The dolls in the background of Babs’s photo... I hope I’m not the only one who sees those... *has nightmares for life*

He once picked up a stray kitten and cuddled it...TO DEATH.

I rewatched some SATC episodes over the holidays and the show has not aged well. But I never liked the Big character to start with. Not my cup of tea.

As a plus size woman with big tits, some of these would make lovely scarves and head kerchiefs.

I think what I like about her is she has actually allowed herself to show her age. And she looks all the more beautiful for it.

Count me among those who will grow old filled with bitterness and anger, and a stomach full of vodka infused fruit loops. Seriously, what lies we tell ourselves, and what empty pablum we use to conceal the truth of what we all know: growing old is terrible, scary, and comes with the promise of more. Would I rather be…

My hospital shut down because of this BS- a corporate owned free standing psych hospital, just missed the 100 yr mark, oldest west of the Mississippi, that instead of bowing down and graveling at the feet of CMS when they came to investigate a safety issue, instead acted with arrogance and shit seemed to be worse each…

I had hoped with people being required to have insurance that things would improve but sadly it hasn’t. The margins are so thin at a hospital that they try and cut costs without even thinking of how the people they are cutting directly affect patient care. The higher ups make too much and don’t do their jobs. Way too…

My hospital system merged with another hospital system last year. We had the much better reputation and yet everything is changing to their way because it is cheaper. Cheaper supplies, 5 to 1 pt ratio’s being standard instead of just sometimes while cutting all support staff, all being required to wear one color…

One self-care step at a time!

Verrrryyy true. When my hospital started INSISTING that I clock out for my 30 minutes, I obliged even though I knew it was wrong and was against anything I believed. That being said, I wasn’t going to completely work through a clock out, so while I stayed in the office in case shit just went absolutely down, I refused…

My new thing at work is to make sure I take at least one bathroom break if not two. Way too many times I was getting home and realizing I hadn’t peed for 13 hours.

You’re so correct. Fuck that “lucky to have a job at all” bullshit,it’s exactly how employers have ass-fucked their workers over trivial bullshit like lunch breaks.

I hear you!!! It can get unpredictable on our floor too. It just means lunch sometimes at 1600 instead of 1200. The other day someone took lunch at 1700, 2 hours before change of shift lol. But you’re absolutely right, in our line of work sometimes it’s not feasible which is why I made the post in the first place.

I hear you that management makes a huge difference - I’ve had managers who are seriously useless when it comes to staffing and patient care, and others who come in on night shift, in scrubs to take patients. And I totally agree that on most units there’s no excuse to be regularly forced to skip lunch breaks - I feel…

I know this. I do work on a critical care floor in a level trauma 1 center that is also a local center for congenital heart repairs. (Pediatric ICU) Trust me, it gets fucking busy. But it’s up to the managers to help support. I have had my manager come out and listen out for patients and even give meds so people can…

This is true for a lot of floors, but critical care environments are really tough for this, just because they're so hard to predict.

Oy....I’m a nurse and we only get 30 minutes. It takes 15 minutes just to get to and from the cafeteria. It takes 30 minutes just to get to some non hospital food. Anyway at least I even get to eat. I have nurse friends who get so busy on their floor with no support from their managers or coworkers to cover them so…

My last job was like that. I wish I could have eaten at my desk, except I was reprimanded for doing so once. Apparently the owner of the company hated the smell of food. Fuck that place. 8-5 with an unpaid hour long lunch.

I don’t take a lunch break because my asshole company wants me to stop the clock while I’m lunching, so a “9 to 5" is really either an “8 to 5" or “9 to 6.” I have a family and other parts of my life that I like a lot, lot more than my job, and I have a commute through some of the worst traffic in the country. I grew…