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Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has requested an emergency injunction to block President Donald Trump's attempt to fire her over allegations that she committed mortgage fraud when she purchased a home and condo in 2021.

Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters has been a smash hit, earning the streaming service its first box-office win and placing four songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the animated film.

Q: Who is KPop Demon Hunters for?

A: Anyone who can get past the title. 

Q: What genre is the film?

A: Best Buy TV demo.

Q: Is it based on intellectual property?

A: Yes, Korea. 

Q: Where can I watch KPop Demon Hunters ?

A: On a school-provided iPad.

Q: Is there merch?

No, no, absolutely not. Your kid’s room barely has space for their bed as it is.

Q: Why K-pop?

A: Kids today just don’t fuck with jazz fusion like they used to.

Q: Will there be a sequel?

A: Do you think Netflix could resist running this thing into the ground?

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LEAWOOD, KS—Insisting she wanted to keep her wedding as small and intimate as possible, recently engaged pop star Taylor Swift reportedly told Brittany Mahomes Friday that she wasn’t having any bridesmaids. “It’s really sweet of you to offer, Brittany, but when I thought about it, I realized I’ve just never imagined my wedding with bridesmaids,” said Swift, who responded to Mahomes’ question about whether she should start planning the bachelorette party by insisting that not even future sister-in-law Kylie Kelce was going to be involved in the ceremony. “Coordinating dresses and figuring out travel for everyone would be such a headache. It’s too bad, because of course you would have been my dream bridesmaid! But at the end of the day, a wedding party just doesn’t feel right to Travis and me. Honestly, we might not even have a reception.” Swift added that if Mahomes wanted to grab coffee the week after the wedding, she’d love to celebrate then.

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DENVER—In what’s being decried as an outrageous case of price-gouging, scalpers have reportedly begun charging as much as $11 for Colorado Rockies tickets, forcing some baseball fans to pay an unreasonably steep price to watch the last-place team. “I can understand $6 or $7 if we’re talking a few rows behind home plate, but some of these guys are out here asking double digits for upper deck,” said fan Connor DeLuca, noting that he paid “almost what a beer costs” for a seat in the mostly empty 200-level at Thursday’s matchup between the Rockies and the Diamondbacks. “I mean, you’d have to stay at least five innings to get your money’s worth. It’s extortion, plain and simple.” When reached for comment, a spokesperson said the Rockies were working to curb resale prices so more fans could afford to watch the team get blown out by eight runs.

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Senate Bill 8 will restrict restrooms in government buildings, public schools and universities based on sex assigned at birth and apply $25,000 fines for violations.

At last, the luthier. It’s so good to meet this character we have heard so much about! He’s a real live wire!!

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A recent study from Harvard Medical School asks whether the element lithium might be a key factor in whether someone develops Alzheimer’s disease.

The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Europeans angry at Elon Musk still aren't buying his cars months after the billionaire predicted a “major rebound” in Tesla sales, data released Thursday shows.

Three European countries that were part of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal launched a process to reimpose sanctions that were lifted a decade ago as part of the agreement. France, Germany and the United Kingdom accused Iran of breaking its commitments, starting a 30-day clock that could end with Iran’s economy further squeezed, arms deals halted and foreign assets frozen. Nick Schifrin reports.

President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie before the body considers the largest railroad merger ever proposed.

ICE arrested Jemmy Jimenez-Rosa in Boston as she and her family returned home to the U.S. after a vacation in Mexico. Rosa, who has a green card, was held for 10 days and moved between detention facilities. She's one of many with no violent criminal convictions caught up in the administration’s immigration crackdown. Amna Nawaz spoke with Jemmy's husband, Marcel Rosa, and attorney Todd Pomerleau.

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…

1. My company makes summer interns wear bikinis

I work at a car dealership, and recently we hired two college interns to work here for six months. Every summer we have an event at the dealership themed around the summer, and usually it’s just marketed as some sort of summer blowout sale. This summer, since hiring the two interns, it has been re-marketed as “summer beach days” by our male dealership manager (the dealership is 80% male employees and managers). Our interns are women ages 21 and 19 and were brought into the manager’s office and I believe pressured to agree to a new “uniform” for the rest of summer. You guessed it … bikinis. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, two weeks later they changed the “uniform” and handed the girls THONG bikinis. So now we have two young ladies selling cars all day walking around with their bare bums on display for all the customers and staff to see. The male customers certainly love this, it seems, and many times the manger has asked the young women to hold a sign out on the street, wearing their bikinis. The dealership manager even had them pose for photographs and post them on social media for marketing purposes. A couple of the pictures were from the front but one was from behind, so now the dealership is posting this photo of our interns’ asses on social media on a weekly basis.

