Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/WalmartInc/status/1574400510806859777

HootTheOwl posted:

Is roblox like minecraft where I can tear it all down?

quote:

Hospitals continue to lean on travelers because the influx of patients has not slowed in months — some are in for COVID-19 treatments, but many are admitted for summer injuries or delayed care due to the pandemic.

Health care leaders say they are caught in a messy cycle: Hospitals need travel nurses to cover standard shifts, but travelers are expensive, and the longer hospitals retain high levels of contract nurses, the worse financial shape they’ll be in.

Salaries for travelers, whose pay rates can be up to two or three times more than a permanent staffer’s, are one of the major reasons hospital systems in the Pacific Northwest — home to a large community of travel nurses — are having budget problems, hospital leaders say. And it leads to morale issues with the permanent nurses.

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This summer, the Washington State Hospital Association reported hospitals across the state suffered a net loss of about $929 million in the first three months of 2022. While operating revenue increased by 5%, operating expenses increased by 11%.

Association CEO Cassie Sauer said at the time that if the trend continued, hospitals would likely have to cut some services or close inpatient units — or, in a worst-case scenario, close or file for bankruptcy. Some large Seattle hospitals have already shown signs of strain.

In August, for example, a lack of bed space and an increasing number of high-cost patients staying for long periods forced Harborview to temporarily divert some patients to nearby hospitals.

Marenghi posted:

It's exploiting the fact kids that young aren't discerning, and don't know how to compare products. You'll see identical skins for $1, $10, and $100.

Unless posted:

teaching them the only form of self-expression that matters, and can be seen, is through consumption

Ham Equity posted:

Cross-posting from the Seattle thread:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/wa-is-stuck-with-a-travel-nurse-dilemma-pitting-care-against-costs/

Money shots:

Hospitals having to shut down in bankruptcy due to having too many patients.

Truly the best possible system.

indigi posted:

1) do travel nurses actually have to travel or can you just be a free agent who takes 3 month contracts 2) why doesn't every nurse travel lmao how can you pass up 2x pay. if there's that many travel nurses you can staff half a facility with them it can't be busloads of indigent nurses crisscrossing the interstates looking for jobs

indigi posted:

1) do travel nurses actually have to travel or can you just be a free agent who takes 3 month contracts 2) why doesn't every nurse travel lmao how can you pass up 2x pay. if there's that many travel nurses you can staff half a facility with them it can't be busloads of indigent nurses crisscrossing the interstates looking for jobs

hobbesmaster posted:

there usually is a geographic minimum, but it’s on the order of an hour’s drive usually. so with two nearby cities you do get all the nurses in city A quitting and getting travel contracts in city B and vice versa

the remaining staff nurses usually have childcare or other issues that prevent them from having a very long commute or moving and are greatly annoyed that “there’s no money for raises”

indigi posted:

even that's a bad metric. an hour's drive could be the Bronx to Staten Island

e:


e2: holy gently caress 3 hours by subway?? what the gently caress is going on in New York

indigi posted:

even that's a bad metric. an hour's drive could be the Bronx to Staten Island

e:


e2: holy gently caress 3 hours by subway?? what the gently caress is going on in New York

Ham Equity posted:

Cross-posting from the Seattle thread:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/wa-is-stuck-with-a-travel-nurse-dilemma-pitting-care-against-costs/

Money shots:

Hospitals having to shut down in bankruptcy due to having too many patients.

Truly the best possible system.

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

pay the ceo less

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

pay the ceo less

indigi posted:

even that's a bad metric. an hour's drive could be the Bronx to Staten Island

e:


e2: holy gently caress 3 hours by subway?? what the gently caress is going on in New York

Leon Sumbitches posted:

The subway doesn't connect to Staten Island.

In Training posted:

There's a river in the way

Panfilo posted:

Dan Price being outed as a shitheel also gave chuds a convenient strawman to use when the topic of "pay the boss less and the workers more" ever comes up.

The Sean posted:

I am not interested in defending him though I am curious about what you are referring to.

Tiggum posted:

I think that getting trains across rivers is actually a problem we solved a while ago.

Tiggum posted:

I think that getting trains across rivers is actually a problem we solved a while ago.

Coolness Averted posted:

invented his whole compassionate capitalist persona as a PR stunt after a lawsuit involving his brother -a coowner of the company- sued Dan for pilfering the company with ridiculous pay increases for himself.

indigi posted:

who cares about this. he pays his employees well and that's a better outcome than 99.999% of corporate executives who get sued for financial malfeasance. did he do anything actually bad (besides being a capitalist)

if anything the fact that he's still a greedy image obsessed weirdo makes him more useful as a cudgel

evilpicard posted:

He has charges of "light" sexual assault.

Also accused (not charged afaict) with rape.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Weembles posted:

Yes - a while ago.

In the modern era of "replacing that stop sign will cost 8 billion dollars and seven years of environmental review before getting cancelled when the next governor takes office" it's a little harder.

indigi posted:

who cares about this. he pays his employees well and that's a better outcome than 99.999% of corporate executives who get sued for financial malfeasance. did he do anything actually bad (besides being a capitalist)

if anything the fact that he's still a greedy image obsessed weirdo makes him more useful as a cudgel

ekuNNN posted:

Ah yes, the environmental protections in the US are too strong

hobbesmaster posted:

I believe any bridges there would have to be ridiculously high to accommodate shipping traffic?

clearly it can be done but if the ferry works

quote:

Employees reportedly contributed to buy a Tesla for Price as a show of gratitude,[27] but two experienced employees in Gravity’s marketing department later said that Price himself came up with the Tesla gift idea.

quote:

Price resigned as Gravity Payments CEO on August 17, 2022, telling employees that he needs to step aside from his CEO role to "focus full time on fighting false accusations made against me."

quote:

Price has made frequent use of social media to post liberal-leaning critiques about socioeconomic issues. Some of his posts were widely shared as Internet memes. Most of his posts were ghostwritten by Mike Rosenberg,[1] a former reporter for The Seattle Times who was suspended from his job in 2019 after revelations that he sent sexually explicit messages to another journalist.