My union got me more money in a single year than I will pay in dues for my entire career in at least 3 separate years in the 6 years I've been working for my employer.

I get leave each year that is slightly more than 20 percent of my work hours.

Unions are amazing for workers.

Non Union people are so abused you think this is unethical.

One of our leave types pays out in March any hours over 96 if we don't ask to carry it over to the next year. We can take our overtime pay as leave (at 1.5 hours leave to 1 hour worked), and bonus holiday pay as leave.

This year the local negotiated a cost of living increase and eliminating the bottom two step increases, resulting in an approximate 14 percent pay bump for most employees. I also received a promotion this year.

I banked hundreds of hours of leave earlier this year from overtime and holidays that will payout in March next year 26 percent higher than when I worked it. I've done this every year I have promoted, and we are expected to do this since it is one of the ways we can burn our leave totals without taking off. If I had been really smart I would have carried over my leave from 2022 so it pays out next year, and I would have seen a single paycheck next year that was equal to half my years base pay last year.

When that pays out I will still have nearly 6 months of leave banked.

Your employer can afford to pay you. Make them pay you.

That's probably the price for land with sewer and water connections. There will be a new build there soon.

My union has gotten me more money in multiple single years since I've been hired that I'll pay in dues for my whole career.

At my previous job I did hospital triage. Once a guy walked up to me and said "My wife isn't doing well, I think she's dead". He told me she had been sick for several days and when she started doing really badly he had to get his neighbor to help carry her to the car. He said he didn't want to bother the fire department.

He had driven from his home on the eastern fucking shore of Maryland to DC. 100+ miles. Told me he was going to be staying at his house in Maryland because he didn't like his house in DC. She came out of the passenger seat and stayed in a seated position and we put her in an unstaffed room.

I think this is the longest running battle in the history of warfare at this point.

Used to see these people with multiple prescriptions for Percocets. They would use one for themselves and sell all the rest as individual pills to pay for treatment.

American healthcare system turned little old ladies with cancer into hardcore drug dealers.

But to add to the irony, a roof is designed to keep water out of the house, as that is it's primary job. If the roof is burned off enough that a downpour can put the fire out the only thing in there that isn't a charred soggy mess is the foundation. This guy has lost everything he has and he's just watching everyone else celebrate someone who was an asshole to him.

I have been looking into this lately, it seems there may be some commercial options that are normally for industrial use. I found some on Amazon that seem too cheap for this.

As a firefighter I've been running a bunch of these battery calls. The best case scenario is they just smoke up your house., and worse case I've seen videos online of the room going from nothing to IDLH (Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health) in under 20 seconds.

We've had a ton of ebikes and scooters burn up in homes. Never charge those inside. I've see power tool batteries burn up huge sections of residential houses, and I've seen laptop batteries explode right under the feet of other firefighters. That last bit was super cool, rarely get to see explosions that aren't car tires popping. Those laptop batteries would have caused a huge amount of damage if the building wasn't made of concrete - they allow modern midrises to be stuck built!

I do 48 hours in 2 days every week. Bit more spread out, but still just 2 days of work.

My understanding is that is commuter distance to affordable living up there in Canada

My county in MD has had this for years. We have a psychologist with a specialty in PTSD and first responder treatment on staff with multiple therapists in a separate section within the department. That's been around long enough that our first psychiatrist retired from the position.

Unfortunately I'm certain that there are very few places as progressive as we are.

Lithobreaking maneuver.

Grab the pixel buds pro? Those are 200.

I am very happy with my boox note 2. Use it to read books, manga, and take notes in OneNote for classes.

Of course. I also take almost a month's worth of vacation every year. The way my shift schedule rotates I can often take a single day off and go away for more than a week, making it easy to accrue leave if I'm only slightly picky with my schedule. The last few years I've started to pick up skiing.

I was sick for several weeks last year, which sucked but my sick leave covered it easily. That will get me 5% on my pension per year accrued at retirement and I'm still on pace to get a year. Partial years are counted but that's the easy number to remember

During the entirety of the pandemic we obtained free leave for a positive COVID test for the duration of the illness.

Best: when not on a call I have minimal supervision and can do virtually whatever I want. I do good work and have legitimately saved 3 or so lives in the past month in my new position.

Worst: sleep is poor and my schedule is annoying if I have to nap in my off time.

I bought a 5 piece set of these at Costco a few weeks ago and they are amazing.

If you have asthma don't fuck around with inhalants. I'm a paramedic and I've seen too many people lately with asthma not responding to their daily inhaler (advair,breo,etc...) plus their nebulizer at home with Albuterol and ipratropium. Last shift I had two people who were dying from asthma exacerbations at home, one I managed to reverse with what I have and she left the ER 8 hours later and the other I prevented an intubation and he still went to the ICU. There's too many irritants in the air for you to add more to yourself. Stick to edibles.

We get an extra dollar an hour for a second language if we pass the test for it.