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Almost every other animal dies pretty quickly after having their last round of children / losing fertility, but humans live almost twice as long. Elders have a literal hardcoded purpose in human evolution.

I told my boss if she doesn’t stress me out by making me be charge nurse she can take credit for my weird hyperfocus side projects.

It’s working great so far, I just get left alone in my corner at night and every once in a while they send me a student or new grad to use as a lackey while I keep working on hyperfocused side projects. And when I’m not in hyperfocus I hole up in a suicide watch room with tea and a book.

And she doesn’t even actually take credit for anything the boss above her keeps sending me little acknowledgement pings on the recognition system and I get my raise every year (it’s not great but it’s not any worse than anyone else’s). And then the nurses fresh out of their new grad year that they manage to sucker into being charge nurse still come ask me for advice so I still have enough influence to get things done properly I just don’t have to do any bullshit tasks or get in trouble for dumb shit other people do like if I was charge.

I was kinda worried about working for the city community hospital and everybody said the patients were so much worse but like. HA. The university hospital had to shut a whole wing down for one dude who was punching at least one person a day and all the residents were too scared to either just discharge him to jail or drug the shit out of him and we didn’t even have the right kind of restraints for that level of violence. the worst it gets where I am now is somebody screaming in my face for an hour until their oral meds hit.

I miss the giant cafeteria and the employee only chapel and pharmacy and stuff and getting security to let me into the doctors lounge at 2am but everything else is way better.

yeah my mastectomy is on the books as alleviating back pain. and like. it did do that!

another relevant comparison is why it’s OK for you to get irradiated by the xray machine but the technician goes and hides behind the wall. you’re getting it done once today, the technician is doing it 50 times a day 3-5 days a week (or more depending on cost of living in the area 😉). You’ll notice a lot of those nail techs and dental professionals are also wearing respirators while applying product to their clients and patients. wear your ppe.

a few weeks ago the cat jumped up on the couch behind me to start gagging right over my head. it was a whole new level of Audacity that I never even knew existed.

the beanie tho

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The worst part is that it’s not just that it’s a position of power, it’s that there’s also very little else about it that’s desirable. Your entire job is to show up places and tell people to stop doing things they want or feel that they need to be doing, and often that they’re willing to physically attack you for interfering with. The pay is also pretty mediocre overall. So if you want overall pleasant interpersonal interactions or a decent wage, you’d have to go elsewhere. If all you want is power over other human beings, that job will be a great fit for you.

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and in the ways that’s it’s not customer service focused it’s so focused on flowsheets and tracking metrics that you have to constantly consciously remind yourself that the human in front of you isn’t just an object that you’re doing things to. It gets to a point that you’re wiping people’s genitals with the same efficiency as you’ll wipe down the bed when they’re done with it and some patients can tolerate that well enough but then every once in a while you get someone with sexual trauma. And that’s just one example.

ok but why is my husband this fucking funny:

entering the workforce as a young millennial I had a lot of older coworkers talk shit about the young kids wearing their unprofessionally fashionable jogger scrubs but they certainly don’t drag through spilled bodily fluids like flared ones do!

barnyard was such an underrated movie

you. you get me.

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and you’ve never had to wait in line a few extra times every DMV trip because they keep putting your name on the paperwork wrong even though you spell it out loud every time.

I’m also fascinated by this I’ve literally never heard it before and I’m here for the tea / popcorn. 🍿

I too am fascinated by this assertion.

Ubuntu was really good when I was a kid. when I went to school like 10 years ago I had to have a windows computer for a while to run my school’s proprietary virtual clinical lab software and I was too busy studying and going to irl clinicals to worry about getting a dual boot running. I tried to go back once a few semesters in but it seemed really bloated compared to the Ubuntu I grew up with and I did mint for a bit but that computer kicked the bucket iirc and I didn’t have the time to set up another dual boot. Hubs is thinking we’re gonna have to switch soon and I’ve honestly been ready for a bit and think I’ll probably try mint again, but distrowatch says a lot of people are super into cachy so I was considering that. Will Probably still try mint first.

5pm. But you know what? I go to bed way earlier than all those fuckers.

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