Local agencies for healthcare do “flu clinics” every fall. I’ve done this. It’s an easy money, relaxed gig that has no end of RNs and LPNs willing to participate. The agency supplies materials. Only requirement is space to set up. One of those 6ft tables is sufficient, 2 if you want four flu shot lines instead of two. Local businesses use this to supply employees with on site flu shots.

Walgreens and Walmart could do this too, at any time, to relieve their pharm staff of being stacked up with too many tasks. But they don’t.

It’s not a question of workers. More often, it’s a question of the billionaire employers being willing to pay more workers, temporary or otherwise.

Sounds about right. I know of a current strike where workers are asking nearly 25%.

This hike in living expenses needs wages to catch up since no one seems willing to roll back to normal on “supply chain” hikes during COVID.

Is this a Varric reference? “How about a giant sign that just says ‘Don’t’, [you could hit people with it.”]

Providence Health was officially dinged for this. The nonprofit aspect is such a joke.

The nonprofit requirement allows for feeding profits back into the institution. This can come in the form of investing in employees. Instead of investing in workers who directly impact patients by issuing bonuses, the CEOs get bonuses.

Instead of forgiving bills for the poorest patients, they offer payment plans instead.

It doesn’t matter how well you manage and save your money. In your geriatric years, those hospital CEOs will take it all.

I like it. Art and activism.

Points out awful business practice by Bezos in both the lack of bathroom breaks for employees and the lack of quality control in content.

No person was harmed. Product pulled to ensure as much once the piece was complete.

Well done.

Daevabad trilogy is solid. A nice change on the usual sword and sorcery stuff.

Dresden series is also good on audio. James Marsters does a good job.

The Stars Now Unclaimed. The story is decent but the dialogue is pretty crappy. Seems like I’m always scrounging for sci fi with good characters that can carry concept and story.

By simply having all PC games mod able and with accessible console commands, most issues will eventually have workarounds.

It’s October, but does this guy not have a nose?

Their content turned fairly bad. Witcher and Stranger Things were the only reasons to keep it. So why keep it?

Haven’t had it for a while. It was cool in the 00s, started to go bad in the 10s. Inertia can only take you so far.

Hell, even AppleTV free run had more decent content for 3 mos.

That is atypical.

Now if you become one with a chair for most of the day, expect it in your 40s. And expect an active 80+ year old to physically kick your ass by the time you hit 60.

But 30s? That’s an outlier.

One issue with mother baby units is they are loss leaders. This is why not every hospital has them. They only drain money from a hospital. If the hospital has other money making specialists bringing in the cash, then the mother baby unit can stay.

The other piece is a hospital can only have units for the medical specialists they can attract. If, say, they can’t find cardiologists then there will be no cath lab, and patients needing that care will have to be transferred elsewhere. If, say, Alabama is having a hard time attracting OBGYNs due to archaic laws regarding women’s medical care, then the unit would have to close even if the hospital has no financial reason to do so.

Time is a commodity, and becomes even more tight as an individual living from paycheck to paycheck. Grocery shopping every day or two likely isn’t tenable. Not if you want time to sleep between 16h work days.

It’s why some poor folks rely on fast food. There’s no time for anything else.

I assumed this was a nursing sub until I looked closer. Hospital management only does horrid shit like this for staff.

These “rewards” are awful. My condolences.

If you’re lucky though, maybe you’ll get a small rock with a “You Rock!” printout next time.

Not stand up. David Sedaris, his life essays, not the short stories.

The Ship Shape, amiright?

Honestly, bread is a good start for something beyond defrosting frozen food on a cookie sheet in the oven.

Water, flour, yeast, and a bit of honey/sugar to start the yeast. Simple ingredients and you sit on your ass gaming/reading for most of it.

And it’s a confidence booster.

Time is often the ultimate commodity. It’s why you see some of the poorest folks grabbing fast food. No time for groceries or cooking in earnest.

How do you fit time for all of what you just said into that work/life schedule?

While everything you say is true, it’s not all scornful.

Some folks work 8-16hrs a day and if they don’t, their child will cry in hunger, the lights get shut off, and immediate needs get difficult.

It’s not all about TV and fast food, it’s about the bottom layer or two of Maslow’s Heirarchy.

It’s why we had riots post George Floyd. People had time (off work) alongside an unemployment check (no scorn as I type that, just laying out some of the contributing variables that made it so.). Hell, lack of social interaction may have brought folks out to where other people were as well.

The root reason can be noble as fuck, but without the right set of circumstances that allows for some assurance of not losing job, roof, health care and such, it ain’t happening, at least not to any effective scale.

Idk what it was about Voyager, it never really popped as a series for me. Mulgrew was great.

She was also great as Red and Flemeth/Mythal (my money is on Mythal anyway).

The rest of the cast was rather blah. No on screen repor.

Indirectly, this is also a vote for OBGYN access. Doctors aren’t required to evenly distribute themselves across the states, they choose.

If they know they can’t follow through on the best care for their patients, whatever that looks like, that doesn’t incentivize an OBGYN to choose Cleveland over other places.

This is the answer.

Levity can be a great tool for not being dramatically serious about everything such that encounters regarding safety engagement are less confrontational than they otherwise would be.

This, btw, is exemplary of the PNW low level anxiety stuff I refer to when referencing the increased hum anxiety draped over the region as a whole.

I’m not labelling it as good or bad. Just acknowledging that it exists.

OP is right, but so are you and I. Context and individuals involved matter.