Wilber's Revenge
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Fuck yeah, Cops suck and Rivers are super cool. Also before anyone asks The Ohio River, Great Lakes, and Upper Mississippi are the 3 best River Basins.
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First it was “go to college”
Then it was “major in STEM”
Then it was “one year experience”
Then it was “three years experience”
Then it was “three years of DIRECTLY RELATED experience”
Then it was five years of DIRECTLY RELATED experience"
Now, if you didn’t practically invent the technology a company uses, you’ve got no shot.
“but I started in the mailr..”
Nobody gives a f*ck about how you started in the mail room. You’re the CEO now. The mail room job is an unpaid internship now, and it requires 3 years of directly related mail delivery experience to even be considered. Sit down.
Holy shit, you reblogged this from 3 years ago and, like… there’s not a word here I’d change
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ok full offense but if you going on strike might cause the death or worsening chronic illness and health of other people maybe you shouldnt do it jesus fuck
That’s the point. Modern pharmacy has 2 people doing a 4-5 person job. Pharmacists are being held to unsustainable quota’s, people are going to die because the Pharmacist wasn’t able to accurately look at your allergy list because there’s 5 cars in the drive thru and 5 flu/covid vaccines waiting in store.
People are going to die because the Pharmacist didn’t have time to check the accuracy of the prescription or if there’s any ill effects to mixing medications. It’s already happening, it’s happened several times now. They’re not asking for more money, they’re asking for more help.
What @klingonrealitytelevision said.
@vaguelyabnormal I’m a chronically-ill now-disabled former healthcare worker, so… let’s unpack a few things, shall we?
KRON4 (major Bay Area news outlet) says:
California pharmacies are reportedly making almost 5 million medication errors a year […]
Nearly 91 percent of pharmacists in a recent survey conducted by the California Board of Pharmacy report that staffing was not high enough to provide adequate patient care.
Meanwhile, over 83 percent of pharmacists reported that they did not have sufficient time to provide appropriate consultations to patients to make sure they understand how to safely take their medications.
Medication errors can have serious repercussions for patients leading to severe illness, permanent disability, and death […]
Decisions about staffing and safety are usually made by the management of a chain store rather than the pharmacist who has undertaken years of education to safely provide sometimes dangerous medications.Two different recent medical literature reviews found no clear evidence of increased patient mortality or morbidity (illness / negative health outcomes) due to medical staff strikes, in large part because medical strikes typically require the continuation of skeleton staffing to address emergencies. Medical ethics generally agree that labor strikes must be a tactic of last resort – and that they can be the most ethical of bad options, sacrificing short term suffering for long term public health and safety.
Everywhere I worked, I saw the real impacts of medical understaffing on patient care. Healthcare companies & institutions are often motivated too much by profit & not enough by the on-the-ground needs of patients and providers. They rely on that “I can’t let my patients down” ethic to pressure workers into persevering under unsustainable conditions. Caregivers who are routinely and systematically denied the resources they need (time per patient, equiptment, living wage within sane hours, etc) burn out. They fuck up. They get sick. My own disability was partly driven by chronic overwork.
I have seen too many patients suffer directly because their care providers, including me, were stretched too thin to do our jobs adequately. When you work hospice/hospital and make a mistake someone spends extra months working through complicated grief, or develops a much more serious condition because the early signs got overlooked, or has a painful or lonely death. I carry human-suffering weight of my mistakes. I always will. This isn’t abstract. As I write this, I’m thinking about specific people who my coworkers and I failed because we were running to look after twice as many patients as we could handle, and management refused to listen to us.
It’s impossible not to make mistakes when you’re constantly exhausted and stressed.
That’s what healthcare workers strike for: conditions that enable us to provide good patient care.
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