t the father, put an announcement on facebook and renounced the kid.
How horrible for the kid. 😔
Poor kid
The mom of a family I was once close with pretended to go to law school, then faked a graduation (including hiring actors). Wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t know it happened!
I work at a university and hiring actors to fake a graduation blows my mind. To do that well would cost a lot of money!
A girl friend kept asking me to watch her kid last minute on weekends. Our kids were friends. It was a play date. I didn’t mind. The husband / dad would pick up the kid. They had older kids. Logistics suck. I get it.
Turned out she was running off with her boyfriend, which I found out when she did run off with him. The dad got full custody and took great care of the kids.
She’s been a mess the next ten years, too. I felt very used.
oh, here’s one – Friend of a Friend worked for an on-air personality and had a flirty banter relationship thing going on. Then my friend kept telling me about how the personality was helping her with her dog, how they went to the estate over the weekend, etc, etc. Well turns out Personality and FoF were having an affair. Personality was married at the time. FoF was also in a relationship…
… and the guy ended up blackmailing Personality. Instead of paying, Personality went to police and admitted the affair on-air.
Yes, if you think you know this one, you probably do.
Letterman?!
Pre-AI: A former associate would turn in really well written briefs but could not make requested revisions to them. She was using a ghostwriter.
Oof- I have 3.
1. My grandfather cheated on my grandmother for 2 years with my father’s secretary.
2. During grad school, a couple had an affair blowing up both their marriages. The guy got back together with his wife. Wife (quickly) got pregnant with their second child. He broke up with her while she was pregnant to go back to the affair partner. Affair partner dumped him prior to graduation rather than limit her career options.
3. My female cousin is a pediatrician who had an affair with her patient’s mother and both women left their husbands.
Oh in my own family my great grandfather ran away from his home country and first wife. He and his mistress, my great grandma, got married in the new country. I won’t do any of those DNA tests for this reason. I dont need to know what happened to my great grandfathers first wife and kids.
I’m looking for a watch for my 12 year old. Not a smart watch, just a “tells me the time so I don’t have to check my phone” watch. I wear a Fitbit for this purpose.
Phones are supposed to be left in lockers at school and she wants to make sure she’s on time to class, etc.
Seen anything cure? She’s trendy/sporty.
Shark watches are trending wth that age group.
Swatch?
Or Timex for some similar-looking kids’ models at a lower price point.
Timex kids watches are cute and colorful