Coffee Break: Beaded Chunky Necklace
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I was excited to see that this necklace is a bestseller at J.Crew — personally I was never a fan of the “tiny dainty necklace” era.
I'm featuring the gray because it was the only color shown on a model, but it also comes in green, burgundy, light blue, red, navy, and black. I feel like the black one would be a lovely basic, but any of the other ones would be great for a pop of color above a crewneck or peeking out from an open collar.
The necklaces are $49.50-59.50 at J.Crew.
Sales of note for 8/14:
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- Anthropologie – Extra 40% off sale!
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From the morning thread: people are really bringing gifts to the hospital with them?
I get the person who brought food for a prolonged thing like ongoing cancer treatment. There, you have a bit of a relationship with the people. At a hospital, you don’t really pick the place (even for a planned birth — I was told that my OB practice delivered at hospital A, so A it was). How soon will it be until we are a third world country where we have to tip police and bring our own medical supplies to the hospital because I want a clean, new suture, not a new-to-me suture?
[Oddly, as a retiree, I plan to bring tons of “better” prepackaged food items to our ER because ER staff and the ambulances and fire companies who bring people in are often really scrambling for food and a lot of what they eat is not good food and EMTs in my area are criminally underpaid).]
Nope. I’m a public servant and people should be allowed to do their jobs without being endlessly thanked. If you build a relationship you want to honor, great, but otherwise, inappropriate.
Yes, people do this. No, not everyone. Of those who do it, some make a big performative Insta about it, and others just bring a tin of energy bars or something else equally low-effort, relatively speaking.
Not following your distinction of birth / not ‘picking the place’ – you know you’re going to *a* hospital at some point and you know which one it will be.
You pick the place, but hospital providers flow through 24/7, so you aren’t really picking or having a relationship with THE providers that you have (my labor spanned two shifts; at 7am, the overnight nurse said she’d be going off shift and someone else would be signing on and my mind was blown at how wildly different my job is because I just can’t hand things over mid-task ever and that is how a hospital needs for things to happen every single day). For an oncology practice, you are only going in daylight and seeing the people who work there every time you go unless they are on vacation (from all of the cancer patients and families I know). It’s like I have a relationship with my dentist and his staff but it’s because I choose to go there on repeat for decades; births are really not like that.
people bring enough for both the day and night staff to get a treat, if they’re doing this for a birth. It’s just a little thank-you for the people that are caring for you, not an assumption you’ll have a long-term relationship with any particular nurse, etc.
I missed the morning thread, but I’ve taken treats to hospital staff twice. One was staff in the hospital-based hospice floor where my grandmother died about 24 hours after being moved there. I was with her overnight and when she died. The other was to the staff of the cancer unit where my mom was treated repeatedly before she died. In both cases it was more about me, and my wanting to share how much the experience meant to me and how important the staff were to our family, than about feeling I had to repay the staff in some way.
I am the morning thread poster; I’m primarily bothered by bringing in treats *before* anyone has provided any care. Sending treats after is a thank-you; bringing treats before seems problematic on a number of levels.
I didn’t bring it to the hospital with me, but I brought it after I was discharged. My L&D nurses stayed 4 hours beyond their shift and were part of the team that saved my life while I delivered my son, and I brought each of them $1k in case as a thank you the following week. I will be forever thankful for each of them, who were really my stewards through that whole terrifying process, and it felt like a small thing I could do to show my gratitude.
*in a card — sorry typo
Giving people $1k each for doing their jobs feels condescending and performative.
+1 – I believe as much as the next person that nurses (like teachers) are seriously underpaid, but I also am firmly against this type of behavior.
I live in the Bay Area, which has some of the highest nursing salaries in the country, and the starting (yes, starting) salary is $150-160K at the area’s major hospitals. That doesn’t include overtime. I do think it’s underpaid relative to the skill and importance, but it’s a far cry from the situation facing teachers and social workers.
It sounds like they didn’t just do their job; they stayed past their shift.
Then they get paid overtime.
I think this is far too much money, even for the circumstances described. In that situation (where staff went above and beyond), I think handwritten thank-you notes are the most meaningful, plus sending a letter to management praising specific staff members for use in future performance reviews. I’m sure others will disagree but $1000 each is something I’ve never heard of.
Is it even permissible for them to accept this money? I’m not allowed to accept outside income for the job I’m already paid to perform.
As a nurse, I can tell you we are not allowed to accept money from patients. Everything is pooled for the unit- they should not have accepted that from you or once they realized, had the hospital return it. It probably went to the hospital instead of to the direct staff. Don’t tip professionals.
Wow, this seems shockingly unethical. I would be really surprised if they were allowed to keep it. That has to be against hospital and professional policy.
I think this is really lovely.
I’m pregnant for the first time and was shocked to learn some people do this. If gifts upon arrival at the hospital become expected, am I going to receive subpar medical care if I opt out? If gifts after delivery are expected, how TF will I have time to do this when I’m recovering from a medical event and caring for a newborn?
Tipping culture is out of control but it’s especially harmful in this context. Maternal care is low quality and expensive enough in the US. The last thing women need is a gift basket arm’s race. I get the commenter below meant well by tipping her nurses $1k each but consider what type of expectation this sets.
I also think this is wishful thinking. If I “curate” my birth and bring treats for the staff it will be a life affirming experience and nothing can/ will go wrong …. A way to make everything perfect at a time you’re least in control of what happens.
No. I’m a nurse who has worked in L&D. If a patient’s family brings in coffee or bagels, it’s nice but honestly a lot of times the nurses bring their own food and don’t eat it. We absolutely do not treat someone differently because of bringing or not bringing items. My parents have been hospitalized several times- I never once brought food in. However I DO make sure to be courteous, try to stay out of their way in the room, and say thank you. Trust me we get yelled at constantly by patient family members and other staff. If someone is just nice, treats us professionally. and says thank you, we’re happy.
What would you do? We have a vacation planned at the end of the month/start of September to go to San Juan to stay in a nice hotel/resort. There is apparently a big water shortage and water rationing in PR right now. Hotel has their own water cistern and should have water but the whole thing feels like a messy situation and a nest of potential issues, never mind the ethics of staying a fancy hotel and using water when everyone around has it shut off. I can only get a 75% refund if I cancel, but that does mean around $1500 out of pocket. Traveling with kids.
I’d cancel.
I’ve never been a fan of chunky necklaces like this. I prefer there be some space in between, otherwise it feels so dense around the neck. My favorite pearl necklace has some wire wrapping to break up each pearl.
I love it. It is certainly small compared to the chunky kitchy necklaces of the past.
I want a Nancy Pelosi pearl game. Where can I get that, but in freshwater pearls, probably baroque.
I’ve purchased a few things from Pearl Paradise. Prices for necklaces range from $330 to $168k, so there’s pretty much something for everyone.