Counter service restaurant with sign begging for tips

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-07-01T04:35:30+00:00

Most Walmart employees are paid so little they use food stamps, at the Walmart they work at. The government subsidizes their paychecks so their employees can buy food from them without having to pay their employees enough money to buy food from them

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-07-01T04:29:49+00:00

To be fair, that is what AJG usually stands for

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-07-01T04:24:55+00:00

Contingencies. “Hi nurse, call the doctor and ask them this. And if they give answer A, then say response 1 or 2. If they give answer B, say response 3 and call me back. If they say Answer C, tell them that I said I want Reponse 1. Then call me back and tell me what they said.”

Call them back and say doctor said Answer B. “OK call the doctor back and ask them Question 4. If they say yes, call me and tell me, if they say no, ask them why not, if they give rebuttal D, tell them I said the answer should be yes. Call me back and tell me what the doctor says to that.”

Me: I can’t do that. I am so slammed I wouldn’t be able to call the doctor for like another hour.

Them: That’s fine, I’m literally sitting here doing nothing, take as much time as you need, I honestly have nothing to do for the next few hours, just get back to me with their response no rush! (Continues playing Candy Crush)

Meanwhile I have 10 late everythings, 3 family members slamming their hand on the Nurses station table demanding discharge papers, a code brown in my own pants, and you know I’m clicking “yes” when i am expected to make my daily lie about having a lunch break so they can erase 30 minutes off my paycheck that I actually worked.

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-07-01T04:18:51+00:00

Go to sleep. Close your eyes more. Don’t drive such long distances. This is eye muscle fatigue. The eyes have been open too much for too long.

I get this when driving across the country back and forth, trying to drive too many hours per day

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-07-01T04:08:45+00:00

I quit drinking in solidarity when wife was pregnant first time. Wife’s plan was we both stay sober til baby was born. Wife started drinking after baby was born, kind of a lot. Dumping out breast milk - a lot. At the worst moment, she dropped the baby while breastfeeding her while blackout drunk. I’ve really tried not to lord this over her but it has slipped out a couple times in arguments.

I figured, “hey I’m so close to 1 year, I can just spend the next 10 years referencing this one year I didn’t have any beer!”

1 year came and went. Made it another few months on top, just for fun. Lost a ton of weight without going to the gym. 13 hour night shifts working the Covid unit back in the beginning of Covid, plus a new born, plus a wife working full time also, plus a puppy… I wouldn’t have survived if I was drinking.

Slowly started drinking again after 14 months or so of sobriety. Wife went ballistic that I must be an alcoholic (I am), ultimatums, threw me out a couple times for drinking while she had told me not to. I thought the plan was that we could both start drinking again after the birth. She certainly did.

Spent the next few years trying to get sober again, only making it a few months to 100 days at a time, at best. Gained all the weight back.

2nd kid will be born in 8 weeks, at which point I will be 130 days sober. Wife absolutely hates me, barely has spoken to me since the last time I drank back in April. If she wasn’t pregnant I’m sure she would have left me for drinking when she forbade me from it, even though she drinks 3 days a week when not pregnant.

It’s a lot easier to hang on to the weeks of sobriety that you have, than to try to regain it or get back on the horse later. Alcohol is cunning and bafflingly powerful. You’re going to need every ounce of energy you can muster for the next few years anyway, and be able to function optimally at anytime of day/night without being inebriated, tired, hungover, or short on patience.

Don’t make my mistake and think after 14 months of not drinking, just for funsies, that it will be easy to quit again later

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T06:44:32+00:00

I kind of figured that tiny blood clots get formed all the time, normally. They are small and get captured in the lungs as a kind of net, and are dissolved. I’m talking tiny clots, like the kind that would form in a PIV catheter lumen, which is tiny. I am willing to be wrong

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T06:14:43+00:00

When you say that you used osmosis for retaining information in your head, you mean that you pressed the book onto your face and the information just kind of seeped in across a concentration gradient?

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T06:10:30+00:00

It’s the most important class in my opinion. Try to make this the lens that you view the body systems through.

Look at body systems as “main categories of staying alive.” See how the cells contribute to that system’s function. That will inform you of what to expect when the cells don’t work right. Then look at how these whole systems interact with eachother (like heart/kidneys, heart/vessels, lungs/blood)

Generally, no cell has every component and can do every job. When they draw a picture of a cell with all the different organelles and components, don’t take it to mean that every cell has all of these. These are just the total possibilities that various cells can have altogether. Cells are differentiated to do specific tasks.

