Medicare rolled out new insurance codes for continuous glucose monitors on the 1st and a bunch of replacement/advantage plans followed suit but seemingly none of them remembered to update their online portals to allow us to use the new codes. So we are having to waste probably hundreds of hours calling insurance lines that are incredibly backed up because everyone else is doing the same thing. Fucking privatized healthcare. Fortunately for me none of my orders are ready to ship so I am just going to wait and hope they get their shit together in the next few days.
We're installing new lecture podiums in a dozen or so rooms in this ancient ass building, and it's amazing what all kinds of garbage nonsense we're finding in this drop ceiling.
My favorite is probably the baseball glove, or maybe the collection of scratch off lotto tickets from 1997.
Medicare rolled out new insurance codes for continuous glucose monitors on the 1st and a bunch of replacement/advantage plans followed suit but seemingly none of them remembered to update their online portals to allow us to use the new codes. So we are having to waste probably hundreds of hours calling insurance lines that are incredibly backed up because everyone else is doing the same thing. Fucking privatized healthcare. Fortunately for me none of my orders are ready to ship so I am just going to wait and hope they get their shit together in the next few days.
I really don't understand how Medicare advantage plans are even a thing that is allowed to exist, or is a thing people feel is better than their standard Medicare. Truly mind blowing shit.
Medicare rolled out new insurance codes for continuous glucose monitors on the 1st and a bunch of replacement/advantage plans followed suit but seemingly none of them remembered to update their online portals to allow us to use the new codes. So we are having to waste probably hundreds of hours calling insurance lines that are incredibly backed up because everyone else is doing the same thing. Fucking privatized healthcare. Fortunately for me none of my orders are ready to ship so I am just going to wait and hope they get their shit together in the next few days.
I really don't understand how Medicare advantage plans are even a thing that is allowed to exist, or is a thing people feel is better than their standard Medicare. Truly mind blowing shit.
People just don't understand our health care system. Insurance is insanely complicated and these plans tell people they can offer better coverage. In fairness sometimes they do. Like there are Aetna Medicare replacement plans that cover diabetic supplies, including CGM and pumps, at 100%. Medicare only covers CGM and pumps at 80% and it is a big difference over the course of a year. Of course those plans probably cost so much that you still end up losing money so...
Medicare rolled out new insurance codes for continuous glucose monitors on the 1st and a bunch of replacement/advantage plans followed suit but seemingly none of them remembered to update their online portals to allow us to use the new codes. So we are having to waste probably hundreds of hours calling insurance lines that are incredibly backed up because everyone else is doing the same thing. Fucking privatized healthcare. Fortunately for me none of my orders are ready to ship so I am just going to wait and hope they get their shit together in the next few days.
I really don't understand how Medicare advantage plans are even a thing that is allowed to exist, or is a thing people feel is better than their standard Medicare. Truly mind blowing shit.
People just don't understand our health care system. Insurance is insanely complicated and these plans tell people they can offer better coverage. In fairness sometimes they do. Like there are Aetna Medicare replacement plans that cover diabetic supplies, including CGM and pumps, at 100%. Medicare only covers CGM and pumps at 80% and it is a big difference over the course of a year. Of course those plans probably cost so much that you still end up losing money so...
My rationale has always been if they can afford to buy your Medicare off you and still make money, it's worse than Medicare. Especially when it comes to specialist copays and surgeries and stuff, that's the shit that the advantage plans really fuck the customers on. For prescriptions maybe it's good enough to break even, but not every time.
For the first bit of the line the cars at BMW are just sitting on a wooden sled. Nothing holding them at all. Well the bodies can be lifted up and down to make it easier for people to get access to certain parts of the cars. They also have these rolling carts that hold parts and screws and stuff. Every now and then the car will go up, the cart will go under the car, and the car will come back down. Flips the body right onto the floor. No big deal, buff it out and ship it.
Apparently "Return to office" has been such a big flop that they are going to...
force more people back in, during one of our busiest times of the year.
The only reason I didn't start looking for a new job back in May was because I was told I'd get to stay remote. They've slowly been chipping away at that and now it seems like they are pulling the rug out entirely. I don't want to look for a new job for a variety of reasons, so I'll tough it out for a couple of months until I move and see if anything changes. Moving ~2 hours away so something is going to give, I can't do that commute.
