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The US having super expensive healthcare is actually globally important. That money pays for all the R&D.
having private money pay for all the R&D is objectively a bad thing
this is how you get 30 different penis pills while non-profitable diseases get shit-all in funding
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
i'm real interested in like, the vacation/pto/sick time policy
because 4 weeks vs 2 weeks is a huge qol difference for me
PTO isn't a big QoL thing if you never use it.
sure, corporate culture pressuring you not to use PTO is a big deal. if i had unlimited vacation but knew it'd be unpleasant to use more than 3 weeks, i'd regard that as 3 weeks
I, uh, regularly get asked to use PTO near the end of the fiscal year so they don't have so much PTO floating on the balance sheets.
I haven't looked, but I suspect I'm near 250 hours banked.
oh yeah that ain't me
if pto is offered i will use it
i spent the first 15 years of my life with 1 week (or 0 pto period), so i am glad to bite up every bit i can find
My employer gives every employee who hits 10 years with the company $3000 and five days "free" PTO to take a trip as a thank you for the time and loyalty.
Mine's on track to expire, unused, in a few months.
I'm pretty terrible. I do not know how to vacation.
Just... take the time off and don't go in to work. You don't have to take a trip somewhere.
A majority of my vacation days are spent taking long weekends to just chill.
Well, for the ten year, you have to pay out of pocket and they re-imburse you. You must include a picture of the place we went.
(I have heard rumor of people just submitting a googled photo of an island and then using the cash for not-vacation shit, though.)
i'm real interested in like, the vacation/pto/sick time policy
because 4 weeks vs 2 weeks is a huge qol difference for me
PTO isn't a big QoL thing if you never use it.
sure, corporate culture pressuring you not to use PTO is a big deal. if i had unlimited vacation but knew it'd be unpleasant to use more than 3 weeks, i'd regard that as 3 weeks
I, uh, regularly get asked to use PTO near the end of the fiscal year so they don't have so much PTO floating on the balance sheets.
I haven't looked, but I suspect I'm near 250 hours banked.
oh yeah that ain't me
if pto is offered i will use it
i spent the first 15 years of my life with 1 week (or 0 pto period), so i am glad to bite up every bit i can find
My employer gives every employee who hits 10 years with the company $3000 and five days "free" PTO to take a trip as a thank you for the time and loyalty.
Mine's on track to expire, unused, in a few months.
I'm pretty terrible. I do not know how to vacation.
Just... take the time off and don't go in to work. You don't have to take a trip somewhere.
A majority of my vacation days are spent taking long weekends to just chill.
Wait times in America are already garbage, I had health insurance and after spending many hours at the ER for bells palsy, it took 3 weeks before a neurologist could squeeze me in
I can't imagine they're much worse in Canada, although I'd wager that wait times are longer for non critical care
according to the canadian side of my family, they wait less than we do for surgeries, but routine checkups have to be scheduled well in advance if you even want them to be a thing, but, near as I can tell, US as a whole waits longer on average than a Canadian for healthcare.
Unless you're a US citizen who is paying out of pocket, then you can get in within the week.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
+1
jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Maybe, y'know, the whole idea of health insurance being tied to your employer is insane and corrupt and evil?
The fear for americans is that we'd lose the health benefits, get no increase in our salary for the loss of benefit and pay more in taxes to cover UHC. Because American employers routinely fuck their employees to the limit.
That's a legitimate fear isn't it? Employers aren't going to funnel that money down to their employees if they're not somehow forced to.
eeeeh
I mean min-wage jobs will probably stay min-wage
but other stuff would adjust upward, there is some competition for labor after all
There's labor competition?
Besides being forced to accept lower wages to compete with H1-B visa workers?
H1Bs are a red herring
I keep hearing that.
If H1-Bs were used as they were supposed to be, I'd agree with you.
i'm real interested in like, the vacation/pto/sick time policy
because 4 weeks vs 2 weeks is a huge qol difference for me
PTO isn't a big QoL thing if you never use it.
sure, corporate culture pressuring you not to use PTO is a big deal. if i had unlimited vacation but knew it'd be unpleasant to use more than 3 weeks, i'd regard that as 3 weeks
I, uh, regularly get asked to use PTO near the end of the fiscal year so they don't have so much PTO floating on the balance sheets.
I haven't looked, but I suspect I'm near 250 hours banked.
oh yeah that ain't me
if pto is offered i will use it
i spent the first 15 years of my life with 1 week (or 0 pto period), so i am glad to bite up every bit i can find
My employer gives every employee who hits 10 years with the company $3000 and five days "free" PTO to take a trip as a thank you for the time and loyalty.
Mine's on track to expire, unused, in a few months.
I'm pretty terrible. I do not know how to vacation.
Just... take the time off and don't go in to work. You don't have to take a trip somewhere.
