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Ebola Roulette posted:Yup. Poor old people live off pudding, mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs because they can't afford dentures and have their tv turned up at full volume. It's hosed that Medicare doesn't cover dentures or hearing aids. The cruelty is the point. Combine that with the short-sightedness of the average business parasite and you end up with an industry whose entire purpose is to keep your body functioning deciding that, no, only some parts of the body should be maintained. You can live without teeth and sight and sound, right? We should be glad they let us keep our limbs. Mostly. For now.
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Screaming Idiot posted:The cruelty is the point. Combine that with the short-sightedness of the average business parasite and you end up with an industry whose entire purpose is to keep your body functioning deciding that, no, only some parts of the body should be maintained. You can live without teeth and sight and sound, right? This. Never underestimate a CEOs willingness to give up long term gains for short term profits, especially when their quarterly bonuses are on the line.
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Eat This Glob posted:I asked my employer nicely for a raise because I dont accept any bennies from them. it's been 3 months since I've asked and 4 months when my review was due lol We actually pay employees to opt out, so I get $10,000 a year for declining my mediocre health insurance and using my wife’s slightly crappier health insurance.
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The Nastier Nate posted:We actually pay employees to opt out, so I get $10,000 a year for declining my mediocre health insurance and using my wife’s slightly crappier health insurance. drat, that sounds american as hell. my company wont even let my wife sign up for insurance if she is offered ANY TYPE of health insurance through her employer or whatever. when my company got bought out this spring, people who had family coverage had to pay something like $500/month more, assuming they were able to keep their spouse+kids on their plan. I actually asked for $10k more. We'll see about that lol
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1166080803568279553 $572 million sounds like a lot! Surely that'll make a dent! quote:Janssen, one of the largest manufacturers of brand-name drugs in the country [and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson], reported 2018 sales of $23.3 billion in the United States.
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Doggles posted:$572 million sounds like a lot! Surely that'll make a dent! Yes but this case was Oklahoma specific, while that sales figure is national. Let's do some lovely napkin math. Oklahoma only contains about 1.2% of the US population. 1.2% of those $23.3 billion in sales is about $0.28 billion, or 280 million dollars. If we assume sales are spread equally per capita across the country (almost certainly not, but good enough for this), then the fine equals just over twice the value of a year's sales in Oklahoma. Now yes, the fine is singular while sales occur every year. But also, only a portion of sales are actual profit. I think no matter how you slice it, this is a hefty gosh dang fine considering it only applies to Oklahoma, where it must completely counter several years of profit. If a similar judgement was made in every state, scaled per capita, they would all total at 47,666 million, or about $47.7 billion dollars. Courts, you know what to do. Meme Poker Party has issued a correction as of 22:05 on Aug 26, 2019 |
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No chance in hell Johnson & Johnson pays more than a fraction of that amount, if it doesn't just get reversed on appeal.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:No chance in hell Johnson & Johnson pays more than a fraction of that amount, if it doesn't get dropped completely on appeal. "We're saddened by this verdict," a spokesperson for J&J reported when reach for comment, "we think it's unfair and it will hurt the good working people of Oklahoma."
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:"We're saddened by this verdict," a spokesperson for J&J reported when reach for comment, "we think it's unfair and it will hurt the good working people of Oklahoma." 
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Mechafunkzilla posted:No chance in hell Johnson & Johnson pays more than a fraction of that amount, if it doesn't just get reversed on appeal. Yeah, I'd say the judgement is sound, but we know who the system really works for. The lesson here is that courts are worthless, either start murdering executives or give up on fixing it.
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I mean, there's a big glut of people who went into law after seeing Law & Order and Phoenix Wright who are now getting hosed by capitalism looking for years-long unpaid internships. If we can radicalize them even to soc-dem levels and get local support behind e'm we can steal the justice system back in a few years. Then we can either do more stuff unhindered (as much) by the state and/or start composting the rich depending on how hosed we all are at that point.
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Chomp8645 posted:Yes but this case was Oklahoma specific, while that sales figure is national. Let's do some lovely napkin math.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:No chance in hell Johnson & Johnson pays more than a fraction of that amount, if it doesn't just get reversed on appeal. loling at 1.02 billion reduced to a 250k settlement
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Let's not forget that a lot of these settlements are like the Equifax settlement, where they're not being paid in cash, but services. Equifax is giving out "free credit monitoring," that they get to set the price for when determining the value (even though the marginal cost to them is almost certainly pennies). It's some loving bullshit.
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Has something specific changed recently at Popeye's to make their jobs worse?
