Story 1. Wish the I.T guy just went "you just fired me, threatened to have me blacklisted within the industry and to personally sue me, why should I feel safe working for you now exactly?". Afterall, they did all this before hearing his side of the story.
His job security just went down the drain. He should have had that manager absolutely fired or he would personally leave the company. The amount of arogance the manager had.
I did that for what I thought was a too high a bill, come to find out it wasn't my chart/procedure that I was billed for. I do it routinely now. Great advice Alice 👍 👌 👏 🥰
Also, delay paying as long as possible and offer to settle for less. If they think they might not get paid at all, or will have to sue you to get paid, they will probably accept less.
When the clueless boss told OP they were fired for not showing up, OP should’ve called and said “Okay, well, if I’m fired for not showing up even though I literally quit, I’ll be expecting a severance bonus on my final paycheck.”
100% no getting severance, that’s not a fight they could win unless there was mention of it in an employment contract. What they could do is file a wrongful termination lawsuit, citing retaliation as the reason. They’d be able to get paid for the entire 2 weeks notice they gave and then get more on account of their former employer breaking the law
How many times do I have to spell out this message: "If your Business is set up in a way that one person is that integral to your success, then you better make sure to never, ever, EVER piss of that one person."
I used to work for a large engineering company. They had a policy of preventing any employee from becoming indispensable. I came close to indispensability, being one of two named software safety specialists. During downsizing I volunteered, and was accepted, for redundancy. The other software safety specialist was also close to retirement age. However, the business was already in the process of reorganising the safety function to provide cover going forward. Good management does exist in places.
The 4th story about firing a guy who is quiting. That sounds like Asian and Japanese work culture to me. Its all about loyalty to the company over your personal needs.
@@jimdob6528 you are right. I didn't included the US because unlike those countries we have worker laws in place to at least empower/ensure workers rights.
Medical worker here, most if not all hospitals are non-profit hospitals, so they have a charity pool that has to be empty by the end of the yr, like in story #2 if you make +/- x amount a yr you can apply to get any medical debt forgiven by that hospital. They rely on the fact most people don't know about it. But they have to publish information about it on the hospital website.
Our local hospital is non-profit but it doesn't help your bill. NONE of the ER doctors are in-network for ANY insurance plan, for instance. It's all a big scam.
"You can't fire me, I quit!" "You can't quit, _I_ quit!" "You can't quit, you're a frog!" "You can't frog me, you're my wife!" "I'm not your wife, you're _my_ wife!" "Oh hey honey, how was work?" "Pretty good, but I quit my job." "You can't quit your job, you're fired!" "*confused screaming*"
Tried googling this, looks like "Don't mess with IT", "Never mess with the IT guy" have no hits. Someone on Etsy does custom t-shirts, maybe this is indeed needed.
Honestly, the rest of the company leadership in that first story doesn't seem much smarter than dresscode guy is. After all their reaction to the problem was: oh, let's just fire and belittle the person that can fix our problems without even listening to his side first. What exactly was their plan in case he just went 'ok, bye!' instead of defending himself?
Don't be so sure. They likely didn't even know about the dress code change. From the sound everything started shutting down immediately so they didn't have more than maybe a couple of days to find out that there was an issue. I'm better it went critical the same day as well. Not much time for someone to get word up that machines weren't being worked on by the it guy.
@@olstar18 oh, I am not criticizing them for taking swift action, that is definitely a good idea. But especially if you don't have all the info, maybe the conversation with your *only* IT guy should start with something more along the lines of 'do you have an idea what went wrong and do you know how to fix it' rather than threatening termination and a lawsuit. If it turns out that the IT guy was at fault or negligent those things are still options obviously, but if he wasn't, you're risking getting rid of a key employee in a moment when you most desperately need him. If the protagonist of the first story had gone 'you know what, you just fired me, it's your problem now' rather than properly explain the situation and go back to work afterwards there is a chance they might not have been able to fix the issues in a timely manner, lost that contract and gone bancrupt...