The young women seemed a bit uncomfortable at first, but I’m not sure how they feel now. I am sure that they were pressured into this and that this was not in the plan when they signed up to work here. I have gotten to know them both a bit, and they are both so smart. I imagine in their minds they just have to deal with this on a temporary basis but it’s hard to watch. Maybe there is nothing that can be done but should I at least ask them how they feel about their bums frequently being posted to social media and try to get the pictures removed?

Please talk to them and tell them if they don’t want to wear bikinis at work, you will support them in pushing back — that this isn’t something they’re obligated to do and they have the right to refuse to do it. Ideally you’d also tell them that you’ll enlist other coworkers in supporting their stance if that helps make them more comfortable refusing (assuming you have decent colleagues who would in fact stand up for them once asked to). Let them know they can also say no to the photos and can ask to have the ones that were already posted removed if they want to.

I suppose it’s possible that you’ll find out that they’re enthusiastically consenting to all of this, but have the conversation since they may not realize their options. And even if they end up not pushing back on it, you’ll very likely be planting a seed in their thinking for the future.

You might also tell whoever in charge of hiring that if they’re going to ask this of future interns, they need to make it very clear it’s part of the job before anyone signs on.

2. Should managers expect apologies?

I’ve been in my current job for under a year, and my relationship with one of my direct reports has been challenging from the beginning. We have had a lot of communication issues, and they seem to have a strong tendency toward defensiveness, being territorial with their work, and assuming bad intentions of others. We recently had things come to a head, and their reaction to a mistake in their work being pointed out was unprofessional and unacceptable. I was able to address this with them later in the day. They seemed to somewhat know what they did was not okay, but mostly responded with defensiveness and deflection. They never apologized for the unacceptable reaction.

I have always made it a point to apologize personally and professionally when I have made mistakes and talk about what I would do differently going forward, so it definitely rubbed me the wrong way when they did not. Should managers expect an apology when something like this happens?

Eh. If I were advising the employee, I’d suggest they apologize if they flew off the handle or behaved inappropriately, but there’s no value in managers getting hung up on whether the person apologizes or not. The thing that you very much should be hung up on is whether they understand that what happened was a problem and can’t happen again and that they’re taking steps to ensure it doesn’t. It doesn’t sound like that was the case here, and that part is a big deal. I’d take it as a sign that it’s time to get very assertive about addressing the pattern of issues and either seeing quick and sustained improvement or considering whether you need to move the person out of the job.

3. Manager won’t keep any complaints anonymous

I need a sanity check over whether a manager’s idea around managing complaints is as bad as my team and I think it is.

I’m the senior of a small team and we work rotating shifts in a 24/7 control room environment. Our manager, Bob, is (a) on standard business hours and (b) managing multiple teams, so if we have an issue with work by someone on another team, it typically needs to be emailed to him to deal with it, as we will physically see him two days a week at most and not at all if he’s WFH when we’re in.

This would be fine, but his idea of dealing with it includes attaching your email to the email he’s sending to the person in question so there’s no anonymity. His reasoning is, “You’re all adults, you can deal with it and I believe in transparency, you should know what other people are saying about you.” This is exactly what happened with a major error we found in another team’s work, corrected, and sent to him so the person could be retrained. Bob included our emails in the one he sent to the person who made the error! Thankfully it was all professional, but still! What makes it worse is that this person is a known bully who now knows exactly who found and highlighted their errors.

I shared this with my team to warn them and their immediate reactions were “he’s throwing us under the bus” and “we can’t tell him anything at all, much less anything in confidence.” I agree with them completely, and I’ve told my team to funnel future issues through me and I’ll anonymize it before forwarding it on to Bob. I’ve also been in touch with HR but their response has been lukewarm. It also doesn’t help that Bob has a vindictive streak a mile wide and I’ve told HR I am very concerned about retaliation.

I’m not overreacting? This is bad practice?

You are not overreacting and this is terrible practice!

