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  • Absolutely no /s.

    I’ve worked there more than 25 years. Patient care has always been concern #1 from the top on down.

    Concern #2 is employee care. Not to say it’s not a job with the normal job shit. However, they went through a very rough patch many years ago, and were forced to layoff employees. It was an existential crisis, but to their credit, they learned the lesson so well that we haven’t had similar issues since. Even during the pandemic it did better than other area hospitals.










  • Not mine, but a guy I know got hired to be fired.

    He got a job with a company that managed storage systems. They hired him and gave him some basic training for the systems. After a few months, they sent him to a client who was irate. The client was angry when he got there and there was nothing he could do to appease them. The client demanded that they fire him so they did.

    He found out after that this was all theater for the client. The company would regularly hire someone new specifically so they could fire them when they sent them to this client. It sounded like the client was borderline insane, and this was how they managed to keep sucking massive amounts of fees out of the client without losing employees they actually valued. Once they fired a sacrificial tech, the client would be happy, and they could send one of their “permanent” employees out to deal with the technical issue.

    It worked out well for the fired guy. They hired him at a salary much higher than he was getting previously. The training he got there allowed him to move on to better jobs doing the same thing for even more pay working for employers who weren’t insane.







  • I had a friend at work who would come to my office at lunch time and remind me to stop working and have lunch. I’d be stuck on a problem and want to keep working on it, and he’d insist that I stop. He say that if I took some time away, I’d come back with the solution, and he was usually right.

    He would also stop by my office at the end of the day to remind me to go home. I worked with him almost 20 years.

    He retired in November of 2023 and passed away in June of 2024. I still miss him.




  • NABDad@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNo fear!
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    I knew a kid in high school who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the days before kids wore helmets.

    He was fucked up. He survived, but it was “learning how to walk and talk again” survival.

    I also had a teacher in college who wasn’t wearing a helmet when he flipped his bike and landed on his head. He was alright as long as you think regular, crippling migraines are alright.