You are her bitch.

I'd suggest "scapegoat" which is a term used for a person who gets unfairly blamed because the authority figure feels a need to blame someone. Or perhaps "punching bag". That would be someone who's an easy target for abuse just for the authority figure's entertainment.

Can I use the word "scapegoat" if the boss doesn't have a need to blame someone, but just does it towards this one person sort of to bully but without any logical motivation except hate towards the person? Like, say I'm working at a restaurant and one of us five in the shift has to clean the toilets every day. The boss makes sure that it's me 100% of the time just because she hates me and has made me her...________? Scapegoat? Or say I'm late for school, my teacher hates me and gives me detention and calls my parents because she hates me and always gives me maximum punishment, whereas if some other kid is late the same amount he just gets a quick talk from the teacher. So again, I'm the teacher's ___?

I kinda feel like there's a specific word that I'm looking for here and I'm just drawing a massive blank. Scapecoat sounds to me like the authority figure has a motive to cover herself, and bitch I'm also not sure if I can use in this context.

Punching bag may still work. Whipping boy? Maybe puppet or pawn...as in someone who's manipulated. Victim? Target? I'm trying bud.

Whipping boy seems apt.

Whipping boy sounds pretty great, thanks!

one of the best things I've read recently, a 3400-word essay on English's oddities

Interesting read. Thanks for posting.

yeah, that was great

Old Navy has managed to offend artists and others with a line of toddler apparel. While disrespecting artists is bad enough, I'm just wondering why Old Navy thought the words "young aspiring artist" in caps on a t-shirt constitute a sentence and therefore deserve a period. What's up with that? I'm just wondering how many sets of eyes signed off on these shirts without asking about the offensiveness factor or the period.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.2480590

Ugh. This "I am offended" bull**** about stupid crap pisses me off. Yeah, wrong thread but I tried to keep the punctuation and grammar relatively correct.

Wow. Just wow.

"Dimitria Ayfantis, a neighbor of Sook Yeong Park, who faces labor trafficking charges."

in this sentence, who, exactly, is facing criminal charges?

Not only that, it isn't a sentence.

That is just a blurb below a photo and need not be a complete sentence.

My guess is Sook faces charges. But the structure is terrible.

This is mainly directed at those who live in America. Do you recognize the word "lock-up"? What does it mean to you, for example "I woke up from the lock-up"? Is it super standard or confusing?


Please only read the spoiler part once you've thought about the above.

I'd assume that some sort of privacy device, possibly a padlock, spontaneously flew into the ceiling at relativistic speeds, making a loud noise that disturbed your sleep.

Would it be horrible if I started using some of those Latin replacement words like groundwrought and endsay?

Our real estate agent listed our house today. The fliers have so many weird mistakes.

Inconsistent capitalization
Bizarre wording
Horrible punctuation

The holy trinity of errors is present.

The grocer's apostrophe is plaguing social media. It's one of the few errors that drives me bat**** insane. I've had to unfollow multiple quality fantasy football twitter accounts because of my illness (RB's, quarterback's, etc.).

Who is teaching this ignorance?

Welp

@steve1238: agent should be fired immediately.