17 Things You Might Not Recognize As Personal Privilege
If there’s a bit about the concept of privilege that can be hard to grasp, it’s that it doesn’t mean your life has been easy – just that your life hasn’t been made harder by the circumstances you were born into. If you’re still a bit unclear on what that might mean, here are 17...
16 Pictures That Prove Iceland Is A World Apart
Iceland has become a popular tourist destination recently, and for good reason – the colors, the landscapes, the rugged countryside, and so much more means you’ll never run out of things to see. If you haven’t had your chance yet, these 16 pictures might convince you to go, and if you’ve been, they might just...
14 Images Of Iceland That Almost Don’t Seem Real
If you’re like me, there’s nowhere in the world you don’t want to see – or at least, that you wouldn’t like to see if money and war and crime wasn’t an issue. Lately it seems as if Iceland has become a popular destination for travelers from the States, and when you see pictures of the...
14 People Answer, “Why Doesn’t Your Employer Have to Give You Two Week’s Notice of a Firing?”
There’s no law of the land that requires employees to give two week’s notice before leaving a job, but social convention means that most people do, if possible. It gives employers a head’s up that they’ll need to fill a position, and by being “polite” about leaving, the employee feels as if they left on...
11 Entitled Employers Who Are Going To Make You Glad You Already Have A Job
There’s no doubt that being unemployed is stressful – but getting out there and finding a new job comes with its own stresses, too. We’d all like to be able to stay at the jobs we have, and have those jobs be with employers who treat us right and value us, but we also all...
Hiring Managers Talk About How People Lie During Job Interviews
True story: I have a friend who was interviewing for a job. The people asked him, “what is your proudest accomplishment?” He panicked and couldn’t think of anything…so he said he’d recently lost 300 pounds… Nice move! I guess lying during job interviews isn’t really all that uncommon, based on these responses. Folks on AskReddit...
17 U.S. Cities People Say You’d Better Avoid
If you’ve someone who is native to the States, especially if you have spent any time traveling the winding roads that aren’t quite on the interstate, you know that you can never be quite sure where you’re going to stop for gas – or what might be waiting for you when you do. If traveling...
16 People Describe The Experiences That Made Them Pro-Universal Healthcare
If you’re an American, you know that whether or not to choose a healthcare model that considers health a basic human right is more than a little controversial. While our friends in Europe, the UK, and all over the world enjoy affordable healthcare and can get treatment for things like cancer without having to file...