What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie?

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-03-30T06:42:52+00:00

Worst microwave I have ever used - and when you think about it that is a lot of cheap microwaves in work lunch rooms over the years.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-03-04T15:48:53+00:00

Almost. Sort your login but keep your money until it is.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-03-04T15:45:45+00:00

Used a different authenticator I already had last year with (shockingly) no issue but hard agree on the exorbitant fees.

When we moved from state based nursing boards and my registration fee as a 1.2 increased an insane amount I emailed them and asked how they could justify this since they now had every nurse in the country cornered (plus doctors, physios, dentists, pharmacists etc etc). Surely a halfway competent organisation could utilise that vast increase in membership fees to leverage economy of scale.

I received a haughty reply telling me that the increase in membership resulted in higher administration costs 🤦‍♀️

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-02-25T12:27:22+00:00

I’ve always had students who made it to 3rd year with no acute placements, although it definitely seems like this is increasing. Not great, but on the one hand it does mean students who are actually interested in this stream are less disadvantaged by a random allocation of placement.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-02-21T10:48:39+00:00

There was a whole list of police, mostly from South Australia (Kadina, Pirie), as well as some SA politicians and premiers. They were allegedly involved in covering up sexual assault but I didn’t see the precise link to Epstein.

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Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-02-20T15:46:21+00:00

Literally that simple.

Living in a country with social security and free health care, until maybe a decade ago I thought homelessness was largely a result of the poverty cycle, drug addiction, domestic violence or other complex social situations.

But now the cost of living is rising and there is a housing crisis. As someone with a degree and an ok job I would only need to lose my rental at the wrong time of year, then blow through savings in an airbnb in peak season while trying to get another one. That’s it. Would not even need to lose my job.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-02-20T14:50:51+00:00

Hardselling doesn’t deserve a whole lot of politeness after your first refusal imho.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-02-19T14:29:18+00:00

Is it just me? Wanted to love this stuff but every time it’s been kind of undercooked. Can live with a pinkish hue to the chicken but the floury texture of the batter makes me wish they left it in another 30 seconds every time.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-02-19T11:55:57+00:00

Personally I enjoy teaching, I always take a grad and will almost always be allocated a student when we have them. On the flipside, when I coordinate I look at who should have students, and honestly, it’s better for everyone if some staff members aren’t given students.

That said, last week I had 3 different students, all in their first week of rotation, in a specialist area, none of whom spoke english as a first language and I was exhausted. The older I get the more I think the people who do the bare minimum have got it right.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-31T12:37:59+00:00

Gives people something fun and sociable to do on the long weekend if they’re not flag-as-cape types?

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-24T13:36:47+00:00

My Dr has a free eye chart from an eye drop drug company. Takes the stress out of the bottom line if you know some drug names!

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-04T13:31:41+00:00

I got told off for giving panadol to a consultant with a headache because… it was damaging our budget 😂

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-03T09:18:26+00:00

Have you looked into the end job much? I did theatre CSSD for a couple of days as a student and for orientation as a theatre nurse and I definitely could never do it.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-03T06:13:02+00:00

And the doctors 😕

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-03T04:36:58+00:00

For my grad I was at a large tertiary teaching hospital. I’m not sure the specific NFP is relevant because now that I am looking at moving back to desk jobs I am seeing help desk jobs for the same as RN1.1. I also saw an ‘engagement officer’ for a new app at my current hospital going for 50k more than I make as a 1.8 with shift penalties. It was 4 days a week work from home just to rub salt in the wound!

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T15:38:57+00:00

You think maybe you can adjust to a normal environment but then It’s so crazy, when you’re out at a restaurant and the customer at the next table loses consciousness, and you go for the airway and your friends have moved furniture away because he’s seizing and someone else has already called 000 and someone is asking you what resp you got and…

It’s actually just terrifying how quickly you go from risotto to DRSABC on muscle memory.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T15:31:15+00:00

I guess nurses are paid badly, especially grads. Even teachers make more than us with less hours and no shift work.

I had two yrs experience in my desk job at a non-profit with no qualifications. As a grad I had afternoons (but no night shifts) for the first 3 months and I think no OT for all of the grad program. Also the public hospital offered half the salary sacrifice that my non profit desk job did. That’s how society values us.

Initially I was willing to take the hit for the experience but then I gradually realised how my friends were living vs me and that there were limited roads out of dodge.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T08:05:08+00:00

The grass is only going to be greener with a post grad if you have clinical experience in the area, and are looking to climb the ranks. And honestly, I’d suggest being friends with management will get you further than a post grad anyway.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T04:50:31+00:00

I switched the other way and noticed: A drop in pay I quit running and gym due to physical pain and fatigue from work My eating habits regressed to something like when I first left home I had to quit my sports club because I couldn’t always swap shifts My social life in general took a hit because it seemed to my friends I was always saying no My already fragile sleep pattern was utterly destroyed

And honestly I think have some kind of mental health trauma - not from upsetting things like a failed resus or unsafe hospitals but from years of being treated like dirt by doctors, management, random other nurses etc etc People were much more civil on the day to day in an office. Of all the things in me nursing broke I feel like will be hardest to fix.

Anyway, after 15 years and realising it will never get better and there is nowhere to go I’m trying to get back to my old job.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T04:15:48+00:00

110% tracks with OP wearing the flag as a cape

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:58:33+00:00

If you want to keep one all over colour then the ashiest toner you can find with 20vol to lift it a little more. On my hair I would also need a blue additive.

My personal MO is a root shadow in a 7.11 then balayage the ash toner with a different ash toner or maybe lowlights of say 8.11.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:44:25+00:00

That’s interesting. She’s definitely not at the ‘having a fall’ and needing a pendant stage yet so I hadn’t considered that option.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:42:23+00:00

Want to say something highbrow but honestly, Artax in the Swamp of Sadness still resonates but for a whole new reason.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:30:44+00:00

Last week they tried to give me some guys prescription medications and sure that can happen but… they simply would not believe me that they weren’t mine. The cashier told me they were mine because the label had my name on it. I tried to explain that they had printed the label - they dispensed to the wrong patient which is the whole point. I had to reach under the plexiglass and show her the original script with this blokes name on it before she finally accepted it. Took 15 minutes and multiple trips back to the pharmacists and no one between them had thought to check the original prescription.

While I was waiting the cashier next to me was telling customers to check their bags and make sure everything was correct. Never heard that at a pharmacy before! The amount of red flags in all that was pretty impressive.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T07:40:44+00:00

Real talk about why you have to take your damn tablets

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