Chetzemoka
@Chetzemoka@kbin.social
- Comment on Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen 1 year ago:
We'll get there in our time, friend.
- Comment on Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen 1 year ago:
If by "quitting" you mean we all die, I think you just might be right.
- Comment on Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen 1 year ago:
As I literally sit here in the cafeteria on my day off rallying for our upcoming union vote 💪
- Comment on 'Oppenheimer' Surpasses 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Becomes Highest-Grossing Biopic of All-Time 1 year ago:
Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I've ever watched twice. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.
- Comment on Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’ 1 year ago:
Have fun killing yourselves for other people's profit, I guess? I'm joining a union.
- Comment on Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’ 1 year ago:
Here's a crazy radical idea: Wealth does not improve people beyond a certain point. Leisure time and lack of stress improve people. The American culture of work yourself to death to accumulate is killing us and it's killing the world. It's time to stop.
Work, make enough money to provide, have plenty of leisure time to relax and spend with your family. Those are the lives we should be striving for.
- Comment on Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’ 1 year ago:
Why is less productivity a horrible thing? Why is wanting a good wage for just showing up and doing your normal job a bad thing? Why is having no interest in moving into management so atrocious?
It's way past time to start questioning American work culture. I shouldn't be expected to be operating at the razor's edge of my ability to keep up with everything constantly and forever for the rest of my life. I just want to punch a clock, do my job, and also be able to afford my mortgage for having done that and nothing more.
- Comment on Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’ 1 year ago:
"Unions make people lazy" "Unions make people less creative, less likely to work to fix problems" "Unions make employees fight with each other" "Unions mean we'll earn less money"
The propaganda I've heard from older generations is really incredible. We're still actively unionizing lol
- Comment on EBAY Prices 1 year ago:
Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:
https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom
Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.
- Comment on We are all made of carbon 1 year ago:
If the carbon is in my body, it's not in the atmosphere where it would contribute to climate change. Checkmate, atheists
- Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product? 1 year ago:
Without this feature, I wouldn't have known that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and PJ Harvey released new albums. So I'm torn. On the one hand, I'm happy artists I already love can still reach me; on the other hand, I hate that smaller artists I don't know about yet still have to pay to play
- Comment on Nothing infuriates me quite like anti working class propaganda being pushed by the eilte 1 year ago:
Understaffing, penny-pinching, forcing medical professionals to take on more and more work with no help, to say nothing of increased pay. These are the working conditions that hurt patients chronically.
That's why doctors and nurses strike. Especially THESE doctors - the new ones who just graduated from medical school. They're the single most exploited group of people working in healthcare when you account for how little they are paid in comparison to how much they're expected to work and how much revenue they generate.
In the US we call them resident doctors. In the UK junior doctors. I absolutely support their strike
- Comment on The Galaxy Class Starship 1 year ago:
Thank you for reminding me that I would love to own a copy of the TNG Tech Manual for display in my house
- Comment on 'Barbie' dominates cinemas: Movie tops $1 billion globally in first for solo woman director 1 year ago:
I'm the same. If I'm home, I'm gonna pause to...do whatever. So I actually prefer seeing movies I want to pay attention to in the theater.
Plus I just love the experience of a theater. I understand why someone who wasn't into that would prefer streaming. But I've always loved it and I don't expect that's going to change. So I'mma hold onto this AMC A-list membership for now
- Comment on Sun Burn 1 year ago:
Hahaha, yeah. The black kids at the summer camp I volunteer for always think it's funny when I'm chasing them with sunscreen in my hand too. Luke seriously though, y'all, have you ever burnt the tops of your ears?? Trust me, don't find out.
- Comment on Sun Burn 1 year ago:
It works the same way it works for anyone else who is in direct sunlight for too long. Black people can get melanoma too.
"All skin tones are susceptible to sun damage. Sunburn will cause darker skin tones to go darker, and the skin will feel hot and painful to touch. While darker skin tones are less likely to burn, almost anyone can get sunburnt or develop skin cancer."
- Comment on Looking for something, bub? 1 year ago:
Yes, but this looks like a wolf spider. Wolf spiders are yard spiders that run very very fast and therefore are required to stay in the yard. It is the law. There's nothing I can do about it.
(Or it's my childhood trauma. It's definitely one of those things...)
- Comment on Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA 1 year ago:
Which is why even the trees obey the line. Thanks, Rocky Mountain rain shadow!
- Comment on Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA 1 year ago:
Oh, you don't know about the line? Believe it or not, the line is actually real:
"Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line"
- Comment on J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Grandson Says He “Definitely Would Have Removed” One Scene in Christopher Nolan’s Film 1 year ago:
It's apocryphal. Apparently he told at least one friend at the time that he had done it. Whether he actually did it or just thought about it and was being a dramatic young man will never be known.
- Comment on :\ 1 year ago:
And total self-destruction through unmitigated greed
- Comment on N.J. nurses vote to strike, reject hospital’s settlement 1 year ago:
Good.
Pay is only part of the equation. Our number one demand in all of the recently increased number of nursing strikes is preservation of patient safety through safe nurse to patient ratios and prevention of burnout and turnover. Pay is a primary factor in attracting more staff to achieve those other goals.
To understand the impact of nurse to patient ratios: We are expected to "round on" or see all of our patients once per hour during a shift. We give medications, perform procedures, provide education and emotional support, but above all else, we monitor to see how you're doing and make sure nothing is changing for the worse. Oh, and then document in a computer every single time we blink an eye.
If a nurse has 4 assigned patients, this provides 15 minutes per patient per hour. Naturally not every patient will need exactly 15 minutes of care every hour. Some will just need a quick glance while another needs 30 minutes. At 4 patients per nurse on a "regular" medical-surgical floor (what you typically think of when you think of a hospital floor), that's pretty easy to balance and remain aware of the condition of all the patients and provide everything they need.
If you push that ratio to 5 patients per nurse, the time provided decreases to 12 minutes per patient per hour. At 6 patients, it's 10 min/pt/hr. At 7 patients, it's 8.5. You see how this goes. Oh and each additional patient requires the exact same amount of computer documentation, further decreasing the actual time spent caring for the patient.
There is absolutely an upper limit of how many patients one human nurse can safely monitor and care for at the same time. And it also depends on what level of care is being provided. An ICU nurse can't care for 4 unstable patients the way a med/surg nurse can care for 4 mostly stable patients.
Because nurses are a net labor cost for hospitals (nursing services are billed as part of a flat rate "room and board" charge rather than being billed separately - a historical holdover from the time when nurses were also housekeepers and not trained medical professionals in their own right), hospitals are always incentivized to reduce nursing staff and force nurses to take on more and more labor. If something goes wrong and a patient gets injured because we made a mistake, the hospital will just wash their hands of it because we're the licensed professionals responsible.
In our current system, hospitals will always have to be forced to provide you, the patient, sufficient nursing care. They'll never do it voluntarily. So we strike.