A majority of my vacation days are spent taking long weekends to just chill.
Well, for the ten year, you have to pay out of pocket and they re-imburse you. You must include a picture of the place we went.
(I have heard rumor of people just submitting a googled photo of an island and then using the cash for not-vacation shit, though.)
oh my god dude
take that vacation jesus
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
+1
DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
i'm real interested in like, the vacation/pto/sick time policy
because 4 weeks vs 2 weeks is a huge qol difference for me
PTO isn't a big QoL thing if you never use it.
sure, corporate culture pressuring you not to use PTO is a big deal. if i had unlimited vacation but knew it'd be unpleasant to use more than 3 weeks, i'd regard that as 3 weeks
I, uh, regularly get asked to use PTO near the end of the fiscal year so they don't have so much PTO floating on the balance sheets.
I haven't looked, but I suspect I'm near 250 hours banked.
oh yeah that ain't me
if pto is offered i will use it
i spent the first 15 years of my life with 1 week (or 0 pto period), so i am glad to bite up every bit i can find
My employer gives every employee who hits 10 years with the company $3000 and five days "free" PTO to take a trip as a thank you for the time and loyalty.
Mine's on track to expire, unused, in a few months.
I'm pretty terrible. I do not know how to vacation.
Just... take the time off and don't go in to work. You don't have to take a trip somewhere.
A majority of my vacation days are spent taking long weekends to just chill.
Well, for the ten year, you have to pay out of pocket and they re-imburse you. You must include a picture of the place we went.
(I have heard rumor of people just submitting a googled photo of an island and then using the cash for not-vacation shit, though.)
Oh what?
That's weird as fuck. And kinda dumb.
BUT! Take a day trip somewhere and get the picture from there. Spend rest of time chilllllling at home. Beat the system man! Don't let it beat you!
+2
cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
The US government has been working on their rep of not actually being the servants of the American people for a long time now. It's a lot like how the reputation of the police has eroded over the years. Too much institutionalized bullshit and horrible actions. Folks just stop trusting or thinking of that institution positively anymore.
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I've done like 9hours in ER once, but I was really quite ok apart from high fever. They checked in every now and then.
I've had pancreatitis a lot and every time they've gotten painkillers immediately, even if a wait then followed that.
It's not really that you have to stand in line until any attention is paid to you.
The US government has been working on their rep of not actually being the servants of the American people for a long time now. It's a lot like how the reputation of the police has eroded over the years. Too much institutionalized bullshit and horrible actions. Folks just stop trusting or thinking of that institution positively anymore.
Not really???
In general the people that put up with shittier wages to work for the government actually do care more than your average office drone
People go to the DMV and have a shit experience and think it has anything at all to do with Medicare or the USDA
These agencies are critically underfunded and undermanned, OSHA can only visit each workplace once per ten years on average, and even places like DMVs and local unemployment offices are shit because of our non stop assault on government employees on the state level
"Hey, the government is pretty bad at serving the people. What can we do to help?"
"I know! MAKE IT WORSE"
"YEAH"
"They suck so lets cut their staff by 20% and make them all work more hours for no additional pay"
"We did that and their service actually got worse!"
"What?! How does that make sense, institute a general hiring freeze and take away their pensions!"
i'm real interested in like, the vacation/pto/sick time policy
because 4 weeks vs 2 weeks is a huge qol difference for me
PTO isn't a big QoL thing if you never use it.
sure, corporate culture pressuring you not to use PTO is a big deal. if i had unlimited vacation but knew it'd be unpleasant to use more than 3 weeks, i'd regard that as 3 weeks
I, uh, regularly get asked to use PTO near the end of the fiscal year so they don't have so much PTO floating on the balance sheets.
I haven't looked, but I suspect I'm near 250 hours banked.
oh yeah that ain't me
if pto is offered i will use it
i spent the first 15 years of my life with 1 week (or 0 pto period), so i am glad to bite up every bit i can find
My employer gives every employee who hits 10 years with the company $3000 and five days "free" PTO to take a trip as a thank you for the time and loyalty.
Mine's on track to expire, unused, in a few months.
I'm pretty terrible. I do not know how to vacation.
Just... take the time off and don't go in to work. You don't have to take a trip somewhere.
A majority of my vacation days are spent taking long weekends to just chill.
Well, for the ten year, you have to pay out of pocket and they re-imburse you. You must include a picture of the place we went.
(I have heard rumor of people just submitting a googled photo of an island and then using the cash for not-vacation shit, though.)
oh my god dude
take that vacation jesus
Well, my problem is that I have no idea where I would go. $3000 isn't enough to actually do anything interesting with a family of 4. Also, my wife's social anxiety has her in a state where she's terrified of leaving the doggos at a kennel. Not to mention I myself kind of hate the idea of having to interact with people, new location or not.
