God damn it I wanted one of them. Booo. We don’t need to subscribe for everything.First world problems complaint here, but I've been getting into audiobooks as something to do before sleep to cut down on screen time and hopefully improve my sleep quality (which does seem to be working).
But that's not the complaint. It's Audible. Why the fuck do you pay for the sub and then still have to pay for the audiobooks? Ok, sure, I'm on my free 3 month trial and you get one free credit a month you can exchange for any audiobook, so I haven't actually paid anything yet, but that just irks me. You pay for a sub, or you pay for the products. Not both.
They don't even have the one I actually wanted (Dracula read by Christopher Lee) even tho Amazon said they did. Got the one with Tim Curry instead.
No, it's like Google Stadia, where you pay for a sub just to use the service, but then still have to buy each individual game. Except replace game with audiobook.God damn it I wanted one of them. Booo. We don’t need to subscribe for everything.
Edit: oh you mean we need one for the voice actor and another for the book. Gotcha.
God... can't even imagine doing something like this anymore. (I hope you could get REAL, long sleep and a hot bath now? Everything ok?)Ive been awake for 36h straight and worked for all but 4 of it. Trying to catch 5h of sleep so I can get up for another maintenance tonight.
I’d lose my mind if I had to be in those kinds of meetings. It’s a flaw of human nature that social interaction is tied so closely to a sense of self worth (specifically dopamine in a chemical sense), where people feel the need to blabber on and on in total irrelevance to the actual point of being there in the first place. The “cold impersonality” of email communication is a work setting is more often than not a necessity towards keeping things functional. If people have a problem with that, then odds are they’d be the first to thrown you under the bus whenever there’s disagreement that arises from verbal communications.Ok, 1st world complaint incoming in 3... 2... 1...
Ever since working from home became a norm in 2020, I really hate the reliance we've accepted on virtual meetings. I'm an email guy. It's documentation, all the need-to-know info if a concise, finite space to be referenced at a moment's notice. I can read your email, reply with questions, and vet responses until a task is complete. But nowadays, people seem to think after the precursory 5 minutes of banter on a MS Teams call about your weekend, sports, and the weather, I'm supposed to recall the critical point of the call where you mentioned a critical ask with an expected 48 hour turnaround?? Why am I tasked with asking the permission of 10 people on a Teams call if I can record the meeting when the budgeted half-hour meeting could have been summarized in a 2 minute email negating the point of the call entirely?!?
Send me a fucking email telling me what you need, and I'll reply with the answer or clarifying questions; NONE of that requires the important shit muddled with pretentious casual conversation and an immediate demand of everyone's time.
I wish I had all those skills, but fuck I'm old, I'm busy and my brain can only hold some much...stuff. Occasionally the developers are like "Piscian you're as smart as us we can just teach you", but they don't understand the more I pack in the more I lose.
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It's almost as if facing the prospect of two or three days spent working without sleep makes a lot of people not want to take on that kind of work, or somethin'.Considering some other posts you’ve made about working two or three literal days with nary a smidge of sleep thanks to the apparent lack of personnel in this kind of work, that could be a contributing factor!
It's ok I've started leaving little notes for myself to help me remember stuffConsidering some other posts you’ve made about working two or three literal days with nary a smidge of sleep thanks to the apparent lack of personnel in this kind of work, that could be a contributing factor!
https://www.piedmont.org/living-real-change/the-impact-of-sleep-on-your-memory#:~:text=Research has shown that sleep,ability to remember or learn
Ain’t “advanced society” awesome‽
It's almost as if facing the prospect of two or three days spent working without sleep makes a lot of people not want to take on that kind of work, or somethin'.
I have a friend who is a doctor. When he was doing residency it was completely expected that they would work 24 hour shifts, and some of the doctors they worked under complained that they weren't allowed to make them work more because "back in their day" they would do 36 hour shifts. It wasn't because there was a shortage of med school students, and it's not like the hospitals couldn't afford to have more residents, they already barely pay them, but doing the work is seen as a privilege. Nothing will change without legislation because you can abuse students all you want, if they complain about it they'll get kicked out of the residency program and won't be able to work in the field they just spent 10 years studying for, and hospitals don't have any incentive to change the status quo.Chicken/Egg? Or, if there wasn’t a labor shortage in these kinds of positions, one could surmise that shifts might be more reasonable. Same for hospital workers like nurses. Do you really want someone handing out meds at the end of a double shift?
Nurses are burnt out. Here's how hospitals can help
Studies have found that overworked nurses lead to more medical errors and lower patient satisfaction.www.healthcaredive.com
I have a friend who is a doctor. When he was doing residency it was completely expected that they would work 24 hour shifts, and some of the doctors they worked under complained that they weren't allowed to make them work more because "back in their day" they would do 36 hour shifts. It wasn't because there was a shortage of med school students, and it's not like the hospitals couldn't afford to have more residents, they already barely pay them, but doing the work is seen as a privilege. Nothing will change without legislation because you can abuse students all you want, if they complain about it they'll get kicked out of the residency program and won't be able to work in the field they just spent 10 years studying for, and hospitals don't have any incentive to change the status quo.
Apparently that's a thing that happens every so often. You'd think after the first time, people would realise there was a problem and change things, but apparently not.Damn that train was moving. Way too little time between when the gate went down to actual crossing. Like apparently that trucker thought nothing of it. Lights should’ve also been flashing half a minute prior to the gate.
If it's already happened once then really what's the chance of it happening again? Obviously people will learn after the first time! No need to waste time and money making changes.Apparently that's a thing that happens every so often. You'd think after the first time, people would realise there was a problem and change things, but apparently not.