It’s all well and good to say you’re all adults and he believes in transparency — but human nature and internal politics are both real things! Of course people will worry about the consequences. And even if he doesn’t understand why because he wouldn’t feel that way himself (something that’s easy to say when you’re the one in a position of authority), it’s still how many people will feel and he needs to engage with the reality of human nature, not just pretend it doesn’t exist. He’s going to hear about far fewer issues if his staff knows that what they relay to him will be seen, in writing, by the person in question.

I’m not terribly surprised HR isn’t helping; at a lot of organizations, HR doesn’t get involved in coaching managers on things like this and instead gives them wide berth in how they operate as long as they’re not breaking the law. So your solution of having people funnel issues through you is probably the best place you’re going to land.

4. My new job just laid people off but I’m still here

I started my job at a small workplace (16 staff) in December. They just laid off three employees for budgetary reasons, which was a big shock to everyone. Despite being the newest person on the team, I was not let go. I can only assume it has to do with my specific role, but I really don’t know why they made the decision they made. I keep thinking they should have let me go and promoted one of the other staff who had been here several years into my role.

Whatever the reasoning for how this all shook out, I’m wracked with guilt about it. I feel awkward in the office now. I’m not sure how to address all of this among the small team, or even how to just be, when I was still working on learning the ropes and making good impressions with everyone. I appreciate any advice you can offer.

There are a ton of very good reasons for why they might have done it this way! The likeliest is that it was indeed about your role — layoffs are most commonly about cutting positions, not specific people. The organization can’t afford as many positions as it could previously, so it has to look at which roles are most expendable; it might be a lot easier to stop having, for example, a marketing assistant than a bookkeeper. Or sometimes they have to cut an entire program, and so the people who worked on that program are the ones who are cut.

But if your role is similar to ones that were cut, then it’s possible that they had different reasons for choosing the people who were laid off — for example, that they weren’t performing well, were difficult to work with, or their salaries were much more expensive than yours.

It’s very unlikely that any of your remaining coworkers blame you or resent you for still being there. (Plus, in such a small office, they might have a good idea of the factors that went into the decision and be able to see clearly why those specific people were cut.) Focus on learning the job and contributing in your role, and this should be fine.

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This is how the Crusades were fought, too, right?

A Houston City Council member wants to require more transparency and public engagement from mayoral administrations before changes are made to infrastructure projects. Mayor John Whitmire’s office is concerned about the administrative burden of more frequent reports.

Here is an overview of shows coming to museums and arts organizations in the Dallas and Fort Worth region this fall, including shows at the Crow Museum of Asian Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and other institutions.

Dallas

The Crow Museum of Asian Art presents Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea, bringing together artists concerned with materiality, space, and performance in the 1950s. Proponents of the Mono-ha, Dansaekhwa, and Gutai movements rigorously interrogated and explored artistic performances, made playful use of materials, and experimented with new techniques. Two contemporary artists, Do Ho Suh and Tatsuo Miyajima, are included as means to provoke a dialog and conversation about the antecedents and legacy of performance art for contemporary artists.

With artworks drawn from the Dallas Museum of Art collection, the exhibition opens at the Crow Museum’s University of Texas at Dallas location in Richardson on Saturday, September 6, and runs through July 26, 2026.

A survey of British sculptor Antony Gormley opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center on Saturday, September 13. This is the first U.S. museum survey of the Turner Prize-winning artist’s work, spanning 45 years of considering how sculpture, architecture, and bodies interact. In addition to the work shown at the museum, Mr. Gormley will debut a project installed on the rooftops of skyscrapers in and around downtown Dallas.

The exhibition continues through January 4, 2026.

At the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson brings together more than 30 years’ worth of documentary photography by this Dallas-based artist, focusing on Ms. Wilson’s sojourns across Mexico and areas just beyond its northern border. Roaming Mexico will include recent work made specifically for this exhibition. For four decades, her images have broadly defined the mythological “American West” as populated with characters defined by their distance, landscapes, and lifeways that stand in sharp contrast to claustrophobic urban life.

In conjunction with Ms. Wilson’s show, the Meadows will present an intimate exhibition featuring the work of Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, whom the museum calls “one of the most important artists in 20th-century Latin America.” A contemporary of luminaries Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Edward Weston, Mr. Álvarez Bravo’s photography reflects the complexities of Mexican identity, juxtaposing the everyday with the enigmatic.

Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson and Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Visions of Mexico will open Sunday, September 14, and runs through January 11, 2026.

