Lilith

It’s all in effort of “line goes up” in the immediate short-term despite the fact that a year from now these companies are going to struggle to complete difficult projects. My company has layed off a number of 10, 15, 20+ year veterans because they were highly paid. Now there are gaps in knowledgeable folks to tap for help and Juniors are being forced to perform to a Senior level without proper support.

The pandemic growth periods caused every company to loose their damn mind to make growth projections based on those insane numbers for a time that should have been ruled out as an outlier. I know these MBA fucks had to take a business stats class, but literally dropped the fundamentals when they saw big $$$. Now they’re cutting the talent that fostered their primary growth and will be looking back 6 months from now wondering why they still aren’t growing. Well surely the Juniors aren’t working hard enough!

Fucking hell, I’ve literally had to do the same thing when I was experiencing chest pain and heart palpitations! My husband thought I was nuts for putting on makeup and donning “business wear” before he took me to our local urgent care, but I did so I wouldn’t be dismissed due to having anxiety on my records. I knew myself what I was feeling wasn’t anxiety, but if I looked in anyway or shape or form as an “anxious woman” I wouldn’t be taken seriously. I even had to specify we needed to go to the one location that was further away due to their closer location dismissing me for a different issue that was properly looked into at this preferred location.

I was lucky to be listened to in that situation, got an EKG, and a referral out to a cardiologist; but that only happened because I had a younger doctor who wanted to rule out all possibilities. A few months previously I was dealing with numbness in one of my legs and the other urgent care I wanted to avoid literally sent me out the door after looking at me for 10 minutes and doing a leg stretch. The issue persisted and it wasn’t until I went to this same second location that someone actually ran some blood work on me and referred me for an ultrasound on my leg. It just shouldn’t be that hard to be properly treated when both of these experiences revealed issues that needed to be treated.

While it’s a win to see this pushed forward, it really sets a tone of how little attention is given towards women’s healthcare that it requires an Executive Order to make it a priority. It’s 2024 and yet I have seen online forums sharing advice on how not to be dismissed by doctors for years because of how prevalent of an issue it is. That it’s far easier for a doctor to label something as anxiety or normal because there isn’t enough information for it and they can’t be bothered to look beyond what isn’t understood. Women have been dying for years because of this lack of care and investigation; it’s why cervical cancer is a silent killer. If you’re a minority, this is even worse.

I really hope this research encourages a new generation of doctors to be more familiar with women’s health issues and to be less dismissive of us when we reach out for medical help. I’m tired of the mental weight of hoping I’m listened to by a doctor and having to treat a doctors visit as a dissertation just to be taken seriously.

Additionally, it’s really disturbing how many gynos are convinced the cervix can’t feel pain and the very biopsies intended to save our lives are done without anesthetic too often than not. Seriously, what the hell? Is this some outdated medical knowledge steeped in punishing the original sin of Eve? Maybe if these docs took a bite of that apple too, we wouldn’t be here.

This feels like the AI equivalent of men telling female workers to smile more. I’m totally sure that bias wasn’t cooked into these algorithms. Honestly, how is this not profiling for neurodiverse individuals?

Many others have mentioned an internship is meant for you to learn, but the job posting reads as if you already need years of experience. If you haven’t done so already, report the posting as fraudulent if you’re able too. This is flat-out farming for free work by taking advantage of students. See if your college/university has a career center or any resources connecting with companies that recruit from your school. Those connections would be more reliable than shady startups.

Any interview process that asks for this level of work from a take hone project is a redflag for abuse. It tells me they will literally do any incredulous thing just to keep costs low.

Buzzwords sell. It’s the same shit in corporate America when they went bonkers for blockchain a few years ago, only to have all that money thrown into “research” flushed down the toilet. Like gee that money should have gone into a higher corporate tax payout versus a fancy headline for shareholders.

Same thing here, but with politicians wanting something buzzy for their next election.