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Remove immunity and require each officer to carry insurance. The more fucked up the department the higher their insurance and individually it swings further based on claims.

Hit their pocketbooks the way they hit their wives and kids.

thecrumbez

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

erratic-dragon-fruit

out of the tags with you

guerrillatech

audible-smiles

People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.

ominous-signs

Official please put yourself first sign

dungeonmastersconsortium

As someone who has worked in workers' compensation for the better part of a decade

You can die from overworking yourself.

This is especially common during the summer and nighttime shifts. You do NOT want to know the wide range of injuries I've seen. But you need to be careful and prioritize yourself and your own health always.

depsidase

longsightmyth

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

afeelgoodblog

Housekeepers and Janitors Need Praise As Unsung but Very Much Important

greatgodempresspan

Remember when the NRA told doctors to “stay in their lane” RE gun violence and #thisismylane trended as a result?

One of the tweets I saw was a surgeon who’d taken a picture of her OR, having just finished surgery on a young man who’d been shot. Blood. Everywhere.

This bloke retweeted her, mentioning that he worked as a cleaner in a hospital and had had to clean up stuff like this and worse.

Surgeon replied to him (and went up *greatly* in my estimation) and, despite living in different countries, thanked him for his hard work.

I can’t find the tweets sadly, but hers went something like;

“Without a clean and sterile operating room to work in, my team, our skills and the best medicines in the world are next to useless. You are doing invaluable work, without which my work would be impossible.”

yokelfelonking

I work as a nurse, and a huge amount of the care credited to us is actually certified nursing assistants, or CNAs (or “techs”). These are the folks who do a huge amount of the grunt work of cleaning up poop, changing dirty linens, feeding people, getting folks up to the chair and back to the bed, back and forth to and from the bathroom, etc, and they get paid, like, half of what we do.

I never see “CNA Appreciation Week” or “we love our CNAs” or people talking about how amazing our techs are.

God bless our CNAs. And housekeeping. And janitors, and supply staff, and sanitation workers, and all those folks doing the grunt work of making sure we’re not living in filth.

verityontheothersites

shoutout to our housekeepers (who do the food here) and cleaners and stores, who keep our cupboards stocked and order the stuff we need!

I remember working on a frailty ward way back when, and we had the same housekeeper covering mealtimes. Our patients would often stay for 2-4 weeks (which is really long for NHS acute hospital) with their delirium, behavioural symptoms of dementia and medical problems, and she remembered what each patient liked. The meal replacement drink flavours they liked, what kind of meat they liked, etc.

They did MUCH more to ensure our patients got nutrition than I ever could. (apart from meds reviews, pragmatic instructions etc)

verityontheothersites

oh also the porters, who know where absolutely everything is!! my first day at my current hospital, it was a lovely porter who showed me where to go

aprilslady

Oooh and ward clerks, who often are the ones organising your transport out of hospital, making sure your notes get to where they need to go and perhaps most cherished for most people, picking up the phone and putting you in touch with your loved one on the ward or with the nurse or doctor to get an update on their condition. We love ward clerks. When they’re not there it’s a bad fucking day.

Also a shout out to dispensers, who are the ones you’re mocking when you talk about “just putting labels on boxes”, when actually they play one of the worlds deadliest match-up games thousands of times a day.

And lab techs,without whom nobody would have any blood results to make clinical decisions

And the wonderful people in the purchasing departments who are the reason there is enough fluid for people to get their IVs and the people who do all the desperate calling around wholesalers and beg and borrow from other hospitals to get that niche drug or maggots or leeches you need.

velvetys

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

molive-0

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

baddywronglegs

By this point Loch Ness is probably the inland body of water we can be most sure doesn't have a monster in it.

my-insanity-is-an-artform

But what if there IS one?

Better scan it again just to be sure.

rabbiteclair

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

smalllfieldmouse

my ex used to get pissed off every time i showed them this video they would be like "that's not how a train works" really angrily and storm out of the room

smalllfieldmouse

everyones gotta stop reblogging this bro they're gonna find it and get so mad they try to strangle me again

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.