Creatures and Captives: Painted Textiles of the Ancient Andes presents Andean textiles from the Dallas Museum of Art collection, dating from the 11th through 16th centuries. According to the museum, ancient Andean artists painted animals, humans, abstract motifs, and mythical beings on undyed cotton cloth in a subtle color palette, standing apart from traditionally woven textiles. The exhibition runs from Tuesday, September 23 through February 22, 2026.

Wearable works of art feature in the DMA’s second fall exhibition, Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art, with more than 350 works on view. The show surveys nearly a century of innovative jewelrymaking, illuminating connections that unite established masters and burgeoning talents, and that transcend chronological boundaries and geographical borders. Constellations opens Sunday, November 9, and runs through May 3, 2026.

The education-focused New York Academy of Art presents its Chubb Fellows and Friends at Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, from Saturday, October 4 through Sunday, December 14. The Academy annually awards Chubb Fellowships to three outstanding alumni. This exhibition features awardees alongside peers and professors for a 43-year retrospective of the institution’s figurative art tradition.

The swashbuckling fantasy phenomenon Game of Thrones arrives at the Arlington Museum of Art on October 4, with Game of Thrones: The Exhibition, running through April 5, 2026. The exhibition will showcase 60 meticulously crafted costumes from the eight seasons of the HBO series, along with props from the show, and a behind-the-scenes look at the popular show.

The Dallas Contemporary hosts two solo exhibitions opening Friday, November 7. Chris Wolston’s work ranges from furniture and lighting to installation and sculpture, blending traditional techniques and materials with a wry, contemporary realism. According to the non-collecting, kunsthalle-style museum, Mr. Wolston “arrives at an entirely original postmodern aesthetic, imbued with material fluency and environmental urgency.” His show runs through February 1, 2026.

The first major U.S. institutional exhibition of London-based painter Pam Evelyn will present large-scale works created over an extended period of focused painting in various locations, including Cornwall, England, and the Watermill Center on Long Island in New York. At Dallas Contemporary, Ms. Evelyn’s works will be installed in concert with the gallery’s architecture, creating false walls and divisions within the space that allow for views from every angle. The exhibition will be on display through March 15, 2026.

Fort Worth

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts will inaugurate its new home with Joe Harjo: Indian Removal Act III: We are a Wounding, the third and final installment in Mr. Harjo’s exhibition series. The artist describes these shows as “delving into the historical and contemporary issues that have profoundly affected Native American communities, our land, our narratives, and our pursuit of prosperous futures.” Opening Friday, September 5 and running through Saturday, November 15, the exhibition includes new photography, video, sculpture, prints, text, and installation.

American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection arrives to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art on Saturday, September 6, and will run through January 25, 2026. The first exhibition dedicated to the collection of businessman, philanthropist, and Texas native Charles Butt includes works by American modernist icons Romare Bearden, Edward Hopper, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alma Thomas, and Andrew Wyeth, many of which have never before been on public view.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth presents Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, touted by the museum as “the most important private collection of Roman marble sculptures in the world. Comprising more than 600 works and a wide range of sculptural types and subjects, its holdings rival those of major institutions, including the Capitoline and Vatican Museums.” Fifty-eight ancient marble masterpieces will be on view from Sunday, September 14 through January 25, 2026.

As noted previously in Glasstire, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will be the only U.S. venue to host the landmark exhibition Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, a retrospective honoring the English artist. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London, the exhibition is broadly chronological in scope, bringing together nearly 50 works made throughout Ms. Saville’s career.

The exhibition will open Sunday, October 12, 2025, and run through January 18, 2026. The artist will be on hand at the museum to deliver a lecture on Friday, October 10 at 6 p.m.

Wichita Falls

The Kemp Center for the Arts in Wichita Falls will open its annual Small Works Juried Exhibit on Thursday, September 18, featuring more than 140 original artworks all 5 by 7 inches or smaller, created by artists from around the country. The show was judged by renowned miniaturist Marianela de la Hoz.

Learn more about other current and upcoming exhibitions in the Dallas/Fort Worth area via Glasstire’s event listings.

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Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.

For last week’s picks, please go here.

1. Hung Hsien: Between Worlds
Asia Society Texas (Houston)
April 16 – September 21, 2025

From Asia Society Texas:

“A solo exhibition of the pioneering modern ink artist and Houston resident Hung Hsien (洪嫻, Margaret Chang, b. 1933) celebrates the life and artistic legacy of one of the most important yet underrepresented contributors to the development of modern ink painting. The exhibition will be the artist’s first retrospective, surveying a career that spans more than 70 years, from her early years as a fledgling artist in Taiwan to her mature, signature cosmic abstractions.”