The US healthcare system really is bonkers. In every developed country no one has to go in to serious debt for hospital treatment. Hell, even developing countries have this sorted.
It’s even worse if you’re poor. I’m currently in the “apply for disability, get denied, appeal, oops broke fingers (get anemia, gets sick, etc) , reapply for disability with new condition (emphysema, anemia), get denied “ cycle. I have 0 reportable income, I’m on Medicaid, and limited to 12 medical services per year - let’s see, 2 hospital stays fo anemia, gastroenterologist referral, endoscopy procedure, Er visit for hand injury, plus routine visit and labs - I’m out of covered visits in 5 months and I haven’t seen my cardiologist yet. Any other issues and I’m “paying out of pocket “. With zero income. If I get collectors calling and getting pushy, I ask if they accept food stamps. Going to garnish wages? Good luck. If I had income, you’d have been paid long ago!
@@lynneconklin917 I'm on medi/medi and didn't know about that limit. I have diabetes, a heart murmur, and severe back pain. If I only have 12 visits/procedures a year, the specialists I have linked up to determine if surgery is necessary will use my allotment up in August.
@@sherylcascadden4988 if you’re Medicare I think you’re unlimited unless it’s one of those medi/medi managed care plans and they have their own rules. My late husband had been on WellCare and they either paid so slowly or didn’t pay and all the providers in our area refused to take WellCare patients after a bit.
No such thing as, "No medical debt"; every medical system forces debt somewhere. In the United States, it happens to be financial debt. In Canada, it's temporal debt; routine procedures may be no problem, but less common procedures can have a wait-list that is two or three or four times longer than for the same procedure in the United States. Still elsewhere, it's quality debt; you don't spend a lot of money and can get into the procedure quickly, but the quality is substantially lower. Every healthcare model is a series of compromises. A combination of public coverage for routine procedures and private coverage for those that are uncommon or require exotic medicines or equipment seems to me to be the best compromise.
@@PhycoKrusk yo I know this is two months ago but right now in America I am waiting months and months for important and basic procedures so I guess I'm paying both anyway
@@groofromtheup5719 when we need it? Man what part of the states do you live in because I have always been made to wait at least a month unless it was a life or death emergency procedure🤣 Sometimes you can't even get a regular doctors appointment that quick, it's crazy. That "whenever I want" stuff is for wealthy folk I suppose, and I'm not even poor so we must be talking stacks👀 (Genuinely curious as to what exactly you mean by this, bc you can of course get emergency care overseas, they just don't have to go into debt to do it. ER is the only place I know of that expedites care, and they'll still leave you in the lobby in pain for 2+ hours. Could you elaborate?)
@@ArianaRaven it depends. You have the NHS and you have private hospitals. If you go to a private hospital, you pay, but don't have to wait long. If you go by the NHS it can depend a lot on how many people go there.
@@Forest_Fifer GP appointments near me take a couple of weeks (we have too few doctors and they keep building more houses) it’s the follow up appointments with consultants (neurology and stuff) I have to wait months for.
I actually turned in a resignation with a Sunday last day so I could support a new weekend process at my facility. My manager thought it was unreasonable to pay me through the weekend and made the previous Thursday my last day. I had a week of vacation planned between jobs and we were going to leave on Monday, but with the extra days off, we extended our reservation and made a longer vacation. Never missed a few days of pay she thought she was screwing me out of… and she had to cover the compliance tasks that needed done on the weekend. Why do these micromanagers think that we *want* to work out out two weeks and that they are punishing us by pushing us out early? 🤣
The 4th story: Op should’ve block their number or record it and threaten a harassment report. Insulting someone for quitting and believing they weren’t serious about leaving. I will find it extremely unprofessional. If that happen to me because I have better opportunity with my life. I’ll let them know, that I have a life to live and if you don’t know how to talk to me like a boss then a 5th grade bully, Don’t l! Ever call me again or this will be harassment.
