stoicmaverick @ stoicmaverick @lemmy.world

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This is the most unhelpful, unnecessary thing I have heard anybody say all day, and my mother is still visiting...

It's not even that. They are already in the building. I am just asking them to go and work on a different unit that had two people call out 15 minutes before shift start. I literally had a nurse look at me and say "I'm too valuable to be disrespected like that. If you don't start treating me right, I'm walking out that same door I came in." This was after I asked her to go do the exact same job she was doing on an adjacent unit where she didn't like one of the aids there.

Nursing supervisor here. Let me tell you a story just in case you might have been able to sleep tonight. I work in a long-term care facility, and most of our staff of nurses is from a staffing agency, which has the same effect as a union. Normally I'm all for unions, except many of these nurses feel incredibly entitled to work how and whenever they want. If I ask them to go fill a vacancy on a different unit that they don't want to work on, they will just cry oppression, and threaten to leave that very minute, which they are able to do because they come from a staffing agency and not our facility. There is literally no scenario where we can just not have nurses, so we are forced to bend around backwards to let them have whatever they want, come on to shift as late as they want, etc, or we have no staff to run a facility and care for patients. At least in my area, shitty nurses are better than no nurses, and many of them choose to weaponize this fact. I'll just reiterate that I am myself a working registered nurse, and these are the facts that I deal with everyday.

Edit: in case it wasn't clear, I'll fight through the gates of hell and back for my nurses, and I frequently end up on a med cart to fill those vacancies I mentioned. The nursing shortage is really bad you guys.

You ever consider combining these hobbies to make yourself into a badass, modern day samurai? Consider adding poetry to the list.

No he won't. Elon loves him, and what the hell is Twitter?

I don't know man. I was going for a 'comically supportive thing as though he was actually emotionally devastated by it but didn't want to admit it' vibe, but I guess somebody read it wrong, and everyone else assumed the worst. You know... the Internet.

Do you not like sound of the read head scraping against the platter on spin up? Weirdo... It's a rare treat, so you have to appreciate it while it's there.

Also the ever present buzz of the 50-60hz power all around you all the time depending on where you live.

Bombs. The post office HATE that.

Oh yeah. We had an exchange student many years ago from Germany and it took her a while to adjust to the actual voices of the actors on Star Trek Voyager, of which she was a fan, because she had only ever heard it with German dubs.

What is your language? A 1 to 1 translation can be varying degrees of awkward depending on the two languages involved.

What WAS she holding? I'll have to look into it. I'm a little behind the anime times right now.

Winamp. Everybody line up so I can just run down the row while holding my fist at face hight.

Can I? Because I want to.

I've actually looked into this a little bit, and it seems that the best strategy is to have a lot of money. It doesn't actually decrease the rent at all, and in fact makes it worse in the long run, but it keeps it from becoming a problem for YOU.

Squirt, the act.

It probably tastes like nothing because it instantly numbed your tongue.

"WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE!!!" solid reference.

Well then I'm not sure where to go from here, because you're implying that I said things which I didn't.