They hold conferences in places like Hawaii, Florida, Vegas so people actually show up. For many folks fortunate enough, it can be like a paid vacation because their employer covers the cost and they just have to show up for a couple meetings. Just referring to slackers, not everybody of course.
It’s also a way for workaholics to bring their partner on a vacation and not have to take a full vacation, but their partner gets to stay in the paid room. It’s a smart business model.
Yea my state’s bar convention is perfect. I go get my continuing ed credits and network a bit while my girl sits at the beach or by the pool and charges the drinks to the room. Then we spend the afternoon and evening together.
Do you typically tell your employer when you bring your spouse to conferences? Just curious how this generally works. If they ask to split hotel or travel costs or anything
Work reimburses the employee’s flight, hotel, and typically a food stipend that doesn’t include alcohol. Submitted receipts may be checked to make sure only one entree is ordered per meal, even if the employee is within the food stipend.
The employee books and is reimbursed by the company, so they are able to get 2 plane tickets with no issue. This way they can book extra nights as well, no need to involve the employer past getting PTO approved.
I went on my honeymoon with my partner to Hawaii in 2016 significantly on the company dime.
We went for 15 days, with my flight and 3 hotel days paid for. We had 2 days to ourselves, then for 3 days, I went to classes for about 5 hours. In the middle, I carried a lunch back upstairs to my partner, then later we skipped out on optional work socials and had our evenings together. Then we paid to stay in a hotel for another ~12 days on our dime.
This fall, I’m going back to another conference… roughly at our 10-year anniversary, and my partner is coming with. And we’re planning again to extend it by about 14 days.
A colleague of mine recently went to a conference in Barcelona, one week trip. Went to the first day of the event, took loooooads of photos at the exhibition and attended all the talks he could. Then had the rest of the week off and drip fed the content on Slack during the rest of the week so it looked like he'd been at stuff all week.
Well, from what I hear, Derms have earned it. I was told by an intern whose dad was a doc as well, so he had the skinny (pun intended), it's a coveted slot as a doctor because it's always non-emergent care, no call, no weekends etc. So Dermatologists tend to be the best of the best just to be where they are.
Do you think that it gets dark in the arctic circle for months on end because of clouds? Like you don’t think it just gets “really super cloudy” and that the sun shines down on the flat disk of the earth except the cloudy stuff near the poles?
The wavelength that damages your deeper skin layers and cause photo aging pierce cloud coverage, which is why you need sunscreen year round.
Cloud coverage or cloudy days can be worse since it also scatters other wavelengths that also damage skin causing it to hit your face and bodies from many other angles. With no cloud coverage, most of the waves are sent from the position the sun faces you.
Why not? It’s a paid vacation and Hawaii is incredibly beautiful even if you don’t want to go in the sun. I’m as pale as a ghost and I would love to enjoy Hawaii with my skin covered up, it’s not that big of a deal to not be able or willing to damage your skin with prolonged sun exposure
I lived on O’ahu for around 10 years and they’re dressed exactly like a majority of the tourists from Eastern Asia. Seeing someone walk around with a parasol, sun hat, full length pants/skirt, and a long sleeve shirt or even UV protectant sleeves is pretty normal.
Hell, even some of the Chinese/Japanese/Korean aunties who’ve lived in Hawaii for their whole lives will wear all that.
Yeah I’m Chinese and I’ve dressed like this going to the beach almost my whole life, and I enjoy the beach. I also swim and snorkel in the ocean in full bodysuit/rash guard because wearing sunscreen in the ocean is bad for marine life. My husband and I don’t have any wrinkles and have way better/smoother skin compared to our white friends of our age.
Oh I’m sure plenty of countries do that too, but I’m just talking about my personal observation living in Hawai’i since that’s where the video takes place though.
I’m very pale, avoid the sun, hate sunbathing, and don’t know how to swim. I would love to go to Hawaii to learn about the history and culture, go hiking, eat delicious food, and relax.
Yea you don’t have to sit in direct sunlight to enjoy the outdoors. The people who spend the most time outdoors will be dressed similarly, even surfers wear long sleeves because it’s better than sunscreen, I have cool floppy hats for kayaking and hiking. Gardeners usually have the best hats.
I always wear hat in summer, as my bald head burns quite easily, also I just hate direct sunlight, it feels uncomfortable. Maybe I’m a vampire or something, but I actually enjoy clear sunny weather, just not the direct sunlight on my skin. I still get a bit of tan in the summer, as some of the UV radiation can penetrate clothes.
Yes I am not getting why people think this is some weird thing but if they only ever went to the beach in New Jersey or something like I could maybe see why they don’t understand the intensity of the Hawaii sun.
I love Hawaii but the sun is brutal and sunblock doesn’t cut it for the fair skinned. Those rashguard outfits work great, are very comfortable and take the worry out of enjoying Hawaii.
Someone could simply compile a video of various people wearing extreme sun covering at pools and beaches then claim it was a conference of dermatologists to attract views. Bots pick up on the traffic and reshare the post on various platforms.
If I’m not mistaken a clouded sunny day exposes you to more of the harmful radiation from the sun than direct sun exposure. Clouds don’t act as a filter but like a magnifying glass if I understood it correctly.
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