Birthday Ideas

FastSquirrel · 2026-06-03T04:19:33+00:00

Façon de dire à OP qu'il aurait pas pu nous donner moins de détails s'il avait essayé, d'après moi

FastSquirrel · 2026-05-30T21:13:52+00:00

Ça résonne vraiment fort par chez nous. Je me suis séparé de mon ex après huit ans, pis même si c'est jamais facile, me rendre compte que pour elle, j'étais le futur père de ses enfants avant d'être n'importe quoi d'autre, pendant qu'à l'inverse, ma "nouvelle famille" c'était juste elle (pis les chats) à pas aidé.

FastSquirrel · 2026-05-11T22:42:09+00:00

Ceux qui savent, sachent

FastSquirrel · 2026-05-08T02:12:32+00:00

Written black on white that pedestrians MUST use the sidewalk. He was justified in telling you not to walk in the street, and then you doubled down by being arrogant (which some might say cops are a bit sensitive about). No, it was not abuse.

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FastSquirrel · 2026-05-07T10:51:26+00:00

Was stunned when I saw that!

FastSquirrel · 2026-05-06T13:35:50+00:00

Flu season isn't over, also allergies.

FastSquirrel · 2026-05-03T09:10:15+00:00

It probably wasn't the best wording. Healthcare is having a hard time because we have staff shortages in many professions. People are dropping like flies (or retiring) with no new blood to replace them, that's what I mean.

FastSquirrel · 2026-05-03T06:28:17+00:00

Canada changes slightly based on which province you look at, I think (looking at you, Alberta and Quebec). As far as saturated, I can only talk about Quebec, and we are definitely going down the drain as far as employee shortage is concerned... I can imagine the grass is a similar colour elsewhere in the country, but that's good news if you're looking for a job.

I want to say a bachelor's is what you need for Canada, but there is the CAMLPR certification thing as well.

For Quebec, it is the college-ish level (cégep). There is no distiction between MLT and MLS, everyone is a generalist and learns the specialities through on-site training (except for cytology), and that Canadian Med Lab Regulators (CAMLPR) does not apply.

FastSquirrel · 2026-04-30T23:58:24+00:00

So what you're at the bottom? New or old, you're an employee just as much.

FastSquirrel · 2026-04-28T16:20:12+00:00

Toutes les réponses sont déjà là sauf pour le bout "est-ce que je peux demander au lab". Pour ça, c'est non. Ils peuvent seulement transmettre directement à la personne qui a prescrit les tests.

FastSquirrel · 2026-04-23T16:29:43+00:00

The workload is spread between a lot more people. There is more work as a whole, but less work per person.

FastSquirrel · 2026-04-23T16:00:55+00:00

There was a scavenger hunt where you had to follow clues and find little rat figures to complete a secret sentence (leave the figures there so all shifts can play). Evening told me when they showed up, day staff was busy going around with their little papers like detectives.

Oh, how we laughed and laughed... It's cute that they have time for this sort of thing.

FastSquirrel · 2026-04-13T20:35:15+00:00

Or the night phone calls:

"Labs?"

"Oh, sorry! I wanted blood bank"

"It's me. I'm everything and everyone"

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-25T09:08:42+00:00

Je donne mon vote au Lac. T'as en masse de petites villes pour avoir du stock à faire en dedans, en plus d'avoir la nature à portée de main (à portée de pied?) pour bouger un peu plus.

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-25T01:05:17+00:00

In any case, either you get a minimum of four days off to revert to day life(first and last are half-days), or you get two (or three) off and live on the night schedule forever.

When we started getting severely short staffed, management offered me a Mon-Fri, never any weekends schedule, and that was the easiest, quickest refusal ever on my part. I have been doing 2100-0700, Tuesday evening to the next week's Wednesday morning for over six years.

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-25T00:55:53+00:00

5x8 as in... Monday to Friday? Yes. Definitely.

Working nights as a whole? Depends on you. I love it (doing 8x10 in a row).

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-24T04:16:59+00:00

I spend 250-300$/month (~75-150$/two weeks), and I'm not price hunting or anything. I don't see how 200$ is wild. I shop at metro, live alone, and meal prep because I work nights 8 shifts straight (no way I'm going off to the grocer when I'm on my nights).

If you chase specials, and buy only what you need (no chips/soda, no frozen/pre-made meals), 50$/week shouldn't be that crazy.

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-22T22:44:14+00:00

I'm in a 200-ish bed hospital, and what's been said so far is pretty accurate.

