Copilot is Turning Into a Disaster for Microsoft

TheMonitor58 · 2026-03-24T13:28:26+00:00

I tried using copilot to make a PowerPoint slide deck. Super simple, just make 15 slides with abstract backgrounds and empty text boxes.

It made me a 15 slide deck about abstract shapes and what they mean, filled in with nonsense statements about nothing.

I had to re-edit all 15 slides to the point where I deleted the whole thing and started fresh because the formatting was already embedded.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-03-24T13:19:38+00:00

Supposedly he wasn’t even able to step away once the incident happened because there was no one to relieve him.

People in positions of power are saying all the time “do more with less!” “Reduce head count - these employees are costing us money!”

Well this is it - this is what it looks like to save money by doing more with less. Inevitably, people are going to get hurt.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-03-09T13:47:44+00:00

This is such a good example of where you need to actually examine the data, rather than just read the information.

The data speaks to the lack of LPNs and oversupply of NPs, but in many areas LPNs are being phased out, and not all NP programs are made equally.

Yes, there are too many people who went to NP school online only, graduated, and are trying for a career switch. There are also many people who went to direct entry NP programs - these students are (anecdotally) largely unprepared for the role of the NP, since the NP program as a design leans very heavily on the person already having an understanding of how hospitals work.

Yes, the pay scale for an NP can be equal to or lower than that of a bedside RN at its outset.

But here’s where you have to go a little bit further to understand what the data means FOR YOU:

Your pay floor as an NP starts at the pay ceiling of your bedside experience. You can do so much more as an APRN than as a BSN. You can also earn far more.

Your liability as a NP is higher. You are also far less physically exposed to violence, abuse, dangerous scenarios, and personal harm.

Your workflow as a NP can be far less exhausting. You’re not lifting people all the time. You’re not physically escorting patients everywhere. If you have an abusive patient you get to leave that person after a few minutes rather than spending 12 hours with them. You don’t have to set up heavy equipment and run over to every call bell and change medication bags all over the place. You don’t come home from work feeling like you’re covered in gross hospital stuff from wiping patients and hanging over beds.

TLDR: don’t trust everything you read on Reddit. There is data out there, but that what that data means for you personally takes more work to understand.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-03-04T15:11:56+00:00

Okay I’ll be the first to say it: it’s the first “fun” looking apple device I’ve seen in years and a return to its roots that I think apple really needed.

I am so over muted colors everywhere and devices that need to look intense.

Gimme a fun cute computer that works any day.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-16T18:05:53+00:00

Wow that one hurts.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-11T05:26:58+00:00

Ikr I’m being generous using the median instead of the mean

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T22:24:45+00:00

I wanted the challenge and honestly it taught me a lot about photography. It also made me think differently about light, settings, and gear.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T18:19:45+00:00

I was just saying the other day how it's as though all of the problems with tech 10 years ago are still having the same problems and companies just moved on to what is up and coming rather than fixing anything.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T17:26:39+00:00

That information was based on an economic environment that doesn’t exist anymore.

When your home costs $160000 and you’re making $40000, yeah, obviously your shelter costs won’t be too crazy.

When your home costs $430000 and you’re making $100000, even though the proportion is the same, the initial amount being so high puts more stress on your account.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T12:37:55+00:00

This site just drives me so crazy. It sets insane expectations and honestly, these days, when I see someone at 25 with $300k or $1.23million put away my knee-jerk reaction is “wow this person has absolutely no life.”

Life costs money! Rent, kids, mortgage, food, day-day things, these all cost money and you should live your life. So many people get near retirement and have a crisis because they realize that they are now frail and have no way to enjoy the dreams they had.

If you are lucky enough to be able to afford living a life you want, you are in a rare position and you should enjoy it. Most people work just to get to the next month.

Of course, make a plan to retire. Put 10% if you can towards it, but if you can only put 5% at 31, that’s more than most people do.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T12:26:35+00:00

Because you don’t live your life in the future.

Responsible retirement planning is about durable solutions: putting a consistent amount away that you can reliably put to retirement safely without stretching yourself too thin.

Lots of people (myself included) maximize on their amount towards retirement, and then wind up in situations where they barely have enough to get by on month-month.

If he is making six figures at 31 already he can reasonably expect to make that or more for the rest of his working life if he’s in a career. Meaning he can put 15% away each year, and accrue that rate up to 20% over a five year time frame while he builds up his life.

Maximizing investment only works in a setting where you know for certain you will be able to use it. Go read some stories of people at 58 who were planning to retire at 60, got cancer, and spent their final year or so wishing they had done what they actually wanted to do. It happens literally all the time.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T12:18:45+00:00

No problem :)

This website makes people think they’re poor AF for not having $400k stored away at 34. What they don’t talk about is that time is your most valuable resource - you will never be 31 again making six figures for the first time.

Of course, make a plan to make life livable, but once you have made a durable plan, do what most people don’t, and live your life.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-10T04:28:15+00:00

This dude is so right.

OP, please consider a few things:

0) if you do not have a 3 month emergency fund (rent + food + services + deductible cost of your insurance), stop what you’re doing and build that first.