The "managers" who don't know how to do anything but play hall monitor desperately want to get butts back in seats and/or cubes.
It's not even that! I'm a low level manager, I talk to directors and VP's and they (for the most part) aren't pushing it. It C-level leadership. This is probably because someone at the very, very top went to a few offices and saw a lot of empty cubes and pulled stats to see how many people were swiping badges.
First day kids are back in 2023 and lets play "TikTok or general dumbassery?"
Students attempted to have the building swatted today. Yay.
Was it kids for sure? I know two schools in Vermont had calls come in, but I don't think anyone was caught yet. But I also remember a couple months back there were coordinated threats called in the schools all over several states. Which is pretty fucked up!
First day kids are back in 2023 and lets play "TikTok or general dumbassery?"
Students attempted to have the building swatted today. Yay.
Was it kids for sure? I know two schools in Vermont had calls come in, but I don't think anyone was caught yet. But I also remember a couple months back there were coordinated threats called in the schools all over several states. Which is pretty fucked up!
Rember when demosthenes and locke seemed like silly pipe dreams of a science fiction author?
First day kids are back in 2023 and lets play "TikTok or general dumbassery?"
Students attempted to have the building swatted today. Yay.
Was it kids for sure? I know two schools in Vermont had calls come in, but I don't think anyone was caught yet. But I also remember a couple months back there were coordinated threats called in the schools all over several states. Which is pretty fucked up!
Rember when demosthenes and locke seemed like silly pipe dreams of a science fiction author?
IMO, the fantastical part was, and still is, that influencers would bring about positive* social change.
dumb fads go back ages.
First day kids are back in 2023 and lets play "TikTok or general dumbassery?"
Students attempted to have the building swatted today. Yay.
Was it kids for sure? I know two schools in Vermont had calls come in, but I don't think anyone was caught yet. But I also remember a couple months back there were coordinated threats called in the schools all over several states. Which is pretty fucked up!
There's been a vocal group in my town that's been complaining about indoctrination at our schools. While there have been no violent threats yet they have threatened send their children to school covered in Confederate battle flags. (This was in response to a small number of students wearing rainbow flags.)
If there ever was an attempt to swat on of our schools they would be the first group I'd suspect.
I'm also clearly not completely over the bronchitis I had over the holidays. Dead tired from the smallest things and still coughing a lot. At least I only have today and tomorrow and then the weekend off.
...before I then work 7 out of 8 days in a row.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
First day kids are back in 2023 and lets play "TikTok or general dumbassery?"
Students attempted to have the building swatted today. Yay.
Was it kids for sure? I know two schools in Vermont had calls come in, but I don't think anyone was caught yet. But I also remember a couple months back there were coordinated threats called in the schools all over several states. Which is pretty fucked up!
Yeah. The overseas threats happened in our district too, I think they came from somewhere in Africa or one of the Baltic states maybe? One of the schools targetted our neighbor a few blocks away.
This was near-simultaneous fake calls to 911 from school landlines in empty classrooms. Thankfully, to my understanding, they were just hangups or leaving the line open but silent so there was followup before armed response. I would imagine cameras will show at least some of the students involved, but I won't be involved in any of that.
Last semester a student put general "y'all better not come to school Monday" type threats on instagram or something. She and her family felt the schools reaction was unwarranted.
A couple years ago, pre-covid, I was working in a different high school, same district, when a student walked into an empty office, dialed the district security number, then said "put down the gun" and hung up. That resulted in a lockdown and both the local PD and armed district officers entering with weapons drawn, much to the shock of the two paraprofessionals who had since occupied the office and had no idea about the call.
That same high school sometime last school year had a kid in a ski mask enter with a pellet-type gun chasing students down in the hallway. I have a still from the cameras on that one. There's no way I'd know it was fake if I didn't know already. I may have mentioned it here, who knows how many job threads ago that was.
My very first semester in the district I was part time and left a third high school building around noon. A few minutes later the building went into what would be a 4 hour lockdown as swat teams swept the building looking for a student with a gun who had made threats. It turned out the student had not attended school that day. I do not know if she ever had a weapon at all.
