Open Bar: Funnier Than White People Practicing Voodoo

[Trivial]

Which way?  The common one I've heard is the father being color blind and the female child getting something that detects between yellow and green better.

The other way is something the uv hues, but I thought that involved something done with the cornea.

[Cain]

I'm changing old people's diapers for a living this summer. They're evil. But hey, it's work.

Welcome to the club.  Dementia evil or just plain old evil?  I've got dementia patients, and it's faeces thrown around the room, urine everywhere, death threats, punching and kicking....I swear my job is closer to "environmental hazard specialist moonlighting as a bouncer" than "carer" 90% of the time.

[Junkenstein]

Consider what I know Asbestos/Envrionmental cleaning operatives get paid compared to what Carers get, I'd seriously consider a change in field.

Sure, you're still working with shit and hazardous crap, but at least no-ones throwing it around the room or beating you while you're cleaning it up.

The RPE and PPE is also something a a bonus which I suspect will also be considerably better. By which I mean it exists and you get issued it.

[Suu]

Consider what I know Asbestos/Envrionmental cleaning operatives get paid compared to what Carers get, I'd seriously consider a change in field.

Sure, you're still working with shit and hazardous crap, but at least no-ones throwing it around the room or beating you while you're cleaning it up.

The RPE and PPE is also something a a bonus which I suspect will also be considerably better. By which I mean it exists and you get issued it.

You're a CNA/LNA? So is Katniss Everdeen, my neighbor across the hall. When she first started the job, she seemed pretty sweet, and the other day when I went out for a walk with her, she was saying how she can't stand vomit. There's always the one thing medical professionals can't handle and hers is puke. She also completely changed the day one of her patients died. Not in a bad way, it's totally expected in the field, but it definitely hit her in the brainpan a certain way how finite life is.

[Junkenstein]

I'm in Demolition in general and have dealt with a fair few jobs with substantial Asbestos/Birdshit/a range of hilariously toxic things removal as part of the overall works. I also know a couple of people who work in care so I've got a fair idea of pay-scales.

The worst one I've dealt with off the top of my head was a disused club that had part of the roof collapse some years previously. Pigeon shit was about knee-high throughout, towering whereever there was a spot to sit above. Doors, for example were basically minor pyramids of shit and initally unrecognisable as doors.

The great thing is that all this (literal) crap has to be removed before you knock the place down. That place had men and shovels hauling shit out of the place for weeks. I made damn sure they were all well paid, but I doubt it really compensated for, well, everything.

[Reginald Ret]

I'm in Demolition in general and have dealt with a fair few jobs with substantial Asbestos/Birdshit/a range of hilariously toxic things removal as part of the overall works. I also know a couple of people who work in care so I've got a fair idea of pay-scales.

The worst one I've dealt with off the top of my head was a disused club that had part of the roof collapse some years previously. Pigeon shit was about knee-high throughout, towering whereever there was a spot to sit above. Doors, for example were basically minor pyramids of shit and initally unrecognisable as doors.

The great thing is that all this (literal) crap has to be removed before you knock the place down. That place had men and shovels hauling shit out of the place for weeks. I made damn sure they were all well paid, but I doubt it really compensated for, well, everything.

I hope they got good medical insurance, pigeons are nasty.

[Suu]

I'm in Demolition in general and have dealt with a fair few jobs with substantial Asbestos/Birdshit/a range of hilariously toxic things removal as part of the overall works. I also know a couple of people who work in care so I've got a fair idea of pay-scales.

The worst one I've dealt with off the top of my head was a disused club that had part of the roof collapse some years previously. Pigeon shit was about knee-high throughout, towering whereever there was a spot to sit above. Doors, for example were basically minor pyramids of shit and initally unrecognisable as doors.

The great thing is that all this (literal) crap has to be removed before you knock the place down. That place had men and shovels hauling shit out of the place for weeks. I made damn sure they were all well paid, but I doubt it really compensated for, well, everything.

