attrezzo
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Well there is more to the story, just didn’t want to write an autobiography.
The short end of it is my wife is an ER doc.
I know the last few years have been hard for everybody but I imagine only those with spouses in ER or ICU had to worry about “aerosolizing procedures” and your pregnant wife, disposable n95s in take home doggie bags put into service for a week, or seriously deciding to bifurcate your house with plastic sheeting to make sure she could have plausible deniability if one of the rest of us got sick cause she went to work…
So there was a part of this in 2020 that was hope that when we accepted delivery we’d have something to celebrate other than just the end of the pandemic.
We needed something capable of towing 10k ~100mi one way 4X a year minimum. Originally that’s what pushed me into going all the way up to lariat. It was the only way to get there when I ordered.
The first strategy was to get the extended battery with tow package in the cheapest trim and keep it forever. (Autopilot is cool but I don’t think ford knows software well enough to pull that off. Frankly it’s the biggest risk of the project.)
When order time came we ended up having to pay more than we wanted but I saw the options plan as a way to wiggle out. The thought was, with the last 3 years the one thing wifey has is job security. There are certainly plenty of patients to see.
Then right before Christmas we learn her group’s contract is under review. The hospital big wigs heard from Bloomberg that there’s an “ER doc surplus” and figure they should be getting a better deal.
The thing is there’s a DR surplus compared to the number of ER positions open. Apparently patient need, wait times, and quality of work life aren’t considered in that algorithm.
After a few days of digging around or area there are plenty of other places hiring but the work is excruciatingly shitty. 24hr shifts, much less pay, etc.
I hear people “boo hoo you get paid so much deal with it” all the time. Yeah, pretty sure everyone has their limit. If you had to dress up in full ppe 10hrs a day doing shift work where every patient is hoping you miss something so they can sue. No sick time, no vacations, no holidays, No pee breaks, no lunch. The argue with literally every other dumbass Dr Google about vaccination or whether you know what you’re talking about you’d see how it’s too much.
She didn’t draw the line at that stuff. She drew it at 24hr shifts and dumping patients on her that should be in an ICU or somewhere else. Cause those are the things that get your license taken away when you screw up.
Anyway, I told her to leave that bullshit and let it burn. Which means an uncertain future and a paycut.
So as I was looking at delivery start in late December I knew this might be the last year we could claim it, but maybe, like others I talked to, we could do a lease, ask the dealer to put the 7500 credit they kept toward that, and put in enough of a down payment to get to the yearly mileage we’d want.
So when the 7500 was rug pulled at $80k I was scrambling to find a way to keep it and feel like it would be worth the stress of paying for it through this next phase of horseshit.
Ended up buying a Ram 1500 ecodiesel today.
maybe in 4 years :-/
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