I have similar conversations with student nurses when they come to psychiatry about how to (informally) calculate risk when making decisions like how close to stand to someone or whether or not you can go into a patient’s room alone. My one-liner is “don’t be scared, never be stupid.”
First of all, we’ve got a bunch of highly unpredictable people, but 7-11 often has a similar quantity, and at least on the psych unit you can be around 99.9% that they don’t have a gun or even a knife. They might not be kittens, but you don’t have to treat them like rabid bears, either. Well. Most of them anyway, and I’d tell you if we had one at that time.
It also helps when you’re dealing with a high violence patient to take account of all their strengths and weaknesses. Back when I was a sitter I had a patient who was delirious from low oxygen but kept trying to clock me every time I tried to get the O2 cannula back on, but also was too weak from the low oxygen to even sit up. So I just backed off to the foot of the bed and phoned the assigned nurse and just explained what was up and that I needed a second set of hands (to hold his until we got the O2 back up enough for him to listen to reason). She walked right past me and almost got decked and the conversation went more or less:
“oh shit, he’s really aggressive”
“yeah, that’s what I said”
“you sounded so calm though!”
“…well he can’t get me over here!”
I had a similar conversation much later in my career about a patient who was trying to break my fingers but lacked the strength to even do that. When the other nurse expressed concern that he was trying to hurt me all I could think to say in that moment was,“…he’s not very good at it.”
It’s the same when you’ve got a super violent patient in ambulatories. They’ll be ready to beat the shit out of you but if their feet are tied together by a 6 inch strap you can just walk away from that ass-kicking at a leisurely pace, that’s the point of the restraints. Just make sure they’re on right and you won’t have any problems.
Also statistically speaking people with mental illness are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, but that’s a whole different discussion.
The one benefit Arch has for me (even though I no longer use it as I found I’m not too fond of rolling releases), is that the AUR with an AUR helper takes care of getting any Linux packages installed. No need to copy commands off a github repo or something like that.
I did. Back in the old days we had phones connected to wires called land lines. The phones were controlled by shitty companies similar to cell service providers or cable companies (almost as archaic as land lines).
I was having trouble getting my land line up and running after a move. A bad day at work, money trouble, and a phone that still wouldn’t work, set me off. I totally lost my shit on a poor, under paid rep. I mean, I went off. It was brutal. I think I made her cry. The people in the room I was in (rental office at the new apartment complex) all left the room.
After a solid 2 or 3 minutes of me just ripping into this innocent person, I caught myself. I realized what I was doing mid-rant and just stopped. I sort of gasped and said “oh god. What the fuck is wrong with me?” or something similar out loud. I spent the next couple of minutes apologizing and telling this person how big a shit head I was being. I admitted that I had crossed a line, commended them on their professionalism, and took full responsibility for making this their problem when it clearly wasn’t. I was sincere and I was honest. I told her that she should hang up on me and make a note in my file that I’m a problem. I also said that I’d never yell at a rep like that again. And humbly asked if ther was anything she could do to help me. She did. She solved whatever bullshit problem there was and was so rad to me.
She went so far above and beyond after I treated her like shit. That was close to 30 years ago and I still have never even raised my voice to a rep since. As bad as some places are, as poorly trained as some reps are, even as shitty as some reps are, I’ll never forget how rotten a person I was in that moment. I don’t want to be like that. That’s not the kind of world I want to live in. And frankly, fuck a dude that would talk to me like that.
Honestly, exploring the city on foot is pretty fun. I did a lot of my early game traveling on foot, just soaking everything in. You see a lot of neat details you would otherwise miss by driving.
As you explore more of the map, there are fast travel waypoints that make travel easy.
Some cars handle better than others, and eventually you get somewhat accustomed to it. Motorcycles have the best handling in the game though, and I prefer to use them over cars.
Enjoy the game. It’s got it’s flaws but imho it’s great.
I came here to say Zathura (I’ve been actively using it for the last few days going through K&R C for university) but I see everyone else is saying it too. The “d” key will give you dual pane mode iirc. And what I also do is I use “s” to make the pdf match the window width rather than height and then use Capital H and L to read the top and bottom of the pages, and Capital J and K to go to the next 2 pages.
Yes, you are missing the fact that it’s mostly not people making Archlinux their personality, but people making meme’ing about “Archlinux users” their personality. For the vast majority it’s just an OS.
Those stupid kiosks are the worst. And I ly there so they do t have to give another teenager minimum wage for taking orders, it’s not for our convenience at all.
Yep, but i felt really bad afterwards. Purchased tickets on American airlines on short notice due to the death of my wife’s close aunt. The trip had a connecting flight and our first flight got delayed by an hour (np plenty of layover time left). then when we land the plane taxied for over an hour giving us about 10 panicking minutes to make the connection, but if we ran we could make it.
we didn’t, The terminal was much farther than expected. in the rush, my wife lost her ID, which added to further frustration. maintaining decent composure up until we go to the AA desk to schedule our alternative flight. The flight we were supposed to go on was the last flight for the day. and the next one wasn’t until next day evening.
well that was not going to work because the funeral was in the morning. We asked if we could fly to another city (equidistant to rural home) but the clerk was really firm on that the flight had to be to my destination. after all, our bags made it there.
that was what cocked the hammer back for me. I asked to speak with someone higher and they gave me a number, and boom i was pretty irked and very rude to the service rep who had the patience of a saint. She did get us on the soonest flight to the other city. My wife was crying with relief and i was sobbing my gratitude and apologizing for my behavior. the Service rep brushed it off like it was business as usual and tells me to have a nice flight.
Aside from having to go purchase new clothes at 1am, we made it to the service a few hours later.
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