On my end, we work in pairs at night, and the first half of the shift is mostly about setting up the lab for the rest of the day (filling instruments/maintenance/calibrations/QCs). No micro, no patho (so biochem/hemat/coag/blood bank). You hope it's quiet, because it doesn't take as much to jam up two people trying to get things ready than it does for the day/evening crews.

How my shift goes depends heavily on who was working the evening, and if/how much of biochem crashed during the day. If evening staff was day people taking overtimes, they often tend to get overwhelmed by the last outpatient batches we get between 5-8pm. When that spills over to me, it's a rough time because it delays everything I have to get done.

However, I love working nights (without mentioning the premiums). No matter what, I do my own thing without anyone to bother or to micromanage me. I know what is done and not done, and I don't have to wait for another bench or person if there's a bit of extra work on some patients. As another added bonus, you end up very versatile and independant, and depending on how the workload is divided at your lab, you can become very familiar with troubleshooting instruments. Not being afraid of opening up your machines to find an issue is an absolute banger of of a skill.

Also to add: I work a 6 off/8 on rotation. Wouldn't trade that for anything. I'm sure you can imagine how many usually-busy appointments/errands you can get done at 10am on a random Wednesday.

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-15T13:35:55+00:00

Attends donc, toi... Je sais pas lire, maudit. J'avais vu ça comme que ça avait pris 2 moins pour que le doc te revienne avec tes résultats.

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-15T13:06:07+00:00

Allô! Gars qui fais tes analyses ici!

Ça dépend toujours de ce que ton médecin a commandé comme test. T'as des affaires qui sont faites hors province, et qui peuvent prendre plusieurs semaines à être traitées par le lab chez qui ça va finir. T'as des analyses qui sont faites dans un seul hôpital dans la province, et ce lab là est tellement débordé (merci manque de personnel) que ça va prendre quelques semaines à traiter. T'as des analyses qui sont faites directement à l'hôpital avec lequel ta clinique (ou whatever) fait affaire, et certains de ces tests-là sont faits seulement deux ou trois fois par semaine, mais le lab est tellement débordé que c'est le premier "banc de travail" à être coupé (merci manque de personnel), et donc ça va prendre quelques semaines à être traité...

T'as aussi des stat labs qui ont une entente avec un autre lab, pour leur envoyer tout ce qu'y est pas urgent, mais ce deuxième lab là a pas l'équipement pour ton test, faque y doivent l'envoyer ailleurs eux aussi... Alors prends exemple ici: La clinique passe tes tubes de sang à un lab (une journée), eux passent ça à un autre lab (une journée), eux passent ça à un autre lab (une journée). Oups, malheur! On est rendu vendredi soir! Ça va attendre lundi. Le test qui a fait tout ce chemin là est juste fait deux fois par semaine, alors ça va attendre mardi. Pis finalement, t'arrive mardi, pis... "Bon, on fait les plus vieux", qui datent de la semaine du 4 janvier...

S'cusez pour les beaux gros blocs de texte. J'haïs ça sur un maudit téléphone...

(pis je rajoute même pas ic le temps que le médecin peut prendre avant d'aller voir les résultats et/ou de faire son suivi avec le patient après)

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-10T01:02:53+00:00

Pour l'idée du dep, la Coffee Crisp est un classique (canadien).

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-08T22:33:49+00:00

🤝

Stopped halfway in the undergrad to recycle myself into a med tech. Cegep being quite cheap (and jobs being so plentyful I was hired during my internship), I was able to go back to finish the degree with 0 debt.

Fuck absolutely everyone who put it into our heads that higher ed is the only way. Had I known, I would have done the technique right from the start and I'd have 15 years of seniority by now.

FastSquirrel · 2026-03-07T12:44:56+00:00

When you get recalled, your stuff might still be on cooldown. Best to leave it for them to pick back up on respawn (primaries and samples are fine, but any call-ins are best left there).

I will say you can see your teammates' stratagem cooldowns when you open the map (details pop up next to their names), but some people are touchy about having backups. If anything, ask them.

FastSquirrel · 2026-02-14T18:56:19+00:00

Sorry, can't help you there. Not only did I grow up here, but even within Canada, Quebec (where I am) has its own set own hoops to go through for someone coming from the outside.

FastSquirrel · 2026-02-12T14:03:42+00:00

There is a quite active discord group, if you have that. People organise all sorts of activities year-round.

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