All of that and the only stereotypically "bad" school I've been in was the middle school (grades 6-8, roughly 11-13 years old). Different stories there involving actual fear of imminent bodily harm and wondering if I was gonna have to hit a student to save myself, or being first on scene of an apparent OD in the bathroom (but everything turned out okay, it was a juul pod).
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited January 5
Got in my van today for the first time in a couple of weeks and it is super mouldy. It's had a bit of it on the ceiling for ages but I guess the humidity and not being opened up to circulate air made it go crazy over Christmas and now both seats and the steering wheel are covered. It's pretty rank. So I guess I should do something about that.
Trouble is it's basically impossible to ever get the inside of my van totally dry, at least for 9 months of the year, because it's constantly got wet tools, clothes, or plant matter in there. I did get some seat covers for Christmas so once I've de-moulded the fabric they will hopefully help prevent it a bit in future.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I've opted to book my van in for a deep clean / valet service rather than trying to clean it myself, because there's no way I would do a thorough enough job and I am an adult with (some) money so I can do that, which is something I generally forget.
(the place offers specialist mould removal cleaning, I'm not just being a dick)
I've opted to book my van in for a deep clean / valet service rather than trying to clean it myself, because there's no way I would do a thorough enough job and I am an adult with (some) money so I can do that, which is something I generally forget.
(the place offers specialist mould removal cleaning, I'm not just being a dick)
you can be a little dick, as a treat
+5
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
edited January 5
My library boss told me I should apply for a grant to get $30,000 for more makerspace stuff.
Pros:
That would be a LOT of stuff
Cons:
I'd have to make a 3 minute video submission.
The money comes from the CIA. Yes. That CIA.
Edit: On the grant website I just saw this line,
Check out the CIA’s Spy Kids website https://www.cia.gov/spy-kids/ for cool facts about CIA that could be used in your classroom!
I think I'd probably take the money as long as I didn't need to have any kind of "Provided by the CIA" stickers on them or any other signage saying where the funds for those things came from, or if there's a clause like "by accepting this money you also accept that you'll stock these books talking about how great the cia is"
Got in my van today for the first time in a couple of weeks and it is super mouldy. It's had a bit of it on the ceiling for ages but I guess the humidity and not being opened up to circulate air made it go crazy over Christmas and now both seats and the steering wheel are covered. It's pretty rank. So I guess I should do something about that.
Trouble is it's basically impossible to ever get the inside of my van totally dry, at least for 9 months of the year, because it's constantly got wet tools, clothes, or plant matter in there. I did get some seat covers for Christmas so once I've de-moulded the fabric they will hopefully help prevent it a bit in future.
I'd at least look into getting some large, like 500g+ and like multiple depending on the size of your van, desiccant packs to keep in your van if you aren't able to air it out in a garage regularly.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
For a few months now, I've been getting very important-looking letters addressed to someone who doesn't live at my house. Like, big thick envelopes from banks and the tax commission, not the usual junk mail from the folks who used to rent the place. As per usual, I've been stamping them with my handy Return to Sender - Not At This Address stamp and putting them back in the mail box.
Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.
On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.
No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.
So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.
For a few months now, I've been getting very important-looking letters addressed to someone who doesn't live at my house. Like, big thick envelopes from banks and the tax commission, not the usual junk mail from the folks who used to rent the place. As per usual, I've been stamping them with my handy Return to Sender - Not At This Address stamp and putting them back in the mail box.
Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.
On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.
No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.
So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.
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My favorite is probably the baseball glove, or maybe the collection of scratch off lotto tickets from 1997.
I'm in the middle of my week of vacation. Why can't it just last forever?
I really don't understand how Medicare advantage plans are even a thing that is allowed to exist, or is a thing people feel is better than their standard Medicare. Truly mind blowing shit.
People just don't understand our health care system. Insurance is insanely complicated and these plans tell people they can offer better coverage. In fairness sometimes they do. Like there are Aetna Medicare replacement plans that cover diabetic supplies, including CGM and pumps, at 100%. Medicare only covers CGM and pumps at 80% and it is a big difference over the course of a year. Of course those plans probably cost so much that you still end up losing money so...
PSN:Furlion
Someone's probably still in for a stern scalding from the manager though
My rationale has always been if they can afford to buy your Medicare off you and still make money, it's worse than Medicare. Especially when it comes to specialist copays and surgeries and stuff, that's the shit that the advantage plans really fuck the customers on. For prescriptions maybe it's good enough to break even, but not every time.