Read an interview with artist Hung Hsien here.

2. Veronica Ibargüengoitia: Nuestras Huellas en Esta Tierra / Our Footprints on This Land
Latino Cultural Center (Dallas)
August 2 – September 5, 2025

From the Latino Cultural Center:

“Nuestras Huellas en Esta Tierra / Our Footprints on This Land presents a powerful meditation on migration, belonging, and the traces we leave upon the land. Through immersive installations, Ibargüengoitia invites viewers to reflect on the psychological and physical toll of displacement and the resilience of those who traverse unfamiliar territories.”

3. Daniela Oliver de Portillo: So Marvelous, De Nuevo Florecer
Ruiz-Healy Art (San Antonio)
August 27 – September 13, 2025

From Ruiz-Healy Art:

“Daniela Oliver de Portillo’s process is complex — digital and cyanotype photo processes, drawings, floral arrangements, and hand-formed ceramic vases reflect the nuances of everyday life for mothers. The use of flowers is often at the forefront of the work, long associated with domestic beauty, celebration, and ritual, serving as a metaphor for the duality of perceived effortlessness and the deep complexities of motherhood. Her work aims to reveal what lies beneath society’s reduced roles and expectations: the stories, histories, and identities beyond first impressions.”

4. Manuel Miranda: Animals Living Together
Castro Gallery (Harlingen)
August 29 – September 19, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, August 29, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

From Castro Gallery:

“Born in Mexico City in 1935, Manuel Miranda began painting in 1967 and worked as an illustrator for several Mexican publications before moving to McAllen, TX, in 2000. Animals Living Together presents a series of artworks made by Miranda between 2009-2025 featuring figures painted in a stream of consciousness style that explore his interests in literature and philosophy while attempting to maintain a childlike sense of wonder for the surrounding world. Useful references include the automatic drawings of Surrealism and Dada, along with the pure and authentic creative impulses of the Art Brut movement.”

5. Marcus Xavier Chormicle: BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO
El Paso Frame Company
July 25 – September 1, 2025

From the artist:

“Marcus Xavier Chormicle, a primarily lens based artist, will be exhibiting a series of serigraphs featuring patterns extrapolated from imagery from his photographic practice. BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO is an exploration of generationality and belonging through design and patterning. Taking inspiration from the final pages of AutoBiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar ‘Zeta’ Acosta, Chormicle uses imagery, taken from his photographic practice, of a raven in flight and a man, his uncle, in free fall. The patterns of the multitudinous nature of relations among Indigenous and Chicano people. The repeated figures invoke themes of travel, migration, flight and the perpetuation of generational cycles.”

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Ohh… my tummy hurts…

For years, experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels under the area to divert floodwaters and save lives and property. Now, Elon Musk wants a piece of the project.

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Shelby Talcott, reporting under the euphemistic headline “White House Fires CDC Director Over Vaccine Disagreements”:

A showdown at the CDC culminated in the White House formally firing its director, Susan Monarez, on Wednesday night.

Monarez was ousted earlier in the day, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked her to step down amid disagreements over changing vaccine policies, The Washington Post reported — and HHS confirmed her departure.

But Monarez’s lawyer, Mark Zaid, pushed back. Zaid said in a statement later that a White House staffer had delivered the news, and given that Monarez is a Senate-confirmed officer, “only the president himself can fire” her. “For this reason, we reject the notification Dr. Monarez has received as legally deficient and she remains as CDC Director,” Zaid said.

Four other top CDC directors also resigned Wednesday. “These high profile departures will require oversight by the” Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, panel chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., posted on X.

The “White House” didn’t fire Monarez. Donald Trump did. And while technically, she was fired over “vaccine disagreements”, yes, those disagreements weren’t scientific or medical. It was science on one side, and abject quackery on the other. We really needed the CDC five years ago. We’re in big trouble if we need them again before the US electorate ousts these wingnuts.

Here’s a headline, and coverage, from The Guardian that captures the situation with clarity and without mincing words: “CDC Chief ‘Targeted’ for Refusing to ‘Rubber-Stamp Unscientific, Reckless Directives’, Lawyers Say”

Here are three updates from past letter-writers.

1. A senior coworker keeps calling me my manager’s “girlfriend”

It got back to “Jane” I was uncomfortable with what she was saying, so she pulled me aside and asked in the future if I could come to her directly with any issues I have with her. She apologized for making me feel uncomfortable but she meant no harm as she could tell I had a crush on “Lucas.”

After your advice and the comments, I tried pulling back from “Lucas” but it was difficult; every time I would, his flirting would intensify. At this point I must own my actions and feelings because “Lucas” was the first man I was truly interested in romantically in years. Our flirting and his favoritism towards me intensified. Just about everyone left it alone or would use it to their advantage, asking me for favors because they knew Lucas would do it for me. The only person annoyed by Lucas and me was the newly promoted shift leader, “Bill.” He and I clashed on the nights he’d be in charge after the manager would go home because he had new ideas on how things should be run despite the fact that they went against company standards. I told our general manager about it. When Bill was called in to talk about it, Lucas told the general manager he was staying out of it because he knew everyone would automatically assume he would take my side and that wasn’t fair to Bill. Bill did get in some trouble and he decided it was my fault.

A couple months later, on a night Bill was in charge, I ended up having a very difficult customer who kept saying awful things to me and who I couldn’t please no matter what. I finally snapped and said something I shouldn’t have. The customer started yelling at me and it caught the attention of Bill and I was sent home. Bill called our general manager about the whole thing, and my next three shifts were canceled. The general manager fired me over the phone.

I was so upset, mostly because this was not how I wanted things to end between Lucas and me. A few days after I was fired, I stopped by in the evening and “Jane” was working. She gave me a hug and asked what happened. Turns out neither the general manager or Bill told anyone what happened, despite their asking where I was. She said I needed to stop by and see Lucas, so I did. I told him my side of what happened and he said the whole thing was stupid that if he, or Jane, or even the other manager had been on, I would have just been written up.

Since he was no longer my boss, towards the end of the conversation I asked if he wanted to get dinner at the restaurant he was always talking about wanting to go to but never had the time. He said he appreciated the offer but it was going to be a no. I was crushed. I have spent several months getting over him, upset and confused. I have never had a man show so much interest in me, flirt with me like that, only to say no. A lot of my friends tell me it sounds like he liked having me enamored with him and the thrill of it being off-limits and able to toe the line with flirting and banter, but the moment it could be official it wasn’t interesting.

Work-wise, I’m doing good. I finish my master’s this semester, and I have a part-time job in the field in which I’m getting my master’s. They are working on getting me a raise and more hours, knowing I am going to look for a full-time job after I graduate. I know I’m not completely over “Lucas” but I will be eventually. The hard lesson is don’t flirt at work. And don’t be pulled back into it after you pull yourself out.

2. How to apply for a job (internally) that I am not sure is even open (#5 at the link)

I am the office clerk at a law firm who was asking how to ask about moving to a legal assistant position.

The update is that I had a semi-regular checkin with my boss (office manager) and asked how I might go about getting a legal assistant position at some point with the law firm I work at. I didn’t know this checkin was going to happen when I sent the letter in.

Anyway, she said that I would need to get certified for this specific role. Without it, I won’t have a shot – there is not a lot of “learning on the job” in terms of this position, I guess. I don’t know if other firms also require certification, but I imagine if not, it would still look better.

She did not mention the legal assistant who is moving to a new position, so either she really doesn’t know or can’t say anything. I wonder if they’ll be distributing the work to other assistants rather than opening the job up. But if I were certified and all that and a job sis open up at the firm, I would go to HR and talk about it, hear more about the role, etc.

But I already have an MLIS and really don’t want to go back to school of any kind (even for a couple years) so unless that changes, I am kind of stuck in the role at this firm. I would ask if the firm would reimburse tuition of some kind, but that wouldn’t really matter, I just don’t want to go back to school for an extended period of time (a monthly class or something for fun is obviously different).

Update to the update:

I was talking to a couple of my coworkers, and I mentioned that I was told that I need to have a certificate or something like that before I could be considered for the legal assistant position. One of my coworkers, who was a legal assistant at a different law firm, said that in in the state where we work, a certificate is not required. (But I assume law firms can make their own requirements?) I like to think I could channel my prior experience into the legal assistant role, but it sounds like I wouldn’t even be considered without certification.

I also heard through the grapevine that a prior clerk had asked about transferring to another role (not legal assistant) and was blocked. The reasoning might have been for legit reasons (experience-wise) but now I can’t help but wonder if they’re now blocking clerks from moving because they don’t want to train replacements. I heard other prior clerks have moved on to paralegal assistant positions and they don’t have certificates. So I wonder what the deal is. This job does a little bit of everything in the firm, for better or worse. But I’m going to ask about where boundaries are in what tasks we clerks get assigned to help with, because if they’re not going to pay a legal assistant’s salary, I don’t want to be doing a legal assistant’s job. (I welcome tips on how to bring this up!)

Either way, it sounds like there’s no way up from this position.

3. Can we encourage our unhappy coworker to leave? (#2 at the link)

We got a new group lead, who told the colleague to knock it off. She calmed down a bit, but still made it very clear that she was unhappy and that wouldn’t change.

In late 2024, the group had to reduce the number of employees, and Angry Colleague volunteered to be the one to leave (with a generous severance). The mood in our department has since been ambivalent — half happy the complaining stopped, half worried because having to let people go makes us wonder if the company is struggling. There have been several rounds of restructuring, people changing departments, and everything feels a bit unstable right now.

I don’t know if Angry Colleague has found a new job since, but I wish her all the best. It’s a tough market right now, but she’s an expert with a decade of experience so I hope she’ll be fine.

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TORONTO – A local lesbian who doesn’t care about sports has determined that that is why she cannot find love and therefore she may as well just die. Jesse Cameron, 33, came to the dire conclusion after yet another failed first date at a bar. “I was trying to talk to her about her childhood […]

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Despite losing the Democratic primary in June, Andrew Cuomo will be on the ballot this November as an independent candidate for New York City mayor. The Onion sat down with the former governor to discuss his campaign.

The Onion : How do you feel your campaign has been going so far?

Cuomo: I haven’t really been following it.

The Onion : What is your biggest political weakness?

Cuomo: Name recognition.

The Onion : You’ve allegedly been coordinating with President Trump. How did the two of you come into contact?

Cuomo: Our hands met while rubbing the same female staffer’s lower back.

The Onion : As mayor, what would be the most important areas to focus on first?

Cuomo: Her hips, and then her thighs.

The Onion : What is your vision for the future of New York?

Cuomo: My personal necropolis. A charnel city of the damned. The bloodstained throne from which I shall tame death herself.

The Onion : What advice would you give young people interested in politics?

Cuomo: Always be empathetic, resilient, and the child of a governor.

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PHOENIX—In an intense bout of insecurity and wariness toward his partner’s superficial focus, Fortune 500 CEO William Freitag, 57, reportedly expressed concerns Thursday that the 23-year-old woman he was currently dating was only into him for his keen business acumen. “I’m trying not to let it get to me, but deep down I can’t help feeling she’s just like all the rest and only with me because she wants networking tips and access to my strong client base—a tale as old as time, really,” said the multimillionaire head of Summit Network Systems, expressing bitterness after dinner with the young office assistant, who he speculated was only seeing him as an excuse to pick his brain for financial advice and team leadership expertise. “Look, I’m not a sucker. I’m well aware she wouldn’t agree to be seen in public with me if I didn’t have my talent for negotiation and the respect of my clients. Women like that only have one thing on their minds: finding a guy who has increased operating revenues year over year for each of the past three fiscal quarters.” At press time, Freitag admitted he was only dating the woman for her comprehensive knowledge of Gracie Abrams’ discography.

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SPARTANBURG, SC—Introducing a new promotion that will be available to both adults and children at its restaurants nationwide, 24-hour diner chain Denny’s announced this week that free pancakes would be provided to customers who take their fighting outside. “We know our customers love coming to Denny’s to participate in violent late-night brawls, and now those guests will be treated to a complimentary short stack as a thank-you for moving the bloodshed out of the restaurant and into the parking lot,” said company spokesperson Tricia Kim, who added that patrons watching the melee from inside a participating Denny’s location were welcome to bang the windows and yell “Fight! Fight! Fight!” in encouragement. “Once you’re done slamming your opponent through a car windshield, we invite you to wash the blood off your face and clothes in our bathroom and head back to your banquette for some fluffy buttermilk hotcakes—on us. This offer is valid for one fight per customer. Please note that fight participants who jump behind the counter, grab one of our kitchen knives, and use it to stab their opponents are not eligible for this deal.” The promotion follows last month’s offer of a free grilled ham slice for Denny’s customers who keep their verbal abuse down to a reasonable volume.

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