I'm still shocked every time US medical care comes up. My SO gave birth and it was totally free. Epidural, emergency C-Section, week long stay because of complications. I think the most I spent was on coffee waiting around every night. I have type-1 diabetes too. I like the fact the government kinda lets me live. I pay €1.50 for a clerical charge every time I pick up my insulin. Literally covers everything. Insulin, needles, glucose test strips, new machine as needed etc.
I'm guessing it's a combination of arrogance and just not understanding that, in this day and age, having a good relationship with the IT guy in your company can literally make or break your career/company.
Story 1: I saw what you did there, OP. Dropping a Star Wars reference to see if anyone would catch it. *Just in case people don't know: TK-421 was one of the Stormtroopers in the Death Star that Han Solo and Luke Skywalker got the drop on when the Millennium Falcon was captured. Solo played off TK-421's lack of response to his commanding officers as a faulty comm.
I can never understand medical bills in America. My wife and I have had 2 children and not had to pay a penny for appointments, scans, checkups, delivery, care etc. Seems like such a broken system.
2nd story: Whenever I hear of a big organisation/company/whatever representative doing this kind of thing and resulting in the person having their debt written off, a part of me will always wonder if the rep was just that bloody stupid/arrogant or if they did it on purpose...
This was my first thought when OP mentioned that the rep kept cutting him off and telling him to go to financial aid. The rep gave themself plausible deniability and hooked OP up at the same time.
That’s definitely what was going on. The representative knew that they would never see the money and this was a waste of their time and wanted to help in a way that is in compliance with whatever policies they have to follow. OP is kind of a jerk here IMHO.
4th story: So many organizations forget that loyalty is a two way street. They expect loyalty FROM their employees but have no loyalty TO their employees.
Sadly, the people in charge there have the theory that respect & loyalty is demanded to them, but they don't have to give it in return. Thankfully most employees are getting wise to that and being loyal to the "Payable to" part of their paycheck, not who it comes from.
Nice hidden Star Wars reference in the first story. TK-421 was the name of one of the stormtroopers that was guarding the Millennium Falcon after it was captured by the Death Star. "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
I live in canada, I had a complicated birth. Was induced, did 9 hours labour in the end was put to sleep for a csection, daughter stayed a month in nicu were diapers clothes wips n formula was provided. She ended up needing surgery and a bunch of appointments and I paid nothing. Love canada, just show ur health card that everyone gets when there born and your good to go
Rule number 1: Never, ever, ever pay a medical bill. You signed a consent to treatment, NOT an agreement to pay. They can't force you to agree to pay up front because they can't tell you what things will cost up front. They'll try to bully you in every way, but stand your ground and get an attorney if you have to...some attorneys will do the work free of charge just on principle.
I don't it's petty and it probably hurt their relationship, the way op told the story it sounded like the guy was rude and he was also in the wrong and he should be kinder. I would say that she was in the most wrong though you don't wake a man up at 4 in the morning when he needs to be at work at 9.
That medical one hit me so hard. Back in October 2019, I had a fainting spell in my bathroom, and spent the next four hours in the emergency room. Tests, such as a CT scan, came back with the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope (as in, I put pressure on my vagus nerve, causing my blood pressure to drop, which made me faint; I was going to the bathroom and had a coughing fit at the same time, both of which put pressure on your vagus nerve, meaning I was assured to pass out). I spent those four hours in the hospital bed not so much freaking out about what was wrong with me, but how much this was going to cost me, and how I was going to pay for it. Because, I didn't only have the medical bills to pay: I also had a $30,000+ student debt, a credit card bill that was almost $1000, AND I had to pay back my father several hundred dollars for the phone bill. The medical bills (for the hospital, the doctor, the ambulance, and the testing) all came out to around $2000, but that was only because I had insurance at the time. Without that insurance, the bill would have easily been over $10,000. I told my parents that they should have left me to rot on that bathroom floor. While I had over $4000 in my bank account at the time, and could have paid off everything except the student debt, it would have really put a dent in my wallet if I paid it all off immediately. So I had to set up a payment plan to pay off the hospital what I owed them; pay my usual amount to my student debt servicer; pay the minimum amount I could on my credit card come it's due date, take a look at my finances at the end of the month and pay more if I could; and put off paying my father back for the phone bill. And while I feel bad about saying what I'm going to say next, the only thing that financially saved me was the COVID-19 pandemic. Because I worked in an essential business at the time, I still had a job when everyone else was furloughed; it was meager pay (no more than $200 a week), but it was something. Furthermore, my student debt payments were suspended, easing one burden for me. That, coupled with the stimulus check I got and my tax refund, I was able to pay off the rest of my medical bill, my credit card bill, and my father for the phone bill, leaving only the student debt left. And now, I am in a better job than I was in a year ago, and I'll have enough money to pay that off completely by the end of this summer.