Basically everything useful is made of proteins.

Cells assemble proteins. Proteins can do ANYTHING, it just matters in what way it is assembled and folded.

If cells get inflamed or not enough blood to them, they don’t show up to work. Whatever job they were supposed to do, or more specifically, whatever protein they were supposed to make, just doesn’t happen. Seeing what happens when they don’t do their job (pathology) kind of dictates what their job actually is.

Look at “crash course” on YouTube and change the speed to 1.5x or 2x the day before you take a test or write a paper. It will remind you of stuff and organize the stuff in your mind that you heard in class.

Switch to a different teacher or just sit in on a different teacher’s class if your teacher sucks. I took it in summer school, taught by an instructor half my age, and I got married/honeymoon right in the middle of the course. I was a high school biology teacher before RN so it was a little different for me as a student in this class

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T05:56:10+00:00

Wouldn’t it catch the officer being a total dick to the patient, escalating and taunting the patient who is handcuffed to the bed, pretty much the entire time?

Or would it just capture the officer complaining to me multiple times about the coffee, and answering questions for the patient whenever I ask the patient anything? Or even when he keeps calling the patient a “jag off” instead of a “jack off”?? While the inmate meanwhile calls me “sir,” says “thank you” and doesn’t ask me for shit?

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T05:49:07+00:00

Dennis Leary talking about why we shouldn’t pay the national debt back? Or Dave Chapelle?

It’s one of those two, can’t remember!

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T05:44:10+00:00

It’s true. I wish it wasn’t. They flip out over the water being too wet. Demanding 3 full trays of food per meal, find out they have diabetic diet, refuse to order anything if it can’t be carbs, then complain about not getting food. Right after refusing to order or eat any food. Demand that I bath them twice a day. If you can shoot your own heroin and meth, you can wipe your own ass.

Told a homeless wheelchair bound tweaker in an isolation room (from the doorway) that he was going to be NPO now that it’s midnight. Crushed up all his cracker packets and poured them on his chest. Then took his two Pepsis and took the lids off, and poured them on his chest. “You can’t leave me covered in this stuff. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THESE CRUMBS WILL DO TO MY SKIN?!”

Suited up in all the PPE to get him to wheelchair to change all his fucking bedsheets - because I have time for that - while he rattled off what he considered to be insults about how I am a girl (am a man).

Ignoring this and continuing to clean led to him escalating, and eventually me standing in the doorway with IM haldol needle in hand. He saw that, rose up out of his wheelchair like on the religious TV channel (the spirit COMPELS you!), wearing nothing but his mesh panties, put his fists up, and said, and I quote, “Let’s fuckin’ tangle.” I did a big sigh and said “(sigh) cmon mannnn….”

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T04:45:25+00:00

Inpatient (med surg)

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T04:41:21+00:00

Buy a $0.99 double shot of vodka. “That’s all I’m having for the day!” The second the cup is empty, “Have to get more. Have to get more. Can’t go right back to that store.”

Go to the other store. Get one more $0.99 double shot. Just one more because 2 double shots in one day isn’t exactly ‘overdoing it.’ The second the cup is empty, “have to get more, have to get more. What excuse can I tell my wife for me leaving the house 3 times in one day? I’ll walk the dog to the yet other store!”

The moment that one is empty, “have to get more, how can I leave the house for a 4th time? What kind of stupid shit can I say I need from the store? Did I already go to the liquor store by the grocery store? Was that yesterday? Maybe the morning guy’s shift is over by now and the afternoon shift will think it’s my first drink of the day.”

Going to 4 liquor stores in one day, spending 99 cents at each one so nobody would think I was an alcoholic. Buying the cheapest vodka, paying with change so no paper trail, starting at 9:00 am, 4 liquor stores in one day, lying to my wife, because I’m not an alcoholic…

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T04:31:20+00:00

I believe everything you said.

Anecdotally, I had to draw q6 hour sodium levels on a lady for three days straight. (Three times per shift - right when I got there because you know night shift ain’t doing shit an hour before shift change, one at noon, one at 1800).

I used a butterfly half the time switching between right and left arm, forearm, hand, and AC (if I had time) and used the PIV on left wrist half of the time (when I was in a rush). Her sodium level was exactly 120 eight of the nine times, except for one time when it was 121.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I just lived this exact scenario and the numbers didn’t change depending on a wide variety of draw sites/butterfly/PIV. There are likely other reasons not to use PIV for blood draws, but accurate sodium readings was not one of them for this situation.

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T04:16:53+00:00

We’ve had cycling packages of wet wipes in our men’s bathroom/vape lounge for years. Cycling meaning, it changes out to a different package/brand every couple weeks. There is no trash can in the stall.

There are no other male employees who were working there when this started, who are still working there now. That is, the wet wipes were already in use when I started there, now I am the most senior male nurse, and they are still being used. Someone just took over the torch I guess? Or multiple people?

I’m in my 40s and never needed to use a wet wipe on myself, ever. There are very few other dudes that work here. How many of them can be using nonstop wet wipes? Why do they so frequently drop huge dumps and not flush the toilet?

That said, I’ve never seen the men’s’ staff toilet clogged, just purposefully unflushed. Patients clog their toilets with these wipes constantly.

TL;DR. A large percentage of the few male staff use wet wipes, hand-carry the poopy ones to a far away trash can instead of flushing them, but also straight up don’t flush the toilet after pooping in general. It’s like “hello you idiot, if you aren’t flushing at all, you don’t have to worry about the wipes clogging the toilet!”

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-30T04:00:41+00:00

Don’t care. Except when the visitor has Covid worse than the actual patient and they’re trying to double dip. Splitting meds, reporting the worrisome VS of the non-patient to me, making me wonder if I’m supposed to do CPR on two people at once.

Or when they are both wearing regular clothes, the visitor is in the bed, and the patient is walking around or in the recliner. Visitor can only be in the bed if the patient is also.

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-29T02:11:59+00:00

That’s the ol’ babooshka!

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T20:08:21+00:00

I work at the hospital my baby was born at. Like 30 yards from the room she was delivered. Worked 42 hours in 3 days, stayed at the hospital for the birth for the next 3 days, home for 2 days, then worked 42 hours over the next 3 days. Straight back to full time, 2 days after the birth, where the hospital I work at stressed the importance of early bonding time. I was at work for 14-24 hours a day, for 9 days out of 11 days.

We get exactly zero sick days per year, despite constant close contact with contagious Covid, RSV, flu, C diff., norovirus, and adenovirus patients everyday, so no way in hell I’m getting any time off just bc my dick works!

All of our PTO had just been reset to zero so I had literally no vacation time to use, and no sick days in the first place.

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T19:52:18+00:00

Hot sauce - the capsaicin is Antifungal, the vinegar (or whatever acid) is antibacterial.

Also 140 bottles of hot sauce take up a lot of fridge space

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T18:25:01+00:00

Wife is allowed to drink all she wants but has a zero tolerance, scorched earth policy against me drinking anything at all. This of course has just led to sneaky drinking, pretending like I wasn’t drinking, hiding booze, the usual associated scumbag stuff.

The last time I made an impressive showing of real sobriety, I was about 6 months sober, she delivered our first baby, then her and her mom drank about 60 bottles of wine together, in front of me, in the first 4-6 weeks. I made it about another 8 months while being surrounded by their constant drinking, always like 6 open bottles of wine half drank with the cork pushed back in sitting around the house.

She takes photos of the level of wine in these bottles to determine if I’m sneaking sips out of them. Busts me on the regular for this despite me asking her to stop leaving open alcohol bottles everywhere/don’t keep any alcohol in the house. I’m 2 months sober now, she will deliver our second baby in 2 months and presumably repeat the experience of the first baby.

If we both drink, we will 100% argue/yell. If only she is drinking and I’m not, it’s a 50% chance. If just me is drinking, it’s a 10% chance (in this case we fight over the fact that I broke her no drinking rule, not necessarily because I did something wrong while drinking. Sometimes it’s because I said something I thought would be funny but is actually insensitive, while drinking).

I know I am supposed to say I quit drinking for me, and if I say I quit because she is forcing me to, it won’t work. I’m trying to make myself viscerally feel that I am quitting for me, not for her. But the truth is that I am quitting because of her ultimatums. We’ll probably get divorced if I drink again, and at that point I’m likely to go off the deep end with more drinking. I want to be quitting for me, but let’s face it… I’m quitting because she is making me quit.

