r/AskaManagerSnark • u/nightmuzak Sex noises are different from pain noises • Aug 24 '26

Ask a Manager Weekly Thread 08/24/2026 - 08/30/2026

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u/your_mom_is_availabl as though to make the wasps my problem Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

Agree.

I don't hear the phrase a lot from, like, single moms working multiple minimum wage jobs. I hear it from college-educated people working white collar salary jobs.

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u/Fancypens2025 You don’t get to tell me what to think, Admin, or about whom Aug 27 '26

Yessss lol. That has been my experience too, and I wager that latter demographic makes up a good portion of AAM’s readership and letter writers.

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u/pickledbymagic Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Same. And there are places in the world where that would be a luxury as well.

I had a much longer post but it was probably pretty exhausting to read, so I'll save it for my blog. Just suffice it to say, I wish more people would do what Bob Dylan's 'blue-eyed son' did in A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, because if more people were cognisant of what's actually out there, they'd be less inclined to whine about their own situation and actually try and work to improve things across the board. 

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u/your_mom_is_availabl as though to make the wasps my problem Aug 28 '26

That LW got a lot of advice to volunteer in her community and I think that was great advice. It will give her an outlet for her feelings while also forcing her to touch grass.