AA costs money?
I kicked my my cat yesterday. Any of the fine upstanding highly moral citizens here want to report me to the authorities?
Actually, the widdle kitty ambushed me while I was walking by.
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I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, but I figure he’s talking about gas/bus passes/missed work if necessary/etc. Or he might have been talking about a rehab center, which may cost money if you want the really nice care and medical attention or something.
My apologies. I shouldn’t use the name of a real organization generically. It was a counseling service, but not AA specifically.
And they probably would have paid the counseling service big bucks to…send the guy to AA. I remember a guy who’d paid a rehab 10K back in the mid-'80s; all they did was send him to four AA meetings a week. It was pointed out to him that for the four-week “program” they offered, at the typical AA meeting donation of $1 per meeting, he could have saved himself $9,984.
But back to the OP. (Remember the OP?) Last office I worked in had two women who’d been there for years, who would makebefriend new young employees and then, as soon as they had enough evidence, ran tattling to the office manager to get said employees fired. It was appalling. The turnover at that place was unbelievable; the ones those two bitches didn’t get fired left because we were sick to death of dealing with them. And the office manager who encouraged them.
As Qadgop says, showing up for work after even a single drink is completely unacceptable in our field. A couple of drinks at lunchtime wouldn’t matter for me 99% of the time, as most of my day is pretty mundane, but I never know when that one time is that I’m going to be called on for a life and death decision.
Then again, this is the same profession that complains loudly about limiting residents to thirty-hour shifts, despite the data showing similar levels of impairment between people awake for 24 hours and people over the legal alcohol limit.
As for me, personally, I know that I have far less presence of mind and decision-making capacity after I’ve been up and working for 24 hours than I would after a couple of beers. And yet, I’d never dream of showing up for work after a couple of beers, but I worked countless thirty-hour shifts during my residency (and even longer when I was an intern, before the limits were imposed).
And yes, the woman who turned the OP in is a busybody who needs to mind her own damn business.
Yow! We were paying $50 a week for the program we sent this guy to.
Shifts are limited to 24 hours, unless you are tracking a specific patient. Then you can put in your extra 6 drunken hours.
Well, to a certain extent it’s a case of “you get what you pay for”. I’d imagine the $50 a week program consists of a single weekly after-hours meeting, while the $10,000 program was an inpatient psych hospital (or similar) situation.
Actually, as I recall, the guy complained that the only constructive thing the 10K program did was send everyone to four AA meetings a week. That was back when insurance companies would actually pay for inpatient alcohol treatment, however, so it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was mostly designed as a money grab.
Unless it has changed in the ten months since I finished residency, you can be on active call for 24 hours (accepting new patients), with an additional six hours for follow-up, educational, etc. purposes. So in effect, it’s a 30-hour shift.