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Barudak posted:My company had some initiative where meetings would start at :05 instead instead of :00 and anyone who sets up meetings that way I mentally bin as a bootlicker We actually did this for a while for a good reason: We're a UCaaS (no, not that one. Not that one either.) provider and a lot of our customers started meetings at :00 and it was creating a few weird edge cases or someshit.
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I'm thinking we should maybe burn society to the ground and start from scratch.
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Outrail posted:I'm thinking we should maybe burn society to the ground and start from scratch. Mother Nature's time tested method
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Jun 11, 2022 00:43
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goatface posted:Lots of new hires on trimmed wages who don't know any better. Win win. Obviously that's the plan. When we're at record low unemployment and the workforce as a whole is getting increasingly restless and fed up, it's a glorious plan! We just need to stay the course a bit longer and those workers will come crawling back any day now! Any day now! Yup! Any moment really!
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Jun 11, 2022 01:19
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Outrail posted:I'm thinking we should maybe burn society to the ground and start from scratch. 
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Jun 11, 2022 02:30
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But like, not with humans. Monkeys were a terrible choice. Capybaras or sloths maybe.
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Jun 11, 2022 02:43
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primates + no fur + a brain capable of coming up with bullshit unrelated to loving and eating wtf
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Jun 11, 2022 02:48
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goatface posted:It doesn't, just most of it is never properly attacked. Automated probing is everywhere.  I actually just got a raise, since we're merging with another department and people who do the equivalent of my job over there get paid more. Then also in the email from the director she asked that some people didn't need a raise to be at the minimum level (and of course those people won't be getting a bump because lol government budgets) so to please be sensitive to the feelings of others and try not to discuss it. Since I'm a government employee my wages are posted publicly online. 
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Pyrtanis posted:Before I got fully credentialed in Epic Cadence I would go hang out with the schedulers in the outpatient clinics to get a feel for what their workflow was... what I discovered when I got credentialed and could do builds was the clinic managers wanted things that actively made their scheduler's jobs needlessly more difficult and were actively resistant to compromise 
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Jun 11, 2022 02:54
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Outrail posted:But like, not with humans. Monkeys were a terrible choice. Capybaras or sloths maybe. Capybaras emit good vibes, so that would be a good choice. Unbothered kings.
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Jun 11, 2022 03:11
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goatface posted:Lots of new hires on trimmed wages who don't know any better. Win win. My team hired a fresh-out-of-college guy who I'm helping to train. He's energetic and extremely on the ball and wants to get involved in anything he can. This is great for me because I can schedule a meeting and bounce thoughts off him and he'll come back with solid suggestions or supplements to things I say. It's a good dynamic because the difference between a mid career corporate surfer and a new hire working his first job is enough that his optimism and belief he can change things breaks through my 15 years of seeing poo poo never change for the better now and again and I feel like maybe I'll fix the problem this time. One thing I've learned is that he thinks our insurance is good and he's being compensated "pretty well." I told him how I used to pay $70 a month for my wife and myself to have no copays, no co-insurance and a $1000 deductible and it blew his mind. I know he came in near the bottom of the payscale for the job, which means he's making nearly nothing for a fairly demanding job (in a fully remote office job, so "nearly nothing" is still way above the median income in the US). The next generation of workers is coming into a reality I watched transform, so I feel like it's a requirement that I tell this guy things used to be better and corporate greed ruined it so he'll learn not to have company loyalty either.
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Jun 11, 2022 04:31
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Every employer renegotiating their group rate since 2005 or thereabouts has been going to high deductible as the default and any company making it this far has largely avoided that renegotiation. This is the first real labor shortage since then to try and force anything back and its going to be real interesting as to what gives between the demand for care for fat and old/oncology as default treatment, medical student loan debt, and willingness to work for wages less than what it takes to get medical treatment.
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Jun 11, 2022 04:52
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You say interesting but I feel frustrating and very stupid is likely.
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Jun 11, 2022 14:11
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*daydreams of 2005-2008 when his employer paid 100% of the premiums* We just did open enrollment last week. They were shopping around as Anthem was raising the rates by 20%. They ended up getting it down to a 4% increase in exchange for bumping up the deductibles on the plans by $1k each (now $2k/$3k), with rates for myself plus spouse going up $30/month. The biggest hurdle for us though is when they change providers. My wife's been on Humira for over 15 years, but every time we change providers she gets denied and has to go through the prior authorization process before they'll fill the prescriptions. The name of that process is so dumb as well because we've switched providers so many times over the years that every insurance company we've been with has already authorized it at least once or twice. My wife works in county government and they have only provided high deductible plans for years now. And the only pharmacies you can use are the mail order or Kroger. The premiums for union members are so much cheaper than non-union that people pass up advancement opportunities because the pay increase to move to management is offset by the insurance premiums.
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zedprime posted:Every employer renegotiating their group rate since 2005 or thereabouts has been going to high deductible as the default and any company making it this far has largely avoided that renegotiation. This is the first real labor shortage since then to try and force anything back and its going to be real interesting as to what gives between the demand for care for fat and old/oncology as default treatment, medical student loan debt, and willingness to work for wages less than what it takes to get medical treatment. Speaking of going for "high deductibles", an interesting note from our new insurance - the new "high deductible" plan actually has a lower deductible than the regular one. It's baffling. Oh, and that "we'll no longer pay 100% of short term disability, just 50%"? That 50% came out to something like 6 dollars a month. They're that goddamn cheap.