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Chomp8645 posted:Has something specific changed recently at Popeye's to make their jobs worse? as far as policy, I don't think so
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Chomp8645 posted:Has something specific changed recently at Popeye's to make their jobs worse? popeyes introduced a new sandwich
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The chicken wars started
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Fast food places have new promo items all the time though. What makes this one so different? I understand that working there probably sucks in general. But the context seems to be that this sandwich in particular has made everything worse and I don't get why that it is. Is it just because they are really busy?
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Chomp8645 posted:Fast food places have new promo items all the time though. What makes this one so different? It's the sandwich that is destined to finally bring about the end of the old world
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mY sZeCHuaN sAuCE!
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I only ate at Popeyes one time, and it was pretty bad.
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Chomp8645 posted:Fast food places have new promo items all the time though. What makes this one so different? probably hired a new marketing team that is trying and failing at getting a viral sensation going
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Lambert posted:I only ate at Popeyes one time, and it was pretty bad. They're generally the best of the major fried chicken chains, but that may be a low bar depending on your views
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I thought it was because of dumbass popeyes/chic-fil-a memes
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duz posted:probably hired a new marketing team that is trying and failing at getting a viral sensation going it succeeded. thats why it sucks.
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The Bloop posted:They're generally the best of the major fried chicken chains, but that may be a low bar depending on your views Yeah they're real good by bad things standards 
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Fast food is some of the most demeaning soul-crushing poo poo, then all the abuse and stress is magnified x100 because there's lines around the block for impatient people who want some publicity stunt sandwich, gently caress all of that. Poor guy, I want to give that dude a hug.
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DoubleDonut posted:I thought it was because of dumbass popeyes/chic-fil-a memes people live out those memes every day in the south how is that breaking character, popeyes is the one fast food chain where i'd expect the staff to tell a problematic customer to gently caress off hobbesmaster has issued a correction as of 22:15 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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the honest truth is that Hardee’s has the best chicken sandwich in the chicken biscuit sandwich.
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ive had to tell both of my bosses to gently caress off with me being "nice" to people at my job im a god drat bouncer at a bar next to 8 other bars/restaurants
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my absolute favorite part of being a manager at my dominos is telling people we blacklisted their rear end for calling a driver a spic, not paying, etc and having them beg me to let them get a delivery. maybe it sounds weird but I finally have the power to say no at a job and it feels good
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Siljmonster posted:ive had to tell both of my bosses to gently caress off with me being "nice" to people at my job How much do people slip you to get in usually?
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Larry Parrish posted:my absolute favorite part of being a manager at my dominos is telling people we blacklisted their rear end for calling a driver a spic, not paying, etc and having them beg me to let them get a delivery. maybe it sounds weird but I finally have the power to say no at a job and it feels good Do they ever just go above you though? I've known shift leads and store level managers that still walk on eggshells around lovely customers because some petty dickhead who can't take a loss will go right to district/regional/corporate and give them an earful, which naturally makes poo poo roll downhill. Either way good for you for sticking up for your employees, I never got the chance to tell a rude customer to eat poo poo.
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spankmeister posted:How much do people slip you to get in usually? what the gently caress
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spankmeister posted:How much do people slip you to get in usually? he doesnt work at club 54
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T-man posted:Back when I did care coordination for trans patients my job was 99% telling insurance that they're breaking the law on coverage and the rest was begging surgeons to take medicaid. Single payer would be so god drat easier and faster and cheaper and we're never going to have it. Wait, you did care coordination for trans people and you still couldn't get your grs covered??? WTF is this horseshit
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I work for an insurance company -- or rather, the contractor to a contractor to a contractor of an insurance company -- and they literally sent a company-wide email threatening to fire anybody who suggests to our customers to contact their doctors to send in a referral for treatment they already had. Bear in mind, our systems are borked so at least twenty-five percent of the referrals that get sent to us disappear or get held up as "needing more information" for Very Important Reasons. Insurance is nothing more than an impediment to healthcare. My job is to tell people no. I had to tell a hospice nurse and the woman she's caring for whose body is so riddled with cancer that her breast is ruptured and leaking pus that, no, we can't cover her because she's 65, and if she doesn't have Medicare A and B then we can't cover the procedure she has scheduled for tomorrow. I had to tell her no. She told me that I was taking away what little time she had left. I nearly walked out after that call. My uncle died yesterday, too. I can't go to his funeral without incurring an attendance violation. My supervisor's a nice lady, but she's just a straw boss with virtually no more power than me.
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