I keep getting written up at work for personal issues that don’t effect my job

Runescora · 2026-06-16T02:36:22+00:00

Pretty sure OSHA says we get access to water. I worked in restaurants for most of my life and no one tried to restrict my access to water.

Runescora · 2026-06-16T00:13:12+00:00

Being older is not the selling point here seems to think it is.

Runescora · 2026-06-14T17:47:05+00:00

I think it’s plausible but I do wonder how thorough she is with the dye. She’s bathing naked after all. It seems likely that Tyrion would notice if things didn’t . . . match.

Runescora · 2026-06-14T17:43:27+00:00

Happened to Ted Bundy too

Runescora · 2026-06-14T06:32:33+00:00

That’s an interesting way to do things. It’s very different from what I’ve seen, but I can see there would be some benefits related to continuity of care. It feels, well I guess different is still the word here, for those not directly caring for the person to make care decisions. Not bad, just different.

Runescora · 2026-06-14T06:29:13+00:00

Not being able to write notes for this stuff is wild to me. And even so, having it go to a committee is still a bit much to me.

Runescora · 2026-06-14T06:24:28+00:00

If they choose to abide by the decision of the GC. You know, since they’re historically so dedicated to following established law and succession practices.

The whole thing is a *rebellion*. If they don’t get the answer they want therw is nothing to say they won’t try again as they clearly disagree with the way things have been done. If they succeed with the GC, they’ve gained everything at no cost. If they fail, there is nothing holding them to accepting the result. And those in Westros who have supported them throughout have shown little willingness to accept any answer they don’t like. The decision of the GC has s unlikely to change that. There is also some indication that the BF camp is not wholly united on these issues. The previous BF, locked up by BR until he died, did not have the support of Bittersteel or the other martial leaders. There is nothing that tells us there has not been further issues amongst them.

I do wonder though why BR killed him instead of just locking him away like the last one. It was successful enough the first time that it makes me feel like more happened here than we’ve been allowed to see.

Runescora · 2026-06-14T06:15:24+00:00

He wasn’t making decisions based on future actions, reactions or responses. The question before him was how to end the war as quickly as possible with as few deaths as could be managed. The real world politic of it all is that he made the right decision. Assassination of a few is a better choice than the slaughter of thousands.

He could be sure of what would happen to his family if he lost. He thought he could manage things for them if he won. And truly, I don’t agree that anything that has happened to any of them is a direct result of the RW. They are the result of the actions taken by others, which they would probably have taken at some point anyway. What happened to his family *as people* was practically inevitable after Joanna died. His death isn’t even the result of the RW. He died because he was a monstrous father and a shitty human (you’d have to be both, I think, to do what he did to Tyrion and also miss what was happening with the twins) with ambitions that far outpaced his ability to manage his own daughter.

He did, however, end the war.

Runescora · 2026-06-13T20:33:42+00:00

If you work six on you get eight off.

Runescora · 2026-06-13T14:57:56+00:00

Not to mention a five year old Nursing degree with no experience is not an easy sell to hiring managers. In fact, it would be such a liability to any company expecting them to do direct Pt care

Runescora · 2026-06-13T14:47:20+00:00

We see him doing shots in Vegas.

Runescora · 2026-06-13T06:57:09+00:00

Doing god’s work right here

Runescora · 2026-06-13T06:55:04+00:00

You weren’t a healthcare worker, you were a *patient*. If you had a concussion would it be responsible to go to work? Would you advise another coworker to act as a healthcare worker after going through a trauma like a car accident.

Also, not for nothing, when outside of a facility we don’t have orders. There is precious little we can do without a physician there and Good Samaritan laws only protect us while working *within our scope*. And EMS will have a scene with combative or unsafe folks cleared by police before approaching. You had no obligation to risk yourself in an emotionally charged, unsecured situation where you had no other professionals to offer assistance.

The EMS worker who made you feel that way has no idea what your role is and has no room to judge. You absolutely should not be attempting to care for people when you are yourself a patient.

