Huh, I did it yesterday and I clicked the 'here' link in the email and it took me to a page that said I was now opted out. I didn't have to do anything additional.
They will first stop paying your sick days and depending on what job you are in they may allow some additional time before they eventually fire you. If you are in a lower paying job it's likely you will be terminated earlier than someone in a higher paying white collar job.
For the three weeks I was there in March I bought a suica card at the airport and never had to think about fairs for subway or buses for the rest of the the trip. I also used it to pay fir food at convienance stores and roadside stops. That seems pretty darn convenient to me.
I work for a large US Corp in the US. I close my laptop at 430-5 and don't open it again until the next day. I don't have work email on my phone. Most of my friends who work for corps are the same. So I dunno. We are all on our 40s so maybe younger folks in their 20s are more connected or something but I don't think so.
Apparently Southwest is one of the biggest offenders in the airline industry when it comes to not investing in their IT infrastructure. You can only get away with that sort of debt for so long.
I also want to mention that I am in my 40s and had never climbed before I started about 5 months ago. I just signed up to take an intro to bouldering course at a local gym and went from there.
Additionally climbing is a very technical sport that involves a lot of problem solving which I find very appealing.
Being overweight or out of shape shouldn't stop you from giving it a try, you might stay climbing lower grade problems longer than others but you will still find challenging physical and mental puzzles that you can complete.
Very interesting. I was going to make the same suggestion. Specifically bouldering since I think it's generally easier for folks to plug into their daily routines with the proliferation of gyms and not needing a significant amount of equipment. But three times per week bouldering has radically changed my body and hands for the better. I no longer have elbow or forearm/wrist pain that I used to experience quite frequently after typing for a long period.
Glyder 2. It was a magnificent mobile game that stopped working quite a few android versions ago. I keep meaning to dig up an old phone and sideload it.
The hospital I work for just outsourced the majority of IT to Accenture in what I am sure will become one of the worst mistakes they have ever made. The 10% if us they kept are now going to be just doing cat herding work with all our contractors. It's..... a whole thing.
Doubt it. The healthcare org I work for is still happy for all IT staff to be remote and the companies that have come headhunting me recently have all offered full remote. This is for analytics work in hospital systems, they aren't exactly the most forward thinking orgs but even they are adopting WFH as a new normal for back office staff.
Truthfully, most roles advertised as data science in most corporations and Healthcare orgs are mostly just data wrangling for presentations or dashboard work.
You have plenty of skillset to get in the door at most places if you interview well. Your big problem will be weeding through the jobs to find one where you will really get to do data science working and not just write somewhat complex sql queries for people.
I worked for a company that did an SAP modernization project. The IBM consultants did a large part of converting all the custom ABAP stuff. The idea was to get back to as vanilla SAP as possible and included a ton of Business Objects and data warehouse work as well to convert old reporting etc.
They were constantly behind and decided to just push the load testing off the road map to hit the cio's arbitrary go live date. Within three days the data volume got large enough to grind the entire system to a halt and the company couldn't take, bill or fulfill orders. Of course the consultants were well out the door by that point. I spent months unwinding the stupid crap they did on the Business objects reporting side.
yeah, it just allows you to receive email from people who don't know their email address. I have my full name @gmail and constantly get folks who send stuff to first.last@gmail
Yeah, my mom (grew up in the rural south US) has told me multiple times about how her mom would heat bricks fro the beds each evening. They were very poor and had no central heat so wood stove, bricks, and multiple kids to a bed (there were 13 of them) was the go to winter strategy.
Also Midwest (Ohio) and I don't recall seeing a shortage on anything other than maybe during one of the first snows, which always happens because people are dumb.
Yeah the current spike is well over 100 more cases per day for my hospitals than either of the previous spikes. It's pretty nuts. That's a ton of additional inpatients.
Just looking at ICU doesn't tell the whole picture. Not all covid patients - confirmed or awaiting a test - are place in ICU. ICU beds are a fraction of the total. ICU and vent patients are obviously more likely to die but all those other covid positive patients are still in our hospitals.
My hospital now has more positive patients, and patients overall than we ever have in the entire pandemic - or any other time for that matter.
We just don't have the staff to maintain these sorts of levels long term, regardless of the beds we have.
We aren't necessarily crumbling but it's definitely getting harder and harder.
Most hospitals have been having back office folks re deploy to do the drudgery for months now. Lots of stuff like stocking rooms, bed setup etc.
Ohio has now drafted national gaurd units to help in our hospitals to pick up this slack as well.
None of these folks can do direct patient care stuff like blood pressure etc but they can and do pick up nearly everything else.
You are correct, in my hospital system beds haven't been an issue since the early days of covid. Staff is the big issue. We are consistently over 100% nurse utilization. Having an open bed is useless if we can't put you in it and subsequently take care of you in a timely manner.
early runs when I was doing c25k were like 45 minutes. My current runs are all 4 miles or more. Additionally there's usually 10 minutes of warmup/cooldown for each run. Also I'm very slow :)
Speaking specifically about android mobile I've found minimalist phone to be a really nice tool to cut down on jumping from app to app for hours. First, I just like the aesthetics of it as a launcher and second the built in nag warnings for timing specific app usage make you conscious of your consumption which I think is critical. Having that metric works a lot like tracking calories, it's hard to realize just how much you are consuming without some sort of tracking - at least it is for me.
The fact that it has no icons also helps, it makes it far more arduous to open apps that you might not use a ton or that you don't have a shortcut for in your home screen menu so you tend to start ignoring a lot of little time sinks.
Personally, I've started using Busuu and Duolingo more. When I get the urge to go to reddit I try to divert and go to one of those two apps and do a couple of sections. It doesn't always work but it's something.
I suppose there isn't really any way around it. It will probably also select for those who exercise more since they are more likely to have a stronger opinion on the subject. If you exercise a lot it likely has a strong net benefit for your life and you therefore value it to a greater extent than someone who doesn't exercise at all. By valuing it more you're more likely to engage in the subject. But that's probably true of all polls like this no matter the subject.
About 7 or 8 hours total, slowly creeping up as my half marathon training long runs start taking more time.
Prior to starting half marathon training it was right at 6 though. 3 x per week weight training and 3 x per week 5k training runs each of those ~1 hour.
Current schedule is
M/W 1 hour weight training
T/T/S/Su half marathon training with long runs on Saturday. Those are starting to get above an hour as the mileage increases. In another 3 weeks or so all my runs except Sunday will average above an hour more than likely so probably get into the 8-9 hours per week territory.
At 42 I'm now healthier than I've ever been. All that time in my 20's making excuses about how I didn't have time to lift/run whatever was BS. It's far easier than people think to get into very good shape. That hour or so per day is just one less hour dicking off on the internet or watching TV or something - you won't miss it.
Because our hospitals are over capacity - specifically well over 100% nurse to patient capacity - the guard members will likely be helping with all of the non-medical work nurses would normally do in non pandemic times. Stuff like cleanup, re-supply of rooms and supply closets, maybe some check in work that sort of thing.
In my hospital (located in Ohio), yes it's about that. We are seeing the overwhelming majority of deaths from unvaccinated individuals. I don't have the exact number in front of me but I believe before I logged off on Friday it was somewhere in the upper 90%s. Like basically every other hospital system in the state we've been above capacity for months.