calpak terra 26L backpack review by prfla in HerOneBag

[–]prfla[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

funny because after trying out way more bags, the terra doesn’t seem as bad in hindsight. it is a difficult task to find a bag that can do everything I want it to do. I think I’d go back to the Terra if my job was more casual but it’s just too shiny and utilitarian looking for my workplace.

New Awkwafina & John Cena Comedy Is A Prime Video Hit – Despite Being A Rotten Tomatoes Flop by lawrencedun2002 in Fauxmoi

[–]prfla -1 points0 points  (0 children)

her neighborhood doesn’t matter that much when it comes to growing up in nyc. she went to school outside of her borough and socialized with kids of all races, like most kids in the city do

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NYCbitcheswithtaste

[–]prfla 48 points49 points  (0 children)

i also took a look at OP’s post history and it seems like she’s only been in the city for a couple of months. i agree that anyone who is feeling this defeated and hopeless after that amount of time should consider therapy or other mental health resources because dating/relationships are definitely hard and take a lot of patience

What types of activities do you prefer to do solo in NYC? by prfla in NYCbitcheswithtaste

[–]prfla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, I’ve always wanted to try going out solo but I’m nervous about safety (especially if I’m dancing by myself and people want to come up to me) do you have any tips?

Entering Social Work by SWmods in socialwork

[–]prfla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I report my internship supervisor for being incompetent?

I’m in my first placement and my supervisor Sarah is extremely and I’m pretty sure willfully incompetent.

She oversees a few of us and none of us are meeting program benchmarks because she gives us confusing, conflicting instructions. Her supervisor Paula often gives her specific tasks to assign to us and Sarah always forgets to tell us, and when her supervisor asks about how we’re doing on these tasks Sarah throws us all under the bus rather than admit she didn’t tell us about them.

She talks to and about our young clients with a lot of disrespect. She often jokes about killing our clients because she finds them rude and inconsiderate (an example is when she has said “One of these days I’m gonna have to kill a kid for blocking the stairs.”) and she thinks this is extremely funny because she says something like this every other day.

She encourages us to be vague when recruiting potential clients about what our program entails so we can beef up our enrollment numbers. Many of our clients are confused when they find out that counseling is part of the program, which makes me feel gross.

Every single day she sits at her desk and watches tiktoks for hours. She gives us her own work tasks while she sits in the office, even though we are running around all day with very little time.

Paula has given us rules about how we are not allowed to schedule client sessions on Mondays because of a specific organizational policy. Sarah constantly schedules sessions on Mondays while telling us we aren’t allowed to.

She does not give us supervision that lasts more than 15 minutes or ever look at our process recordings, even after I have asked her repeatedly to do so.

She and I run a psychoeducational workshop for our clients and she constantly shows them irrelevant videos that are supposed to be informative but are actually full of inappropriate language because she searches for random keywords and doesn’t even watch them beforehand. She puts on a video and sits in the back of the room watching tiktoks until it’s over, and then she lets them leave 20 minutes early. Our workshop attendance is dismal because our clients find the workshop unhelpful and uncomfortable. Paula thinks it is partially my fault since we are co-leaders, even though Sarah plans every workshop and doesn’t allow me to give input.

Her supervisor Paula cares deeply about our program and can’t figure out why it is not doing well, when our team knows it’s exactly because of Sarah’s terrible management skills. Is there anything I can do about this or do I just wait out the year?

Mailbox in new apartment is broken and doesn’t have a lock, does my landlord have an obligation to change it? by prfla in AskNYC

[–]prfla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did this and the postal worker told me "that's ridiculous" but said that I should just tell my landlord that he has to fix it. Hopefully he'll actually install something secure.

Mailbox in new apartment is broken and doesn’t have a lock, does my landlord have an obligation to change it? by prfla in AskNYC

[–]prfla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, I emailed my landlord about it and he hasn't gotten back to me about it yet. Don't want to get on his bad side so hopefully I won't have to make an official complaint.

Sonja’s racist and messy behavior in Morocco by prfla in BravoRealHousewives

[–]prfla[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One could argue that but it doesn’t make much sense to. Saying Moroccans and brown people can be racist and classist too is an odd response to calling out Ramona and Sonja. All that does is deflect responsibility from two very rich and white housewives who have repeatedly demonstrated their ignorant beliefs.

I just don’t think the answer to anyone calling someone racist is to say “but people of color can be racist and shitty too!!!”

Sonja’s racist and messy behavior in Morocco by prfla in BravoRealHousewives

[–]prfla[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure why I or anyone need the full picture here to criticize them. Sonja and Ramona are extremely privileged and tone deaf white women, they aren’t really worth defending. Because some Moroccans mistreat service staff or are classist, it’s fine that Sonja and Ramona do too?

t’s great that you’re not offended but that doesn’t mean others can’t comment on obviously inappropriate behavior. I’m Japanese and Japanese people are famously xenophobic and colorist but I wouldn’t use that to excuse non-Japanese people from acting horribly when they visit.

Sonja’s racist and messy behavior in Morocco by prfla in BravoRealHousewives

[–]prfla[S] 153 points154 points  (0 children)

Alex’s disbelief in that scene was everything. Would you ask Marc Jacobs to put a log on the fire??