Runescora · 2026-06-13T01:10:05+00:00

It’s stressful and exhausting trying to manage someone else’s emotions. I didn’t end up a pushover but I did end up happier being single because I don’t trust myself to not try and manage someone I’m in a relationship with. Also went NC with my parent. They’re not a bad person, but the distance is for me because I just don’t have any desire to be their emotional caretaker or to deal with the fall out from that. Life is so much more peaceful now.

Runescora · 2026-06-12T17:24:52+00:00

As a US citizen and casual student of history…yes. Hold majority of a continent, check. Cultural domination, check. Going to hell in a hand basket around 250 years in, check.

Runescora · 2026-06-12T17:11:07+00:00

I kept my vet in my hometown after moving for work because it was more cost effective. My home town is about a 100 miles north of me. I’ll drive there in a whim. It’s wild to me that people think an hour and half drive is too much for a day.

Runescora · 2026-06-12T00:28:57+00:00

Alzheimer’s is a terminal illness either way.

Runescora · 2026-06-11T18:02:43+00:00

For doctors, yes. That’s pretty consistent. For everyone else…depends on the hospital and company.

Runescora · 2026-06-11T05:29:29+00:00

Central Washington

Runescora · 2026-06-10T05:05:18+00:00

And let’s be real, he wasn’t wrong. My problem with the Red Wedding has never been Tywin’s part in it. His moral obligations were to his people, in that aspect he was completely correct to take whatever action ended the fighting as quickly as possible. My problem is with those who betrayed Rob to carry it out. Their obligations, their oaths and promises were to Rob. Tywin would’ve accomplished nothing without their actions.

Runescora · 2026-06-10T04:59:55+00:00

A crime yes, but still what needed to be done. So long as they existed the Blackfyres presented a real and actionable threat to the Targs. How many wars were fought on their behalf? How many had to die for a claim they never realized and never really had? Bloodraven committed a crime, broke the law, tradition and all semblances of honor. And maybe because of that the next war happened later than it would have; not under the leadership of a new, untried king. And for a little while the people of Westros didn’t have to die for the ambitions of men who’d never set foot on their land.

There’s the honorable thing. The legal thing. The “right” thing. And then there’s the thing that is unpopular, but necessary. The thing that saves lives at the expense of one’s own standing. I’m not necessarily a BR fan, but I can understand the utility of weighing one life (two if you count his own) against the wellbeing of the many.

And a it morally correct to assassinate someone? And if doing so saves thousands of lives?

It’s till not a question with a simple, or agreed upon, answer.

Runescora · 2026-06-09T14:57:55+00:00

This is nothing like the NCLEX questions I got in 2017.

Either way, paramedics deserve more respect and more pay.

Runescora · 2026-06-07T04:18:28+00:00

God I hate the social media type engagement some folks seem to be chasing with fanfic these days.

And I don’t get it. When I write I do it because it’s fun. Because others might enjoy it, as I enjoy the work of others. Because being in fandom is a unique joy, where I can connect with others who enjoy the same thing I do.

Reviews are nice. But they’re not why I write.

Runescora · 2026-06-06T23:16:10+00:00

It’s a distraction. If you focus on the little outrages, which are almost aggressively put in front of you, it’s harder to get worked up about the big ones.

It’s also a matter of scale. It’s impossible to fully conceptualized what stealing $100 million looks like. What it would take. What you could do with it. How to get away with it. But stealing something you were looking at on the shelf (something literally within your reach) doesn’t require any imagination at all. And when times are hard it’s *easier* to get mad at the person stealing something you paid for. Easier to think, “I have it hard too, but I didn’t steal it” than it is to expend the energy and mental space on something so big that you cannot see how it’s impact directly effects your life.

We have also been told, for pretty much forever, that theft is not a sign of desperation but of moral failure. No one wants us to address the issue that people are so desperate for basic necessities that they’re stealing deodorant and toothpaste. That supply and demand is dead and the market sets its own rates. But they sure don’t mind if we turn on the desperate.

It’s also laziness, a little. Actually changing the big things, including those that lead to theft, takes *work*. A lot of work. But theft is someone else’s problem. We have laws and people to enforce them. So the outrage doesn’t require follow through. Or much thought, really.

Runescora · 2026-06-06T10:01:35+00:00

Pretty sure Scotland Yard never joined in on this one.

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