14 pregnant nurses and one glistening “Fertility Doctor” who just roams around the halls in an open bathrobe chugging orange juice straight out of the container.
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The container being a 20 gallon bag that thw distributor uses to restock the vending machines in a municipality
I was going crazy going 'shit, i KNOW i read this before, it cannot be a 2025 article...'
Vindication!
https://abc7ny.com/nurses-nurse-pregnant-nyu-winthrop-hospital-in-mineola/5235663/
So this isn't even a record!
Man that must have been one fun orgy
for fuck sake
And all 14 going for a 1 year paid maternity leave at same time. Fun time for those at work 😜
paid maternity leave
Let me guess.... you're from Europe...
Yeah, I work for a hospital system in the states. We do have paid maternity leave, but it's to the tune of 2 weeks, not a whole year
Most women aren't even fully healed by two weeks, either.
No one heals in full on capitalism
I was thinking what a nightmare it would be to replace them temporarily.
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90 days, if they're lucky. Probably more like 2 weeks.
Vermont has 1 year paid maternity leave?
It doesn't? No idea, but I'd expect developed country like USA to have paid maternity leave
Unfortunately you are horribly mistaken. 
It's not mandated by law but a hospital almost definitely has it.
I also would have expected a hospital to offer some of the best health insurance in the country - I was agast when my wife got a job and we realized it was trash tier compared to her major corporation retail job she had previous to that. So yes, maybe - but I don't think it's a given or a safe assumption by any means.
Oh my fucking god, truly a shit hole country like the us pres said
Even fathers get 8 weeks nowadays in my country.
That may be federal, but some states (and i do mean some) have something called FMLA provided by the state. The one I am in guaranteed you 8 weeks and I believe it was just raised to 12 weeks. Granted it's not great because it's a lot of paperwork, you don't get paid right away, you won't make what you did if you were working, and not all the weeks are payable! But you are allowed this if you want it and your job can't fire you. If your job is good enough, which normally they are, you can combine the state time off with your jobs time off to add on an extra month or 2. My wife's a teacher so she did this and used all the sick time and vacation time she had saved over the years to take an extra few months on top of FMLA so she was able to have our kid in December and take the rest of the school year off from January to June then get summer break and return in sept. So still not a year, but 9 months wasn't bad either. I on the other hand got 2 weeks and our 2nd kid I took 3 weeks of vacation. Sadly everyone's experience is different and you won't know what you will have because it's up to the state and job which is stressful on its own. Most places from what I have seen with friends are not trying to screw you, but I would say the average I've seen people take is 1 month.
Edit: so I just looked and since it's been a few years since I have last needed it i haven't followed it. Looks like FMLA has spread to more states and looks like about 12 (mostly blue states of course) now have this at the state level. https://onpay.com/insights/paid-family-leave-by-state/
Just an FYI, the FMLA itself does not pay you. It only protects your job so you cannot lose it or be replaced while out on leave.
Also, FMLA is federal (for now anyway). The article is about paid family medical leave in some states, which they abbreviate PFML.
Most companies offer paid maternity leave. Lower hourly would mostly be the exception to that.
Sadly there isn't a minimum set by law.
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US is the richest 3rd world country.
"3rd world country" just means that the country wasn't aligned with either USA or USSR during cold war. Don't use it when you mean poor or developing countries.
Doing that can range from just incorrect to even insulting to some people
I think he just wants to be insulting.
Oh you sweet summer child… got some news for you….
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Caption: “we’re all looking for the guy who did this”
“Every 10 seconds, somewhere in the world, a baby is born. Your mission is to find this woman and stop her.”
Sources report that the tall dark and handsome radiologist is shitting himself.
It's always the radiologist.
“Yeah, we had a fun holiday work party, pretty normal. We didnt go that crazy.” - To their husbands/bfs when arriving home at 3am with tossled hair.
Y'all need to stop sending this article to my wife. I just clean the floors there.
There’s a similar situation at my wife’s work. She’s one of nine to be pregnant, all on the same unit. At my work, there’s three of us who are either pregnant or whose wife is pregnant. All pregnancies, both at her work and mine, are due at around the same time.
Ah life path number 3 combo for the Midwest woman. Become a nurse and have children.
Personally I'm bias, I saw four (women) friends either drop out of college, or get pregnant early, or one was convinced to give up her career by her future husband, all to drop in the fallback of nursing and then each have like 3 kids. They all live within 20 miles of where they were born and none of them followed through twitch the dreams they had. So I see this and my heart sinks remembering that, and wondering about them
Were they all working on the same floor?
On the same doctor...
Who let Doctor Hamster into the female nurse enclosure?
It was one hell of an office Christmas party.
Unless there are 3 of them hiding behind that machine, that looks like 11 to me?
That was a fun stay at hospital that week.
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