Monkey Island Fan - IT Specialist, Developer, Nurse, Sports fan, Gamer, Indie Developer and Board Game Enthusiast.

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  • This is really what’s is beginning to bother me. I came from Reddit with the fuck-spez-wave searching for an alternative, and Lemmy somehow sounded interesting and a new way of doing things.

    I can live with the lag of content, that will come, but more and more it looks like every server is their own little community with whatever weirdnesses they have, and each one has a bunch of moderators, most good, some bad, but all doing what they think is best.

    When you’re just a mainstream user looking for content and debate, and take no interest in server drama, defederations and whatever, it’s all just unwanted noise and irritating.








  • I’m a nurse who quit nursing for IT a year ago.

    The nurse union is definitely not strong enough. But that has mostly to do with leadership than anything else. IMHO.

    No, nurses are not well paid if you only get the basic salary. But if you work evenings, night and weekend shift it can be quite ok. I was working four day weeks, only nights shifts. 30 hours a week. Got around 40.000 kr a month, which is not bad for nursing.

    Yes, the government did intervene in the latest conflict, as they have before. It takes some background knowledge to understand why and how they can do that, but though nurses weren’t satisfied, it didn’t spark an uproar or anything.

    There were perhaps a few tries to make illegal strikes, but dispite the unhappiness, most people are not willing to risk their jobs, I guess.

    No exodus either. Some go to Norway for a short period of time, but I have heard of large groups leaving the country over this.

    Most places in Denmark, not only nursing but most places I general, have agreements for calling in sick. You will get paid for all your days sick and no questions asked.

    I think “nursing is a calling” is a dead expression these days. But it sure used to be said, and I think it was taken advantage of in some negotiations in the early days. But then again, it used to be a calling and a way of living, devoting every waking hour to nursing, so perhaps it’s understandable, that the expression lived on for so many years.

    But no, not anymore.