Ask a Manager: How to tell your boss a sex worker stole your work laptop

[ermingarden]

I have a question on behalf of a friend (yes, I promise it is actually a friend and not me). He was staying overnight on a business trip and decided to hire a sex worker. This is perfectly legal in our part of the world and he used his own personal funds. While he was in the bathroom, the sex worker robbed him, including his work laptop. How should he go about informing work what happened?
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How To Do It: Every Time a Girlfriend Learns My Secret From My College Years … Things Get Awkward

[minoanmiss]

I’m terrified she’ll leave me if she finds out. ( Read more... )

Dear Prudence: I cannot even.

[minoanmiss]

(Not the original title. Contents include: busy wife and jealous husband. also small children. Yes, you've seen this before.)

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Bintel Brief: intermarriage is totally cool, but not for my kid

[jadelennox]

Another classic Bintel Brief. The ones I like the most fell into two camps: everyone, including the columnist, is a dyed-in-the-wool revolutionary leftist; or a letter about family drama that someone could have written today. This one, from 1928, is the latter.

Dear Editor,

I consider myself a progressive woman who thinks there should be no difference between Jews and Christians. Years ago when I was a girl and sometimes heard that parents would not allow their daughter to marry a Christian, I maintained that they should not interfere. I believed that a fine Christian was as good as a fine Jew.

Now, however, when my daughter has fallen in love with a Gentile, I have become one of the mothers who interferes so that the match should not succeed. I am not one of those fanatic parents who warn their children that they will disown them because of such a match, but I’m trying with goodness to influence my daughter to break up with the boy.

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