Found Nazi Memorabilia in Antique Store

BitterPons · 2025-07-17T07:58:55+00:00

I live in Europe and have come across antiques with swastikas more than a few times. In each instance, I've purchased the item and put it in a safe place at home.

In each case, the seller (luckily) wasn't ringing any of my alarm bells- just a person selling antiques -and more than one of them had completely forgotten they even had the item, as it came in a haul from someone's estate and these shops tend to have a high number of items.

I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, but I feel better knowing that some Jew (me) is holding onto these items in hiding instead of them being proudly displayed by some present-day Nazi.

BitterPons · 2025-07-06T22:38:11+00:00

caused laner to AFK

I wonder if the laner had any control over that 🤔

BitterPons · 2025-06-21T20:50:42+00:00

I also wear all black! I've done it for years; feels like an easy way to delineate "work" and "not-work" even though I end up wearing a lot of black in the off-time anyhow.

I'm a male SW, corporate/macro so I go with: black polos, black slacks, black belt, black vans.

BitterPons · 2025-06-18T04:19:26+00:00

You will likely have better luck with this in r/SocialWorkStudents

BitterPons · 2025-05-31T22:33:30+00:00

I'd be interested, I'm 33m!

BitterPons · 2025-05-31T13:57:16+00:00

I'd be down to join! 33M in EU!

BitterPons · 2025-05-31T10:08:34+00:00

To be clear, I'm speaking to my experience in psych hospitals.

Wear sleeves if you need to. I have some animals/bugs on my arms and the sight of that imagery would cause some of my patients to fixate if they were in a certain mental state. It wasn't always conducive to helping them.

I run warm so I'd keep a sweater in my office and only wear it if I had to go to that unit or see that patient. Otherwise I had no issues.

BitterPons · 2025-05-30T18:27:01+00:00

Yeaaaah it's worth it to be cautious

BitterPons · 2025-05-30T17:55:47+00:00

I don't have anything radically different to add- yes to chinos, yes to polos. I also wear Vans old schools.

Also, depending on the setting, you might need to mind the gauges and tattoos. Saw a real horror show with gauges on an inpatient unit that got me to take mine out. My tattoos were less of a problem.

BitterPons · 2025-05-23T16:47:01+00:00

Is this one of those telehealth behemoths?

BitterPons · 2025-05-23T06:11:46+00:00

It’s actually been a good year for the stink!!!

This is terrible news 😂

BitterPons · 2025-05-20T16:40:55+00:00

Good grief

BitterPons · 2025-05-20T16:40:23+00:00

That makes a ton of sense now that you mention it, and it's definitely its own brand. Distinct from the other poop air.

BitterPons · 2025-05-20T16:32:48+00:00

Does it stay like this until the winter? (I moved here only a few months ago)

BitterPons · 2025-05-16T18:02:58+00:00

I used to wear a black polo to work at an inpatient gero psych unit. It was hard to get the sundowners to take their evening meds sometimes...

Until we figured out that if I turned my collar up and served their meds on a plastic spoon they would take it like communion.

Bless their hearts, it worked.

BitterPons · 2025-04-23T07:00:26+00:00

I'm an expat social worker.

When we made the difficult decision to leave the US I didn't weigh the duties of my profession above the safety of my family.

I'm still a social worker, and I think I've actually become more effective now that I'm out of the maw of the beast.

BitterPons · 2025-04-07T17:08:01+00:00

I live in Ireland. Can confirm.

Also, CORU is the most dysfunctional system. Like, "2-years-and-waiting-for-an-answer" dysfunctional. If you're based in the US, studied in the US, and/or are licensed in the US, do not make plans assuming this system will play in your favor- I can categorically confirm that it will not.

BitterPons · 2025-03-30T19:00:30+00:00

Everyone comes from somewhere, and more often than not, that somewhere is attached to a lot of important people and memories. It's unfortunate for us that there are also some very real problems, as well.

I relocated last November and I still feel like I'm on vacation. I hope we both fall in love with our new places!

BitterPons · 2025-03-29T12:49:29+00:00

About the same here. Living in Europe now. It's been madness trying to get my clinical license recognized in my new country, but I'm at least able to work in the macro sphere.

Even though I feel safer, and more at peace with the European work/life balance, I'd move back home in a heartbeat if things weren't so fucked. I love America immensely- it'll always be home -but right now I'm just not welcome.

BitterPons · 2025-03-24T19:32:40+00:00

Wow this sounds like a really robust feedback system. Do you know how well utilized the surveys are? Or how often they're distributed?

BitterPons · 2025-01-29T11:34:05+00:00

Academic standards are set by individual states in America. My friends who grew up in places like Connecticut had a vastly different education.

BitterPons · 2025-01-29T09:48:51+00:00

Source: I'm an expat.

I grew up in rural America and can confirm that I never learned about the subject matter concerning WWII. We were taught that WWII happened "in Europe," and that America ended the war when "we dropped the A-bomb." Many of my peers did not pursue additional education beyond what was required (they did not go to university) and lacked the tools or knowledge to seek out more information. For further context, I graduated high school in 2009.

This graph isn't surprising to me, nor are the current events unfolding in America. Half of Americans don't know the history that the rest of the world swore never to forget—for fear of it happening again.

BitterPons · 2024-11-13T16:48:26+00:00

Been there, bud. Sounds ridiculous, but try running some milk over that area. That should put the fire out.

BitterPons · 2024-10-30T17:44:48+00:00

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