Various Retailers are offering
Special Discounts as a
Thank You to
First Responders and Medical Professionals listed below when you verify your eligibility. Thanks OptimusPrimeAutobot
Example Deals:
- The North Face is offering 50% Off Non-Sale Items to Healthcare Workers.
- Included professions are: doctors, nurses, technicians, medical researchers, hospital workers.
- adidas.com is offering 40% Off to Verified Medical Professionals, First Responders, Nurses and Military Members
- Nike.com is offering a unique 20% Off Promo Code to Medical Professionals and First Responders.
- Reebok.com is offering 50% Off to Teachers, Nurses, Military Personnel, First Responders, and Government Employees.
- Headspace.com is offering Headspace Plus Meditation App Subscription for Free to US Healthcare Professionals who work in public health settings.
- Access lasts through 2020.
Top Comments
Things like this is where we can go home buy stuff we like and be like "yey some perks!"
Thanks for the companies and to people who dont go "OMG why are they getting discounts and not me!"
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Not cool Reebok, not cool...
Things like this is where we can go home buy stuff we like and be like "yey some perks!"
Thanks for the companies and to people who dont go "OMG why are they getting discounts and not me!"
Edit: for context, I'm a RN in NYC, been working 7 days a week, every week, 13-16 hours a day. In the last 10 weeks I've literally taken less than 7 breaks altogether, and NONE were an hour long. Actually had my first day off last week and it was tremendous.
Also, if you weren't trying to sound like a douche - you failed.
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I'm NOT an EMT, but a very close friend is- I've sent him some of the slickdeal posts related to deals/promo for first responders and he's very appreciative.
Timberland also offers 50% off, use sheerID like TNF as well, pretty good deal ends 6/30
Don't even try the adidas one. it sucks the deal, they jack up the price back to original and then offer u 40% off
Nike 20% is super good too, you can stack it and use on SALE items as well, and use it like 4x per month
Teachers, nurses, and many other professionals take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans and will NEVER make anything close to that...
And as we keep the residents from killing patients daily in the hospital nor will we... It's not always about the money, bc if it was I sure as hell wouldn't have become a Respiratory Therapist who BTW happen to be one of the lowest paid professions in most hospital systems and also don't qualify for most of the discounts.
My own facility rewards us so well that a brand new RN gets an extra week of vacation and about 10k a year more than a RRT... They're considered professionals and I am a 'technical' employee, whatever that means, I think it means that I am qualified to plug in something, and maybe I don't actually do patient care. I knew I've been doing something wrong all this time...
My apologies to all parties involved!
Everyone knew the type of training, work, salary and reputation they were going to face when they pursued their career. And most people who considered a healthcare profession considered becoming a nurse or doctor. If you felt nurses or doctors were being awarded more than they invested, why didn't you choose to become one? Most likely because of various lifestyle factors that made RT more appealing at the time - quicker training, lower initial investment, decent pay, better lifestyle. You chose that field. What's stopping you from becoming a doctor then or now? Too costly (both in tuition and opportunity cost), too much time, time away from family/friends, too much stress? That was the doctor's investment and the salary is their return on investment. For some, it rewards handsomely. For others, it's barely enough.
Indeed, you probably kept residents from "killing" (a handful of) patients. That's why they are in training and you are not. You went through training at one point too and someone probably stopped you from killing a patient. Your training is focused on the vent and what you have over your colleagues is that experience. Nurses and doctors have to balance a lot more tasks and take on significantly more responsibility, but don't think they can't do what you do if they also had more vent training. I think RTs should get more recognition during this pandemic and should qualify for these discounts, but if you feel like you got shafted in your career over your colleagues, become a critical care nurse or doctor and take on the additional responsibilities for your COVID patient. You too can administer their medications, manage their pumps, wipe them down, turn them, prone them, keep track of their diet, bowel movements and urine output, cannulate them, intubate them and run their code.
Is it worth it? If the answer is yes, then welcome as you embark on your journey to become a nurse or doctor and you'll understand how demanding it can be. If the answer is no, then you've determined the value in what they do.
The greater need for discounts is the 36 million Americans who are unemployed.
It would be so cool if a retailer said, show us your unemployment check and we'll give you 50% off.
Thank you for reading.
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Say what you want about corporate self serving, but TNF has won me back for the long term with this goodwill move.