Oh sorry, I totally misunderstood what you said! But still, at least you get to blow shit up for a living.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm in Demolition in general and have dealt with a fair few jobs with substantial Asbestos/Birdshit/a range of hilariously toxic things removal as part of the overall works. I also know a couple of people who work in care so I've got a fair idea of pay-scales.

The worst one I've dealt with off the top of my head was a disused club that had part of the roof collapse some years previously. Pigeon shit was about knee-high throughout, towering whereever there was a spot to sit above. Doors, for example were basically minor pyramids of shit and initally unrecognisable as doors.

The great thing is that all this (literal) crap has to be removed before you knock the place down. That place had men and shovels hauling shit out of the place for weeks. I made damn sure they were all well paid, but I doubt it really compensated for, well, everything.

I'm surprised you didn't charge a fertilizer company to haul it away. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Stayed home today because I wanna.

Not doing shit.  Next chapter is tomorrow.

[Cain]

Consider what I know Asbestos/Envrionmental cleaning operatives get paid compared to what Carers get, I'd seriously consider a change in field.

Sure, you're still working with shit and hazardous crap, but at least no-ones throwing it around the room or beating you while you're cleaning it up.

The RPE and PPE is also something a a bonus which I suspect will also be considerably better. By which I mean it exists and you get issued it.

I'm still waiting for a uniform.

I only started in February.

So not only do I deal with hazardous biological material all night, I then have to wash it off my own clothes in the morning.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Which way?  The common one I've heard is the father being color blind and the female child getting something that detects between yellow and green better.

The other way is something the uv hues, but I thought that involved something done with the cornea.

Most likely deuteranomaly, with an inherited defective "green" cone in addition to a normal green cone. There are many types of colorblindness, and it's also common to have a defective "red" cone, though. In my case, if I do have it, it would have come from my mother, who would have inherited it from her father. I'm trying to see if I can find someone who's studying it and would be willing to do a genetic test.

We can't see uv, it's outside of our visible spectrum, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. UV exposure does over time cause damage to the cornea, though.

[Suu]

Which way?  The common one I've heard is the father being color blind and the female child getting something that detects between yellow and green better.

The other way is something the uv hues, but I thought that involved something done with the cornea.

Most likely deuteranomaly, with an inherited defective "green" cone in addition to a normal green cone. There are many types of colorblindness, and it's also common to have a defective "red" cone, though. In my case, if I do have it, it would have come from my mother, who would have inherited it from her father. I'm trying to see if I can find someone who's studying it and would be willing to do a genetic test.

We can't see uv, it's outside of our visible spectrum, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. UV exposure does over time cause damage to the cornea, though.

I find color blindness actually quite fascinating. A friend of mine in the SCA who I just did a shit ton of work for is red/green deficient, which I guess is the most common, and we were having such a cool discussion on how he sees things totally different than I do. Not just the colors, but the tones, and differences in light and dark, which makes the summer and the fall REALLY INTERESTING. I actually took all of this into account when I made his clothes so he could get dressed easy and match better.

[Junkenstein]

Cain, What you need is a box of type 5/6 coveralls.

Seriously, disposable, about £1-1.50/coverall. You won't look sexy but binning it at the end of a shift is better than your current alternative. Non-permeable as well so it'll take whatever you've got to deal with no problem.

I can get one's with logo's printed on for fairly little, it's tempting to send you one with "Because (Employer) can't get their shit together" for your last shift.


Several tons of the birdshit did eventually end up at various farms, but there's no real story there. 

[Ben Shapiro]

So the anti-viral medicine common side effect are water retention, and weight gain, and the anti-inflammatory medicine are spiking my blood sugar a lot, and increased urination/thrist.

So far I've gained 6lbs, and have drunk 3 bottles of water in the last hour.

Only two more days til all my medicine is gone then I play the waiting game. At least I'm not bleeding out my ass, or have developed a addiction to sweets. Yet........


Redoing my Engineering portfolio, and updating store inventory since new Forbidden & Limited List begins 07/14/2014 which means I have to answer neckbeard emails ZOMG DO YOU HAVE THIS CARD ZOMG I NEED NOW!

[Ben Shapiro]

Stayed home today because I wanna.

Not doing shit.  Next chapter is tomorrow.