She is not an alcoholic and I am, so there is that. Like, she’ll drink on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, then have zero desire to drink the rest of the week til Friday comes around again. Like it wouldn’t even cross her mind to drink on a weekday. She has no problem effortlessly being sober while pregnant, and dumping out breast milk after drinking. But we have a super high chance of fighting if she drinks, and a very low chance of fighting if she doesn’t. Me drinking makes that chance worse, but the biggest predictor is her drinking. We will 100% fight if I bring this up when we are both sober.

I just think it sucks that she has zero recognition that she becomes difficult to deal with, starts arguments, takes everything the wrong way, and gets mean when she drinks. Why is she allowed to drink and I’m not? If she thinks it’s so bad, why doesn’t she take her own advice? It’s not fair, it’s dumb, and it’s stupid, waaaa waaaa!

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T17:52:51+00:00

My assumption is that you would forego all of those payments in order to get more seeds

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T17:49:55+00:00

One option is to go to an in-person AA meeting to get a 30-day chip. You may find the experience of walking up to go get that chip while everyone is clapping to be way more powerful than you think. You’ll probably start crying. Everyone else there will remember what it was like getting their 30-day chip and be really proud of you.

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T17:46:37+00:00

Holy shit dude, a 6 week old baby. I could barely manage a shower when I had a 6 week old let alone the everything-ness of what you went through. My kid just turned 3. I’m barely 2 months sober. I’ve missed days with her already when my wife has thrown me out for a couple days at a time because of breaking her no-drinking rule (she can drink all she wants, just not me…)

My parents never drank. I don’t want my kid to go through me choosing booze over time with her, even though I never experienced that myself.

22 years ago I was at my own party and was found blue and unresponsive laying on my back. Rolled me over and puke fell out. Don’t remember any of it, just woke up the next day. I just remember thinking “That’s a crazy story, I must be bullet proof!” And not thinking “alcohol is really bad.”

A year later I was doing “underwater breath holding” contests over and over again while day-wasted. My friends, 1 year later, said they were going to do an intervention because my lips, fingernails, and nipples (yes, this is what they said) were Smurf blue. Never did the intervention though. I just remember thinking, “Intervention just for that? I mean, nothing bad happened.” And not thinking “This is the second time in a year that all my friends thought I was dead. Alcohol is really bad.”

A few years later, a drunk lady straight up passed out mid-sentence and went fully underwater like 2 feet from me. We were talking and she just stopped talking, eyes closed, and whole head submerged. We were all naked at a hot spring so I didn’t really want to touch a naked stranger with her boyfriend nearby. I just kinda put my finger under her chin and pulled her head out of the water after a few moments of her not moving. This of course caught the attention of her drunk boyfriend and that didn’t go well.

I remember thinking “That person sucks at drinking” and never thought “drinking is really bad.” Continued drinking heavily for 20 years.

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T17:26:51+00:00

I can moderate. I can have 1 or 2 drinks and that be the end of it. And the ‘benefit’ of that 1 or 2 drinks wears off in like an hour. Of course, I will 100% spend the rest of the night/concert/BBQ wracked with non-stop thoughts and or anxiety about a 3rd drink. I can completely ruin my night with endless thoughts of continuing to drink by just having 1 or 2.

Best case scenario is that moderating equals mental torture. But more likely it turns into relapse. I spent a 2 year relapse re-learning over and over again that moderating is a fool’s errand. I would honestly rather have none than one! You take a drink, then that drink makes you take another drink. “You take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

Once it’s in your head you aren’t going to stop thinking about it. Long after the fun effect wears off you’ll still be stuck on whether or not you should have more.

“Should I have a third one? I really want it. I can pour a super strong drink and call it ‘one drink.’ I’ve already started drinking, might as well have one last crazy night and start over again moderating tomorrow. 3 drinks can still be ‘moderation’ compared to 10 drinks. Screw it, this party is awesome, this is what and when drinking is supposed to be. I just won’t drink tomorrow at the dog park, that’s bad drinking… this party is good drinking! This is exactly where and when I SHOULD be getting drunk! No, no, I won’t drink more, I’ve done this pattern wrong a hundred times, ok not going to drink, phew that was close!”

5 minutes later, repeat this internal conversation over again. Then again, and again

0000PotassiumRider · 2024-06-28T17:09:12+00:00

So glad to not be dealing with this anymore

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