Little Things That Irk You IX

[charlesr]

I cleared the cache so should be fixed when logged out too now

[egparadigm]

I cleared the cache so should be fixed when logged out too now

Yeah can’t see those A’s any more! 👍🏻

Also great to have mobile emojis working, much easier than vb4.

[Lebowski]

The state the NHS is in only really becomes apparent when you have to use it. We have been at BRI hospital since about four this afternoon with a poorly 11 month old baby. we went the 111 route first getting an appointment with a gp. After seeing Gp we got moved into the A&E system as she needed to be seen by a Doctor.

We didn’t get out of the hell’s Scape that is A&E and up to the children’s ward waiting area until 10pm, at 1AM we where told she need to be kept in for observation and will need to have antibiotics via a drip.

They don’t have a bed for her so now where waiting for a hospital transfer at roughly 6AM to a hospital an hour and half away where they do have a bed for her.

Their is supposed to be 12 nurses on this ward their are 5, and their only seems to be one doctor too. their doing an amazing job but it’s massively apparent how under staffed and overwhelmed they are.

[Lebowski]

Back from the hospital and what an ordeal, we where transferred at 7am on Sunday morning to a hospital an hour and half away that did have a bed for out 10 month old baby. Once we got on a ward we couldn't fault the nurses and doctors and care she received was amazing and shes well on her way to making a full recovery. BRI is supposed to be the third busiest hospital in the UK and we found out from a nurse that it wasn't a lack of beds but more a lack of staff thats was why we where transferred, with only four nurses on they wouldn't of been able to look after any more patients safely and they where at capacity.

The stress it puts on staff and patients is really not on, and i can see why so many are leaving the profession heightening the problem, we really did a number on ourselves with Brexit we needed to be part of Europe as we need their nursing staff.

[fallenangle]

The staffing problems in hospitals was there 23 years ago and has little to do with Brexit although that certainly has not helped.

I could bore you with details but my experience as the nearest relative of a patient who was initially in intensive care is that when they were transferred to a general ward their life was twice put at risk because of the inadequate staffing during the night and at weekends. That is not hyperbole.

[Lebowski]

this article from a year ago shows how much staff was lost in the fallout from Brexit, interestingly it points to shortages of doctors supporting children's services which is exactly my experience this last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/27/brexit-worsened-shortage-nhs-doctors-eu

Brexit isn't the only issue stagnation of NHS wages that haven't kept up with the private sector and the mass amount of staff shortages are causing more and more people to leave the NHS. I'm absolutely fuming after this last weekend at the lack of care available, the only people to blame are the current goverment they are the ones that have spent 10 years running the service down and pushing in stealth privatization to line their own pockets. They are the ones refusing to even discuss pay rises for nurses and doctors.

[CMcK]

I had an operation five years ago and only one of staff I spoke to was Scottish. The rest were from EU countries and one from South Africa. I wonder how many of them are still there?

[fuse]

Tax returns.

[CMcK]

Ordered a load of Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs for the Duo arriving. Went up the loft to put some stuff away and found an unopened spindle of blank CDs…

[wakka]

Oops!

If the ones you found aren't Taiyo Yudens though, it's still a worthy purchase. They are a real cut above. I hadn't burned CD-Rs for years when I first got my chipped Saturn a few years back, and started burning games using some Verbatims I had lying round. SO unreliable - the FMVs at the start of games, in particular, would jerkily skip pretty much every time.

After a bit of research I remembered Taiyo Yudens, and bought a massive spindle of them - which I'm still working my way through - and all my unreliability and skipping woes vanished immediately.

[Hirst]

Oh, Taiyo Yudens are available? I remember the last time I tried to locate them a few years ago, nobody seemed to stock them. Now eBay and places are awash with them - good to know!

[wakka]

I've always been vaguely worried about them vanishing. I had to get mine off some obscure site a few years back. Good to hear that they seem to be back in production.

[Hirst]

Here's my irk of today/yesterday - Microsoft Office has changed the default font to Aptos. I never asked it to, I never wanted it to, it's just something they've rolled out. I honestly hate the MS Office suite of today - and to some extent Windows itself - constantly moving stuff around and making minor changes without me asking. The last time I needed to make a pie chart, the whole layout of the charts browser was different. Just leave it all alone! I'm at work, I don't want anything moving around, spending all this time having to figure out what's changed and why it's moved and why it all looks wrong. It's like somebody going on my desk and shifting all my stuff around. Does my head in.

[CMcK]

Windows has been way beyond an irk for decades.

[briareos_kerensky]

Here's my irk of today/yesterday - Microsoft Office has changed the default font to Aptos. I never asked it to, I never wanted it to, it's just something they've rolled out. I honestly hate the MS Office suite of today - and to some extent Windows itself - constantly moving stuff around and making minor changes without me asking. The last time I needed to make a pie chart, the whole layout of the charts browser was different. Just leave it all alone! I'm at work, I don't want anything moving around, spending all this time having to figure out what's changed and why it's moved and why it all looks wrong. It's like somebody going on my desk and shifting all my stuff around. Does my head in.

It's like when Adobe changed the shortcut for proportional resize in Photoshop from shift+drag to just drag, shift+drag would do free resize instead. They did the switch a few years ago and still drives me crazy to this day, especially because Photoshop is the only program in the entire Creative Cloud to do this.