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CDC Says Most HIV Patients Don't Have Infection Under Control
This is a REALLY irresponsible article.
1. HIV =/= AIDS. Having HIV doesn't mean you're sick in bed dying emaciated covered in scabs. HIV means the virus is in you, and whether it takes effect is a matter of time, body maintenance, and genetics.
2. HIV meds have come a long way, but controlling the viral load and keeping up the immune system is still a situation of the treatment being worse than the disease. People diagnosed with HIV today can expect to live decades. The meds have horrible side effects. Many people go out on disability for the TREATMENTS, not the disease.
3. Many people feel they'd rather live a normal life, work, be an active member of their families, and experience life as a healthy person, rather than be disabled before their HIV has even risen to life-affecting levels. It's a choice: do you want live a long, sick, disabled life, or a short, happy life and kill yourself when you get sick at ... well, who knows? It's a roll of the dice if the HIV virus presents at 30, 40, 50, or never.
Should Employees Be Paid For Time It Takes To Change Clothes?
For the "can they were them at home?" crowd: this sounds like the kind of hospital where you are absolutely banned from taking scrubs home, and doing so constitutes stealing office equipment.
Yes, they should get paid, this is startup time.
How Deep Does A Discount Have To Be For Before You Call It A "Good Deal?"
"If it's not 50% off, it's not on sale." - Nanny Fran. Otherwise, they're just marking up the cost to pretend it's on sale.
20-30% off is just a couple dollars.
Wall Street Bonuses Take A Nosedive
I wouldn't call 20-30% a "nosedive," not when the 1% is still treating Occupy like a joke, in public, at their parties and shindigs.
Good Night, Sony Dream Machine
I didn't realize how familiar these are until I looked at the link and realized either I had owned, or a cousin had, or a grandparent, or a shore house, or a BFF (who got the pink one w/ the tape deck, bitch), or a college roommate who wouldn't shut the fucking thing off -- almost every single model on the page. Those clocks were pretty much the sleepover DJ's of choice when I was growning up, the source of Quiet Riot or Lovelines at 1 am.
A Checklist For Quitting Your Job
What the hell can you do in 15 minutes?? I spend 5-8 hours on my days off looking, applying, calling, emailing, working on my portfolio. 1 year, 3 months unemployed or underemployed.
A Checklist For Quitting Your Job
Dude. IN WRITING is not the time to make your big finale. Your resignation letter is a formality they put in your file for legal purposes. It should be three sentences long:
"Dear Boss, I regret that I will be resigning due to taking a position that I find more suited to my career goals. Thank you for [something about learning stuff and your boss's great leadership.] My final day will be [date]."
You don't put ANYTHING important in writing, including not going goddamn crazy. All quitting debates happen VERBALLY. And THEN you get your boss to sign off on your last day.
A Checklist For Quitting Your Job
The two times I was fired, it was on the phone, when I was home, before going into work. I give as little notice as possible for shit jobs. I ... hae never quit a good job b/c i've never had a good job.
A Checklist For Quitting Your Job
Stock up your pantry with cans of things you can make filling meals out of. Buy fixings for baked goods, marshmallows, semi-sweet morsals b/c you won't be able to afford packaged sweets. Fill your freezer. Buy boxes of pasta, ramen, easy meals for when you don't feel like cooking. Popcorn is a meal. Crackers, peanut butter, blocks of cheese, hummus, canned tomatoes, tortillas you can keep in the freezer are items that can greatly vary your menu. If you only use milk for your coffee, it's expensive, so switch to powdered creamer. Go near-vegetarian, eat more eggs, eat red meat only a few times a week. Learn to make meals you like with canned beans.
Don't join a warehouse club, it isn't worth it; but if you have kids, find a friend who has joined and pay him to go shopping with him.
The average length of unemployment, what's it up to? Over a year? Might as well get in your application for food stamps and any other social services as soon as you quit, and make sure you get a separation from employment letter. If they say no, keep calling until they say yes.
BTW if you're quitting b/c you just cn't take it one more second, I hope you documented all horrible incidents and backed them up on google docs, email, dropbox, etc. You'll get up the energy to deal with a lawsuit or the dpt of labor when the weeks of unemployment stretch on.
If you're looking for something to do, go find your nearest Occupy movement. They need your help and you can probably volunteer on a Committee and do something that will pad your resume. Call yourself a "community organizer."
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The Dollar Menu McDonald's And Taco Bell Don't Want You To Know About
Can you eat them on the go in 15 minutes with no preparation? Poor people eat cheap because shit jobs give you half an hour lunch. That's 15 minutes to go somewhere and get back, get served, leaving 15 minutes to eat. If you have shit to do in the morning and night (other job, school, kids, family, commute), you don't have time to pack a lunch with $1 ingredients. So, McDonalds.
That's what I'm doing today, because I work in a horrid part of town that doesn't have any grab and go places that are as cheap as Burger King. And even if I could afford a real resturant, it takes 20 minutes to get your food, I don't have a car, and I get 30 minutes for lunch.