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Yup. He's up to 11 pounds. They have to transfer him to another hospital for because the current hospital he's at cannot meet his complex needs.

The family is 100% responsible for the cost even tho the state forced them to keep that poor woman "alive" as a human incubator.

No news outlet is covering this, you know why? Because the fucking experiment on a black woman's body has FAILED miserably. The only updates are from grandma's go fund me. They let that woman die for a clump of cells (she was only 9 weeks pregnant at the time) that's not even doing ok 6 months later. 6 months is a long time to be in nicu!

Adriana Smith is her name. I am so sorry the state did this to you. You were a 30 year old nurse with a kid who was already here who needed you. The state failed you, the very hospital that you worked at who was so supposed to help you failed you... everybody failed you.

When i started as a dishwasher, i was trained by an old career dish pit man named Claudio. He'd spent his whole life washing dishes. It allowed him to move to just about any city in the world that he wanted to and get a job without having to deal with complex hiring processes or strict resumé requirements. Which was the main thing he wanted out of a career. I still think about him.

He'd seen a lot of people come through that station who either didn't consider it a real job or thought it was beneath them, on their way to "better" or "more important" things. And, in retrospect, those first two days he was sort of doing the minimum with me that he could do and still respect himself when he told the manager he'd trained me.

But, maybe it was because i was really interested in learning all the positions there were in a restaurant because i knew they were ALL important, or because i was a hard worker, or maybe it was because i tried to have real conversations with him in my broken spanish and did my best to not make him speak any english unless he wanted to, but after a couple days there was a big shift in the way he and i worked together, and he started to really teach me.

That place ran the dish pit with one dishwasher, so when he was done training me I was going to be doing the job on my own.

The thing that stuck with me the most, for the rest of my restaurant career, was this... and it wasn't just the actual things he was saying, but a completely new way of looking at what i was doing within the context of how the restaurant ran. I came in for my 3rd day and he said

"When you work alone, you want to go home by midnight?"

we clocked on at 3:30 and took a half hour lunch break and usually skipped our tens, so, yeah i absolutely did want to get off work by midnight

Then, even tho i already knew where most of everything was by that time, he took me around and showed me all the dishes, cups, pots and pans, spatulas, silverware, had me look at all of it. Then he told me to remember that almost every one of the dishes I was looking at would be used more than once by the end of our shift- we were clocking on to wash the entire building full of dishes multiple times.

Then he led me back over to the industrial dishwasher most restaurants have, which looks like this:

and then this 60 year old career dishwasher from Mexico City said the thing that changed how I looked at restaurant jobs forever

"This machine takes two full minutes to run a cycle. We are on the clock for 8 hours. That means we have a maximum of 240 times we can run this machine. If you want to wash all those dishes, clean your station, mop, and clock off by midnight? This machine has to be on and running every second of the shift.

If you don't have a full load of dishes collected, scraped, rinsed, stacked, and ready to go into the dishwasher the second it's done every single time? You can't do it. If, over the course of 8 hours, you let this machine lay idle for just one minute in between finishing each load and being turned on again? Instead of 240 loads, you'll do 160 loads.

[like, literally, he had done this math, he had these exact figures]

160 loads instead of 240 loads means you are doing 20 loads in an hour instead of 30 loads. That means the dishes are going to pile up. The cooks will run out of pots and pans and will have to stop and wait for you, the servers will run out of plates and cups and have to stop and wait for you, and your night is going to SUCK. Every part of how this restaurant works can grind to a halt because of that idle minute between dish loads, and if it does you'll have an entire building of people in a hurry and all waiting on you.

And it means you're going to be here until 2 am doing the 200+ loads of dishes this restaurant goes through every night.

For this to work, you MUST have this dishwasher on and running every minute of the shift. As soon as you turn it on you have two minutes to have the next load ready. See these large items i put to the side down here? One or two of them takes up all the space in the machine. I keep them here so that if the machine finishes and shuts off before i'm ready for it i can stick one of these in there and turn it on again immediately. You have to think like that to do this job without stress."

The way he was looking at how the whole restaurant ran, the way he was looking at how he'd spend each minute of the entire shift, the way he broke down what the physical limits were and how to max them out so he could do his job and go home on time without stressing out... The way this 60 year old guy, who had never had professional ambitions beyond being a dishwasher, was still such a competent and brilliant expert in his field.

It was all such an important lesson, and one that stayed with me through every position i went on to work in restaurants, dish pit, busser, server, cook, all the way up through manager before I finally got out of my restaurant career

Claudio never wanted to be anything but a dishwasher who didn't stay any later than he had to.

But he knew how that restaurant ran better than most of the other people in it. I never had a chance to truly thank him for the specific lesson he taught me, because while it had an immediate impact, I didn't really understand how valuable a lesson it was until much later.

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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Nesta hired a mercenary and walked two days in the snowy woods for Feyre. I wonder if Feyre ever mentioned that to Rhys. Nesta cared enough to tamper down her fresh trauma and helped with the Wall, went to CoN, swallowed her pride and went to represent her and Elain’s trauma in the high lords meeting, was ready to sacrifice herself for Cassian and cared about Azriel so much she demanded Cassian drop her in the bog and go after him. And most of all, Nesta did something that Feyre, Mor, Amren : the three high power ladies of Night Court’s government failed to do with such influence in court politics and power. She cared enough to bring a change to the women of the court. She told them symbolically to quit being reduced and labelled by what happened to them, instead to take charge and defend themselves. She might not be a high lady, but she checked all the boxes a high lady ought to be doing for her court.

And sometimes, Cassian needs to grow a pair and stand the fuck up for his mate. If the roles were reversed, brother or not, Rhys would mist everyone on spot for treating Feyre the way Nesta is being treated right now. Especially in Hofas when Nesta not just empathised but also analysed the potential of Bryce, brilliantly took a calculated decision that if the Asteri were to go undefeated in Midgard, they’d march right into her world and took a shot out of instinct and power. Like everyone does. But she was humiliated and threatened for doing so. I wonder if the roles were reversed, if Feyre was the one who handed over the Trove to Bryce, if Feyre took a decision by herself, would the IC and Rhys act the same way ? I sometimes wonder if they’re all threatened by Nesta and projecting their insecurities on her.