*shrug*
I took tomorrow off, though! I'm going to do nothing. Baby steps!
Maybe, y'know, the whole idea of health insurance being tied to your employer is insane and corrupt and evil?
The fear for americans is that we'd lose the health benefits, get no increase in our salary for the loss of benefit and pay more in taxes to cover UHC. Because American employers routinely fuck their employees to the limit.
That's a legitimate fear isn't it? Employers aren't going to funnel that money down to their employees if they're not somehow forced to.
eeeeh
I mean min-wage jobs will probably stay min-wage
but other stuff would adjust upward, there is some competition for labor after all
There's labor competition?
Besides being forced to accept lower wages to compete with H1-B visa workers?
H1Bs are a red herring
I keep hearing that.
If H1-Bs were used as they were supposed to be, I'd agree with you.
how many H1Bs do you think are issued every year?
they're real bad for the people that hold them usually
but imo the tech industry's railing against them is generic othering and the real source of the problem is that tech skills simply aren't as valuable as the good old days, while other expenses--heathcare mainly--go up, and the general thing that's happening across all industries where the upper class is stealing all productivity increases
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.
the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated
Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment
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I am awfully depressed today.
@Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud
having private money pay for all the R&D is objectively a bad thing
this is how you get 30 different penis pills while non-profitable diseases get shit-all in funding
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Tax dollars pay for a significant percentage of R&D, and pharma comapnies spend more on advertising than they do R&D
Well, for the ten year, you have to pay out of pocket and they re-imburse you. You must include a picture of the place we went.
(I have heard rumor of people just submitting a googled photo of an island and then using the cash for not-vacation shit, though.)
They spend more money on research for new hair products then they do on new antibiotics
If I had vacation days I'd use them for this
according to the canadian side of my family, they wait less than we do for surgeries, but routine checkups have to be scheduled well in advance if you even want them to be a thing, but, near as I can tell, US as a whole waits longer on average than a Canadian for healthcare.
Unless you're a US citizen who is paying out of pocket, then you can get in within the week.
I keep hearing that.
If H1-Bs were used as they were supposed to be, I'd agree with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9FlPeKKzA
And no one can afford those anyway :P
oh my god dude
take that vacation jesus
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Oh what?
That's weird as fuck. And kinda dumb.
BUT! Take a day trip somewhere and get the picture from there. Spend rest of time chilllllling at home. Beat the system man! Don't let it beat you!
Meh, it's not just Fox.
The US government has been working on their rep of not actually being the servants of the American people for a long time now. It's a lot like how the reputation of the police has eroded over the years. Too much institutionalized bullshit and horrible actions. Folks just stop trusting or thinking of that institution positively anymore.
I've had pancreatitis a lot and every time they've gotten painkillers immediately, even if a wait then followed that.
It's not really that you have to stand in line until any attention is paid to you.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
they well could be though if the centrist dem bloc had their way
"This is fine"
this is a fantastic use of new media
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I accidentally yelled at all of Nargirl's family (her mom, brother, and sister) before I left for my appointments today.
I'm sure everything will be fine.
This is why I keep paying rent to have my own place. >_>
Not really???
In general the people that put up with shittier wages to work for the government actually do care more than your average office drone
People go to the DMV and have a shit experience and think it has anything at all to do with Medicare or the USDA
These agencies are critically underfunded and undermanned, OSHA can only visit each workplace once per ten years on average, and even places like DMVs and local unemployment offices are shit because of our non stop assault on government employees on the state level
"I know! MAKE IT WORSE"
"YEAH"
One of them is an orc peon saying "work complete."
This is so going into my code.
"They suck so lets cut their staff by 20% and make them all work more hours for no additional pay"
"We did that and their service actually got worse!"
"What?! How does that make sense, institute a general hiring freeze and take away their pensions!"
Well, my problem is that I have no idea where I would go. $3000 isn't enough to actually do anything interesting with a family of 4. Also, my wife's social anxiety has her in a state where she's terrified of leaving the doggos at a kennel. Not to mention I myself kind of hate the idea of having to interact with people, new location or not.
*shrug*
I took tomorrow off, though! I'm going to do nothing. Baby steps!
US is suffering brain drain and funding issues in re: STEM
--Donald J Trump
I need some sizzle reel of special effects with that quote spinning around inside of it
how many H1Bs do you think are issued every year?
they're real bad for the people that hold them usually
but imo the tech industry's railing against them is generic othering and the real source of the problem is that tech skills simply aren't as valuable as the good old days, while other expenses--heathcare mainly--go up, and the general thing that's happening across all industries where the upper class is stealing all productivity increases
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
how does one do this accidentally
We require more vespene gas
It's kinda frightening at times too. Especially as a gubberment person.
the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated
Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment