Author: Shayna Citrenbaum

Valentine’s Day is unimaginative, artificial, and divisive. Single people feel left out. People in relationships are forced to deal with the guilt associated with gift-giving, which provokes an embarrassing sort of consumption-centered anxiety. Then single people get angry with those in relationships for exploiting their plight, or vice versa. Like

Some arguments for having an awful job are self-evident enough. If you have ever worked behind a cash register, you are familiar with a certain breed of customer who uses your stamp of minimum-wage labor to initiate a power struggle. They are all too familiar with the customer-is-always-right mentality, and