Right? I see that often. Really bugs me because it doesn’t make sense.
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“I felt that my direct supervisor (Jordan) violated my basic human rights by directing me to wear clothes not befitting a 61-year-old grown man,” Thompson stated in the complaint, according to the Times Union. “Dressing me up as a leprechaun is wrong.”
It is wrong. While your feeling your feelings, please take a moment to also try and empathize with women’s harassment complaints in the workplace that the GOP have so busily trying to sluff off as feminist sensitivity, and thank your lucky stars he didn’t ask you to wear a sexy leprechaun costume.
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Well, it’s been years since I’ve been to a drinking establishment, but I do have a pure oak walking stick – and, yes, I could really hurt someone if need be. I am super short (4’8" barely) and I have a bunch of Irish blood pulsing through my veins. Hmmm …
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Well then maybe you could earn some spare cash and work for the Senator donning the costume. Add another statistic to those optimistic GOP job numbers.
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Only if I get to knee-cap a few GOPers.
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I was acquainted with two Irishmen in college - not only did they not get St. Patrick’s day - but were incensed because everyone at the bars thought their accents were fake.
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Hurt me, hurt me! Treat me mean. Dress up in a leprechaun costume and tell me lies.
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How do you know he didn’t? 
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TPM’s incredible pinpoint niche marketing strategy has paid off and they’ve found an audience for more columns involving furries. That money they paid facebook was well spent.
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I’ve heard tell that if you sign up for “prime,” you get furry porn.
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Imagine having to wear a rabbit costume. Only a truly degraded shell of a person would consent to do that.
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Sigh.
Is it “Thomas” or “Thompson?”
I hate to keep beating this dead horse but CAN WE PLEASE GET SIMPLE DETAILS LIKE PEOPLE’S NAMES RIGHT AROUND HERE?
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I thank St. Patrick every day that we don’t see these kinds of stories about democrats.
I wish I didn’t have to see them at all.
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Think if you asked a female colleague to dress up with as a French maid, would it be funny or abuse.
I’d say abuse.
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Wasn’t he the subject of some R.Crumb comix?
ETA: Correction - S. Clay Wilson.
Leprechaun as a snowflake does not compute. Systems are fucking overloading with Onion in my daily newsfeed.
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I imagine the costume would have been only the start if he had submitted to this request.
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It’s magically degrading!
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Don’t you mean Sean Spicer?
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OT: But this seems kind of important.
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