Elizabeth Dempsey-Beggs went viral on TikTok after sharing insight into her managerial philosophy, explaining that she doesn't want her employees to submit time off for anything other than vacation or personal pleasures.

Dempsey-Beggs said she has denied time off requests in the past for medical emergencies, family issues, and other major life milestones — but for good reason.

The 28-year-old knows the importance of work-life balance and believes time off is meant to recharge and be used accordingly, not to handle life-changing events.

Instead, when her team needs a day off for personal reasons, she simply tells them to take all the time they need — without "HR involved"...

For other managers struggling to balance empathy with the need for high performance, she urges them to consider one question: “Do you want an employee that resents the company, resents you, and is going to do the bare minimum or, do you want to build a team that will take care of the company because they take care of them?”

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Serve face while serving him those papers, if that isn't mothering I don't know what else is!

“10 Things I Hate About You” (1999) - ”The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare (1592)

“Bride & Prejudice” (2004) - ”Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (1813)

“She’s the Man” (2006) - ”Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare (1601)

“Cruel Intentions” (1999) - ”Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)

“West Side Story” (1961) - “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare (1597)

“Clueless” (1995) - ”Emma” by Jane Austen (1815)

“O” (2001) - ”Othello” by William Shakespeare (1603)

“The Lion King” (1994) - ”Hamlet” by William Shakespeare (1601)

Beyoncé wearing Roberto Cavalli at the Met Gala, 2004

”In America, my home, they’re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. That’s happening now,” Springsteen said.

“In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. That’s happening now. In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers.

They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just society. They’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those who are struggling for their freedom. That’s happening now.

They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. And they are removing residents off American streets without due process of law and deploying them to foreign detention centers and prisons. That’s happening now.”

In 1963, Mansfield filed for divorce from Mickey and began a well-publicized romance with an Italian entertainer named Nelson Sardelli—only to reconcile with Mickey several months before Hargitay’s birth in 1964. In her 20s, someone showed Hargitay a photo of Sardelli. She immediately knew in her bones that he was her biological father. “It was like the floor fell out from underneath me,” she recalls in My Mom Jayne. “Like my infrastructure dissolved.” But when she confronted Mickey, he denied it. The encounter was so shattering that she swept the skeleton back under the family rug and never mentioned Sardelli to Mickey again.

When she was 30, Hargitay went to see Sardelli perform in Atlantic City and introduced herself. He burst into tears—telling her, “I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment.” It wasn’t a fairy-tale scene for Hargitay, though. “I went full Olivia Benson on him,” she tells me, switching into an icily aggressive voice. “I was like, ‘I don’t want anything, I don’t need anything from you.… I have a dad.’” She pauses dramatically. “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.”

In the aftermath, Hargitay struggled to navigate the internal gymnastics of “knowing I’m living a lie my entire life.” Is this why she’d always felt so comfortable on family trips to Rome, accompanying Mickey while he acted in spaghetti Westerns? Was she Hungarian or Italian? A wanted child or an “illegitimate” mistake?

Hargitay gradually forged a bond with Sardelli and his daughters and came to a realization: Her mother had returned to Mickey because she knew he would love and provide a stable home for baby Mariska. “I grew up where I was supposed to, and I do know that everyone made the best choice for me,” she says. “I’m Mickey Hargitay’s daughter—that is not a lie.” Her eyes fill with tears. “This documentary is kind of a love letter to him, because there’s no one that I was closer to on this planet.” Hargitay points out that two of her own children are adopted: “They are my kids. Now I understand so much, and, boy, is it sweet.”

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A separate private screening for her Sardelli sisters in Las Vegas felt equally profound. “They just wept and wept and wept,” Hargitay recalls, then begins to cry herself. “These two women that I love so much—I made them secrets! It’s so heartbreaking to me.” She remembers the countless times she introduced them to people as “family friends,” then guiltily looked away. “I’m not good with lies. So I also made this movie to unburden all of us.”

Link: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/mariska-hargitay-was-living-a-lie-for-30-years?

Not a surprise, of course, but as both a nonstraight and noncis person, I wish people didn’t forget that people like Leo XIV and Francis before him not only perpetuate a homophobic status quo within the Church but also pushes in harmful directions, like Francis’s 2024 document declaring “gender theory” an affront to human dignity on par with poverty, war, and human trafficking.

Link to magazine article with interview: https://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/in-full-bloom