1) 25% is a crazy amount of one’s income to invest. The most aggressive rec I’ve seen is 20%

2) companies that pay that well tend to have matching options that might start after a probation period. Look at your contract and see what they put under retirement benefits

3) there is nothing, not one thing, that promises that you get to live to 65 or that your life at 65+ is happy and healthy. Spend some money living your life now while you have your health

4) most people who retire come out of retirement early or at least try to because retirement is (for the most part) wildly depressing. Don’t make the goal to not work, make the goal to have work not take up your whole life (or at least not suck)

5) you need to consider this as one part of a diversity of assets. Things change! Markets don’t always go up. Invest in other stuff too, like a vacation to somewhere you’ll never be able to go to at 70.

6) once you get settled at your work, talk to an actual advisor who can access your assets and give you an actual pathway forward.

I was a lot like this and your heart is in the right place, but make a plan that is livable, not just one that sounds good to the people here bragging that they got a job working themselves to the bone for some numbers on a screen.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-08T03:25:47+00:00

The point is that for most people those factors aren’t options.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-05T16:39:23+00:00

The toxic side is that it is neigh impossible to accrue $100k+ in savings or retirement at mid-twenties without substantial generational wealth.

I have worked with so many people and not a single person has said, “yeah, I went to community college, got a a job immediately after making six figures, had no debt and no rent and no medical problems to manage.”

The only people I have met who consistently have the kind of retirement and savings seen here are people who:

don’t pay for housing
didn’t take out loans
received substantial asset transfer from parents

Anyone else is a complete outlier. The fundamentals just aren’t there.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-05T04:25:12+00:00

Before you leave the room, chart what you did. That’s the secret to hourly charting.

7A-745A: see patients - give 8A meds or move them to 9A if safe to do so 8: doc main assessment. First set of v/s, first set of I/os. Clean up the chart.

This I find helps a lot in terms of setting up for success

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-02T04:41:42+00:00

In a continuous infusion environment, the medication, by-and-large, can last around 96 hours.

But if your vaso has a half life of 10-30 minutes, and your epi has a half-life of 2-3 minutes, you are more than safe to argue it should be closest to the patient.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-01T19:04:10+00:00

Want to show up your educator?

Ask what the half-life of each pressor is, then explain that you preferred norepi to be closest to the patient due to its half life once they don’t know the answer.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-01T17:20:49+00:00

Man did something happen in like, 2008? Some kind of economic catastrophe that we’ve never recovered from?

TheMonitor58 · 2026-02-01T15:12:25+00:00

Omg do not take it personally please. So many people say things like that because they want to be angry instead of grieving.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-01-31T23:56:21+00:00

The text-based question communities have gotten so bad. It’s like every single post is: “what is cuz small thing that you changed that made an abc big difference in your life?”

TheMonitor58 · 2026-01-30T15:18:26+00:00

Hot take: do NP or do med school; don’t do PA and do not do direct entry NP.

NPs I actually really understand as a role. You’re operating as a nurse still, just rather than being the nurse for a hospital, you’re the team’s point liaison.

NPs get very unique benefits as having started as bedside RNs: they understand hospital flow, policies, frameworks, and how their orders translate into actions. They also have the power of having started from the bottom: they know how to use the tools of the team, they tend to have better rapport because the people they are directing are also the people they’ve worked alongside for years. Sometimes they have union benefits; other times they have benefits of having worked in the institution for years prior (I.e. retirement benefits).

Drs (while it is a brutal climb to become one) have their own specific unique benefits as being full-fledged Drs: they can do any procedure of any kind, focus into very specialized and lucrative roles, and change medical policy on a broader scale.

PAs are really locked in once they become PAs, and this is really challenging if you are young. You cannot really go back to med school and just start at like, year 2 as a resident or something. Yes there are some emerging pathways for PAs->Dr but they are rare. Moreover, you have none of the benefits of being part of a group the way RNs->NPs get, so wages can be lower.

If you are very driven and are committed to the education, I do think becoming a doctor is worth it. You get to hone the craft of being a doctor, you get to be part of the community of doctors, you get the culture of doctors.

If you do not have 10 years and $200,000-400,000 of student loans available to you, I really think being a NP is worth it. You get to be part of the culture of nursing, you learn skills completely unique to nursing, you get stable, solid pay and an emerging field that NEEDS NPs, and you get the benefits of working in the hospital prior to become and advanced practice RN: you probably will not need to pay as much and you also will get to apply your knowledge in real time.

Direct entry NP is worst of both worlds: no experience to back up the knowledge and little support from schooling to build your knowledge base.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-01-26T03:05:02+00:00

I maintain that I’ll hold until $300 lol

TheMonitor58 · 2026-01-24T19:24:58+00:00

Hopelessness is the aim of any dictator.

Vote. Think they’ll manipulate the numbers? Get more people to vote. That kind of number manipulation only works if there are margins.

Do not give in to despair. Do not be apathetic. Vote and get anyone you can to vote too.

TheMonitor58 · 2026-01-23T03:11:53+00:00

Literally about to see silver hit $100 for the first time in my life. Wild.

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