Students attempted to have the building swatted today. Yay.
Trim B dropped a car on a robot
Trim A had to wait for each individual spare tire to arrive from the tire bay
First day back from shutdown went, uhh, poorly.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Do you want transformers? Because this is how you get transformers
PSN:Furlion
force more people back in, during one of our busiest times of the year.
The only reason I didn't start looking for a new job back in May was because I was told I'd get to stay remote. They've slowly been chipping away at that and now it seems like they are pulling the rug out entirely. I don't want to look for a new job for a variety of reasons, so I'll tough it out for a couple of months until I move and see if anything changes. Moving ~2 hours away so something is going to give, I can't do that commute.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
It's not even that! I'm a low level manager, I talk to directors and VP's and they (for the most part) aren't pushing it. It C-level leadership. This is probably because someone at the very, very top went to a few offices and saw a lot of empty cubes and pulled stats to see how many people were swiping badges.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Was it kids for sure? I know two schools in Vermont had calls come in, but I don't think anyone was caught yet. But I also remember a couple months back there were coordinated threats called in the schools all over several states. Which is pretty fucked up!
Rember when demosthenes and locke seemed like silly pipe dreams of a science fiction author?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
IMO, the fantastical part was, and still is, that influencers would bring about positive* social change.
dumb fads go back ages.
(* from the author's POV, at least)
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
There's been a vocal group in my town that's been complaining about indoctrination at our schools. While there have been no violent threats yet they have threatened send their children to school covered in Confederate battle flags. (This was in response to a small number of students wearing rainbow flags.)
If there ever was an attempt to swat on of our schools they would be the first group I'd suspect.
...before I then work 7 out of 8 days in a row.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Yeah. The overseas threats happened in our district too, I think they came from somewhere in Africa or one of the Baltic states maybe? One of the schools targetted our neighbor a few blocks away.
This was near-simultaneous fake calls to 911 from school landlines in empty classrooms. Thankfully, to my understanding, they were just hangups or leaving the line open but silent so there was followup before armed response. I would imagine cameras will show at least some of the students involved, but I won't be involved in any of that.
Last semester a student put general "y'all better not come to school Monday" type threats on instagram or something. She and her family felt the schools reaction was unwarranted.
A couple years ago, pre-covid, I was working in a different high school, same district, when a student walked into an empty office, dialed the district security number, then said "put down the gun" and hung up. That resulted in a lockdown and both the local PD and armed district officers entering with weapons drawn, much to the shock of the two paraprofessionals who had since occupied the office and had no idea about the call.
That same high school sometime last school year had a kid in a ski mask enter with a pellet-type gun chasing students down in the hallway. I have a still from the cameras on that one. There's no way I'd know it was fake if I didn't know already. I may have mentioned it here, who knows how many job threads ago that was.
My very first semester in the district I was part time and left a third high school building around noon. A few minutes later the building went into what would be a 4 hour lockdown as swat teams swept the building looking for a student with a gun who had made threats. It turned out the student had not attended school that day. I do not know if she ever had a weapon at all.
All of that and the only stereotypically "bad" school I've been in was the middle school (grades 6-8, roughly 11-13 years old). Different stories there involving actual fear of imminent bodily harm and wondering if I was gonna have to hit a student to save myself, or being first on scene of an apparent OD in the bathroom (but everything turned out okay, it was a juul pod).
Trouble is it's basically impossible to ever get the inside of my van totally dry, at least for 9 months of the year, because it's constantly got wet tools, clothes, or plant matter in there. I did get some seat covers for Christmas so once I've de-moulded the fabric they will hopefully help prevent it a bit in future.
i want to die and happily just might
(the place offers specialist mould removal cleaning, I'm not just being a dick)
you can be a little dick, as a treat
Pros:
- That would be a LOT of stuff
Cons:Edit: On the grant website I just saw this line,
Would you have to publicly acknowledge that the money came from them?
Maybe? They have past winners on there. But then I'd have cashed that check and bought like so many lego.
I'd at least look into getting some large, like 500g+ and like multiple depending on the size of your van, desiccant packs to keep in your van if you aren't able to air it out in a garage regularly.
Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.
On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.
No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.
So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.
holy crap
also i need one of those stamps