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Jun 11, 2022 14:26
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the future is not looking bright
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Jun 11, 2022 16:17
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Spent four hours editing a video for training purposes that I was told to make Wednesday afternoon. Asked my higher-ups and coworkers to review the video (ten minutes long) to determine if I miss anything. Remind them constantly from Thursday to Friday. Friday afternoon comes around, they determine as a group that the video is not anything that they wanted, thanks anyway, but can you recreate it to our standards so that we can send it out this afternoon? gently caress this place sometimes.
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Jun 11, 2022 16:21
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"Per my literal chain of reminder emails, no, I can't do that. Have a nice weekend!"
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Lazyfire posted:
This isn't even all that new. I'm an old millennial and I've never, ever had anything other than high deductible plans. My general plan is not to get sick, and when I do have problems I kick the can on getting them treated until I've got enough bundled together to exceed the deductible. Not the best plan but whelp.
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A MINIATURE LLAMA posted:Spent four hours editing a video for training purposes that I was told to make Wednesday afternoon. "failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine"
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Jun 11, 2022 18:59
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What's a deductible 
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Cyrano4747 posted:This isn't even all that new. I'm an old millennial and I've never, ever had anything other than high deductible plans.
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evilpicard posted:What's a deductible Laughs in Australian American healthcare is a nightmare
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Right now we have scary good insurance. And my god, is it a golden handcuff. I've had to put a number on how much more money I'd need to give it up and it's a lot. And it has certainly soured me on the idea of ever working for an American based company ever again.
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NPR Journalizard posted:Laughs in Australian There are so many things wrong with Britain, but the NHS is one of the very few things that makes me occasionally proud of where I’m from 
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Except Brits keep voting Tory and Australia's economy is collapsing, so by 2030 both countries will be some Mad Max hellscape where healthcare means killing someone and eating their liver. And it will somehow still be better than the public option in America.
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Dongsturm posted:Australia's economy is collapsing It's very possible that we can have a soft landing, but that would mean that we need to deflate the real estate bubble smoothly, and that just doesn't look like it's going to happen.
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Jun 12, 2022 08:43
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The insurance here is good enough that I know a few couples where one spouse works here part-time for the insurance and the other spouse works a high paying job with poo poo benefits.
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no go on Quiznos posted:The insurance here is good enough that I know a few couples where one spouse works here part-time for the insurance and the other spouse works a high paying job with poo poo benefits. What backwater badly managed corporate-owned shithole country would let something like this happen?
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Jun 12, 2022 18:05
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Listen, if you don't have to competitively outbid other poorer people for the pleasure of not dying from simple health issues that have been solved for 100 years then Lenin has won.
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Outrail posted:What backwater badly managed corporate-owned shithole country would let something like this happen? I agree, it's outrageous that someone can get health insurance for their whole family from one part time job! Won't someone PLEASE think of the shareholders!
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Jun 12, 2022 20:12
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gently caress. I'm never returning to the US. It seems like even if you find a place with decent health insurance they can just downgrade it and even the better plans seem worse than the public option here.
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My former employer changed our dental plan without telling employees at the beginning of the year and cost me like $1000 on a couple crowns. Enrollment looked the same, same deductible and all that, but it was a new provider and my dentist was not in network and they covered waaaaaay less of the costs. Didn't even get my new insurance card until like mid March when my dentist was asking me why my bill was being rejected by my old insurance provider. Took me multiple days to get in contact with the corporate office and ask wtf happened to my plan. I quit last October and was on COBRA at the time so of course the union didn't care to help me with any of it despite being a dues paying member for over 5 years with no issues. Turns out they didn't even tell the current employees or the union about the switch either. And now it has been months since the new union contract was signed and everyone got raises but the raises haven't been reflected on anyone's paychecks. Idk what is going on with that drat union. The first contract renegotiation when I was there just seemed to be all give and no take on our part as health insurance costs went way up and they screwed over new hires by doubling the time until they receive full pay. In return, the union got...nothing as far as I could tell. We absolutely should have gone on strike.
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I broke my foot in late April and ended up at the ER. The bill might be $1600. It might be $5000. I have no idea. I think the ER closest to us is out of network, but the insurance is treating us like it's in? I guess I'll know when I get the bill.
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Escape From Noise posted:gently caress. I'm never returning to the US. It seems like even if you find a place with decent health insurance they can just downgrade it and even the better plans seem worse than the public option here. Yeah. I do contract work in a very mobile situation, and the health benefits are very clearly explained. If a company pulls this sort of thing, they could expect significant turnover, with all the associated costs one might expect. I'd be very shy about returning to an environment that had a largely static workforce, even if I personally were still on contract, because companies would presumably tune their abuse level to the assumption that most people won't/can't leave.
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I'm just saying I've visited a dermatologist, a GP, and an ENT for different things in the last month and those visits and meds cost me less than a hundred bucks. The ghouls in the LDP keep trying to dismantle it but even though the old people keep voting for them, they also get mad if anyone fucks with their health insurance.
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Escape From Noise posted:I'm just saying I've visited a dermatologist, a GP, and an ENT https://i.imgur.com/MfoO8zL.gifv I'll bet that was a long appointment.
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Agents are GO! posted:https://i.imgur.com/MfoO8zL.gifv My body is falling apart. Make it stop!
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Agents are GO! posted:https://i.imgur.com/MfoO8zL.gifv So? Do you have a diagnosis? Diagnosis? No. We have only just finished collecting... insurance information.
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Escape From Noise posted:My body is falling apart. Make it stop! Don't be hasty. Karia posted:So? Do you have a diagnosis? Now we need to discuss... *harumph* ... your family medical history.
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