Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines.
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my employer used to set up a tent just inside the gate and give away flu shots to anyone who would take them. Which was good.
They also ran a rewards program if you didn't take sick days. Which was bad. I had to fight with one of my direct reports once who was like no, if I go home I lose my incentive, and I was like I don't give a shit you just dripped snot on my desk I'm putting you in for a sick day no matter what you do, so go fucking home.
@Wyatt_H_Knott incentives to come in to work sick are fucked up. Do folx not understand how communicable illnesses work?? 😮💨
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@PatrickoftheG I used to work in the game industry—they'd do anything to keep us from ever leaving work to see our families.
- stocked fridges
- cereal dispensers
- unlimited soda/coffee
- daycare downstairs
- free ice cream days
- game nights
and so on.I typically worked 70 hour weeks.
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@Wyatt_H_Knott incentives to come in to work sick are fucked up. Do folx not understand how communicable illnesses work?? 😮💨
@alice They just didn't want people to take sick days. Same company got in trouble with the labor board because their "culture" was you worked 45 hours a week, even though your contract said 40. The designers sued them and got back pay, but we engineers just got dirty looks if we didn't clock OVER 40 hours every week. Very frowned upon to clock exactly 40.0 and I was always like WTF, that's what you PAY ME for.
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@alice They just didn't want people to take sick days. Same company got in trouble with the labor board because their "culture" was you worked 45 hours a week, even though your contract said 40. The designers sued them and got back pay, but we engineers just got dirty looks if we didn't clock OVER 40 hours every week. Very frowned upon to clock exactly 40.0 and I was always like WTF, that's what you PAY ME for.
@Wyatt_H_Knott more reasons we should outlaw capitalism. It's inherently exploitative (not to mention built on the back of women's free domestic labor).
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@Wyatt_H_Knott more reasons we should outlaw capitalism. It's inherently exploitative (not to mention built on the back of women's free domestic labor).
@alice @Wyatt_H_Knott @benroyce I initially misread that as "built on domestic abuse" but actually yeah pretty much. -
@alice They just didn't want people to take sick days. Same company got in trouble with the labor board because their "culture" was you worked 45 hours a week, even though your contract said 40. The designers sued them and got back pay, but we engineers just got dirty looks if we didn't clock OVER 40 hours every week. Very frowned upon to clock exactly 40.0 and I was always like WTF, that's what you PAY ME for.
@alice They also loved to send us on travel (to scenic Newport News Virginia or someplace equally glamorous) and then clock us 8.0 hours for the day. So you could be on travel from Monday to Friday, and still only clock a 40 hour week.
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@Wyatt_H_Knott @alice @benroyce Travel for work is for work, it should be part of work hours and paid.
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@alice @Wyatt_H_Knott @benroyce I initially misread that as "built on domestic abuse" but actually yeah pretty much.
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@Wyatt_H_Knott @alice @benroyce Travel for work is for work, it should be part of work hours and paid.
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Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines. Now I feel like shit from the jabs, and lemme tell you...
I'd get them again in a fucking heartbeat, because science and social responsibility fucking rock 🤘
I always get shots done separate days. That way if I have a negative reaction, I know which Jab done me dirty.
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i think "the day after a vaccine sucks" is a big motivator of the antivax movement
no one likes that day
but for a certain sort of painfully ignorant type of person, that is all vaccines mean
the whole "protect you from diseases that will REALLY make you miserable or deathly ill, for a week, a month, or years, possibly maim you, permanently, or possibly kill you" part...
you know, the fucking obvious
it doesn't matter to people who can't or won't think about really simple things
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nobody does
but we grimace, get the shot, and carry on
children are excused a more dramatic reaction. and some adults have valid phobias or trauma about needles (and they steel themselves and put aside their fears, because they can think. emotion is not a problem, lack of thinking is)
but, there exists supposedly grown adults who "function" on this "Mummy, Mummy, I don't like needles! 😭" immaturity. *and* it informs their entire political attitude towards vaccines
morons
@benroyce @CppGuy @alice When
I was 15 there was a huge meningitis epidemic. People were dying. So everyone got vaxxed. I went with a schoolfriend of mine and her mom. My friend was afraid of needles and I was too. I was, though, more afraid of dying.
I went first and got it, it was fine.
My friend, though, a 15 year old teen, made this RIDICULOUS scene, cried, screamed, the drama lasted one hour (1/2) -
@benroyce @CppGuy @alice When
I was 15 there was a huge meningitis epidemic. People were dying. So everyone got vaxxed. I went with a schoolfriend of mine and her mom. My friend was afraid of needles and I was too. I was, though, more afraid of dying.
I went first and got it, it was fine.
My friend, though, a 15 year old teen, made this RIDICULOUS scene, cried, screamed, the drama lasted one hour (1/2) -
makes me think of this:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7120417/
of course this idea fires up the whole genetic engineering debate
but i wonder: if people could just eat foods, and get vaccinated thataways, if antivax hysteria might disappear
(or maybe make it worse, from the conspiracy theory wing, even though this quells the needle hesitancy wing)
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@benroyce @CppGuy @alice I sometimes feel like crap after a vaccine, yeah. I sometimes feel like crap after I eat too much. Or during air travel. I always feel like crap after I drink wine now that I'm in my 40s. Feeling like crap once in a while is part of the human experience and you can't stop it from happening, especially if it brings something good - like staying healthy.
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makes me think of this:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7120417/
of course this idea fires up the whole genetic engineering debate
but i wonder: if people could just eat foods, and get vaccinated thataways, if antivax hysteria might disappear
(or maybe make it worse, from the conspiracy theory wing, even though this quells the needle hesitancy wing)
It's not the same technique (I didn't eat a GM plant), but I'm sure I had the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. So at least some vaccines have been delivered orally for many decades.
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@benroyce @CppGuy @alice I sometimes feel like crap after a vaccine, yeah. I sometimes feel like crap after I eat too much. Or during air travel. I always feel like crap after I drink wine now that I'm in my 40s. Feeling like crap once in a while is part of the human experience and you can't stop it from happening, especially if it brings something good - like staying healthy.
@renata @benroyce @CppGuy @alice I once had a reaction to a flu shot that was almost the same as the flu itself, except for no cough, no six weeks of bronchitis after it, and no need to isolate to protect other people.
Those symptoms had a known source creating zero risk to others as this is not a live virus vaccine. This was the flu vaccine containing the Sydney strain, about 9 months after having had that and had a case that would have sent most people to the hospital though I ruled that out for personal reasons. Thus on seeing it again my immune system hit back very hard I guess.
Somehow I've never had a detectable unpleasant reaction to a covid vaccine, and so far only one symptomatic covid case.
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@benroyce @CppGuy @alice I sometimes feel like crap after a vaccine, yeah. I sometimes feel like crap after I eat too much. Or during air travel. I always feel like crap after I drink wine now that I'm in my 40s. Feeling like crap once in a while is part of the human experience and you can't stop it from happening, especially if it brings something good - like staying healthy.
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@AnnieBuddy @renata @benroyce @CppGuy @alice
they wont let us have a shingles shot until we're 50 here in Marlaina's Alberta
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