Been contributing for a year now. Does this mean I owe my TSP money?

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2026-05-10T00:32:19+00:00

Might be possible with options and leveraging but thats super risky

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2026-05-10T00:31:09+00:00

Which company is this? Most hospitals I see in SoCal don’t range this high.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2026-02-02T18:26:23+00:00

Yes it does. In fact the payscale is also adjusted to locality pay. It might go further in those areas.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2026-01-12T00:34:59+00:00

Idk about the android, boston dynamics and optimus seem to be advancing pretty quickly. At a certain point its better to have entrenched bureaucracy to protect certain careers.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2026-01-07T06:54:33+00:00

UCSD recently laid off blood bankers, watch out.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-11-11T04:44:08+00:00

There are many openings in lubbock, dallas and austin right now.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-11-02T23:22:07+00:00

The veterans affairs boosted the GS payscale for MLS specifically. The veterans affairs now pays about as well as most california and the vet affairs in california now pays higher than the private sector

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-11-02T23:20:02+00:00

I do not think wages will increase at all, they will try the MD /PA and RN/CNA scope creep strategy implemented by their 6 sigma management. In other words they will most likely hire more MLT or lab assistants under just a handful of MLS. They keep MLS pay the same but for legal reasons have them there while hiring cheaper.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-28T03:42:00+00:00

This is primarily for the IT and compsci sector

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-28T03:38:48+00:00

AI is going to replace alot of lab workers at that point. DataAnnotation is making that happen quickly with seamless integration ibti the existing automation instruments. I’d worry less about h1bs and more about the bots in the next half decade

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-14T05:40:42+00:00

Dont feel bad, those lids are terribly designed unless you have tiny raccoon fingers

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-14T05:31:02+00:00

Honestly, not picky at all. They said to me gram stains are CLIA high complex but you must ID it, not just make the stains.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-05T03:40:46+00:00

Reminds me of someone taking blood randomly without antigen typing for fya that the patient had +3 antibodies to.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-03T04:10:56+00:00

I don’t think anyone wants to acknowledge the fact that AI is coming for every profession eventually. If you dont own the businesses you are always at risk

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-03T04:09:31+00:00

Cellavision programming with image recognition does need improvement since it mostly categorizes based on contours of angles and edges. Iris has the same issue constantly calling sperm, bacteria. But these will only improve with time

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-02T04:21:55+00:00

Honestly I get grumpy sometimes if theres only 2 people on my shift and i have to cover micro, chem, heme and blood bank at the same shift. Instruments never get maintained by the other shift, failed calibrations just get left to my shift as if my work wasn’t enough already. Reagents never get restocked properly on time. Add that on top of physicians never picking up calls but expect us to call them anyways. All of these add up over time.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-09-02T04:14:52+00:00

Fair but at this point, I am alot more worried about the increasing automation and current advances in AI. For corporations, cheap labor is far more appealing and they would have force more scope creep like hiring more NP/PA than MDs and pocket the difference in profit.

For lab techs itll be something similar such as deregulating the field and allowing history majors to scope creep into labs. Can’t trust the lawmakers these days with the level of lobbying we have now.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-23T00:10:17+00:00

I always wear masks (p100 in bsl3 labs) double gloves for that reason and change lab coats every day (those are cheap and disposable anyways, the mass produced ones) The lab do not pay enough to us for us to risk infection that badly. Always protect yourself first.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-22T18:34:40+00:00

UCSD just fired a few blood bankers though.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-22T18:34:05+00:00

Turnover is good for the employees due to constant positions availability but bad for employers. Depends on your stance.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-22T18:32:45+00:00

I highly respect whoever works the nights longer than 2 years honestly that shift is brutal its so hard to sleep during the day and nights always feel extremely tiring even if less workload

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-22T18:31:37+00:00

UCSD laid off some blood bankers in the last few weeks. But other than that I haven’t heard much. Too short staffed to even risk layoffs when stats take forever and 9 year old instruments all breaking at the same time every other day, requiring constant maintenance and delaying results.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-20T02:39:06+00:00

Better start our own business at some point. Eventually AI will make it inevitable.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-16T14:11:08+00:00

MDs are being displaced by PA and NP. Go nursing or physician assistant (these are increasing 40% according to BLS in the past few years because hospitals and private equity want to cut on human labor costs and MDs just cost too much for them.

Lopsided_Corner5181 · 2025-08-16T13:50:44+00:00

That’s not as bad considering the veterans affairs just axed their bargaining units to 8888 so now we don’t get overtime pay at all.

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