Hey rslash "never mess with the IT guy" should be on a shirt, because of how many times it's been said on your channel 😂😂😂😂 Good job on the video as always keep it up
Oh my lord. That's last story reminded me of my partner and I. It was only about a month after I gave birth so I was super tired and still healing as a result, the dishes kept piling up. 1 night, He was hungry and went to make some food but there was nothing he could use. He got frustrated with me and I said you're right. I'll do them. Never said when. So I got up and did them ALL! It was 8pm when I started and it was 10 by the time I had finished washing, drying and putting it all away. And it wasn't until 11pm that we got dinner that night. He wasn't happy, I wasn't happy but I sure was satisfied.
Not only do I love listening to rslash everyday, but it is a key to traveling with our cats! Both of them will be restless and meowing until we turn rslash on, and only rslash. Then it is smooth sailing with them chilling and napping. So thank you rslash!
FIFTY DOLLARS FOR AN ADVIL? once again so grateful to live in Canada. I had a childbirth with so many complications and a C-section. 14 day stay for us. I don't want to think of that bill in the USA.
In US states that have "at will" employment, unless you signed a contract that states otherwise, you can quit your job (or your employer can fire you) any time, for any reason or for no reason. Giving notice is a courtesy, not something an employee is required to do. It also boggles the mind that an employer will think that they have any control over an employee who has resigned. It seems that they are so locked into the mindset of bullying their employees into doing whatever they want them to do that they can't quite wrap their heads around the notion that it's no longer an option.
I never understood why companies can fire you with no notice, yet you most of the time you have to give them 2 weeks notice or risk "burning a bridge".
$20,000 to have a kid?? Holy hell!!! What do you do if you break your arm?? Kidney stone?? Gull bladder??? Excuse my ignorance I’m from Canada we’re we don’t pay for ANY hospital visit…
In Australia, every type of medical treatment is itemized by the government with a ID number that you can claim on private health insurance or medicare (public system) the hospital can not just charge whatever amount they want.
The 4th story sounds similar to what's happening with my mom right now. She's hugely vital to the company (wears many hats, etc) but they treat her like trash and her health has suffered for it. Thankfully with mine and others' insistence, she decided to quit. Out of courtesy, she notified the company a month before that she would leave. They didn't seem to accept it. She even offered to train a new hire to replace her but they didn't bring anyone in. She gave in her two week's notice, and now the owner just flat out refuses to believe that she's quitting. He calls her talking about work things as if she'll still be there, and she's had to repeat that she's leaving multiple times. When she does, he conveniently "forgets" or doesn't even acknowledge what she said and changes the subject. He even tried negotiating a new contract that basically controls everything she does and pays LESS than what she was making and acted like it's a better deal. He knows she's irreplaceable and is clinging to her like glue yet doesn't want to offer a better contract. I'm just glad she's finally getting out of that garbage hole.
With story 1 it sounds like most of the company's executives are a pain to work with. Rather than try to figure out the problem, they wasted everyone's time yelling at OP with threats. It shows they are more interested in flexing their power they are in doing anything useful.
I can not imagine living in a society where you have to pay $20k for a birth... that is just pure insanity. I am so glad I live in a place where a birth costs you $0 out of pocket, no matter who you are.
Americans: "Thanks to our health insurance, the bill for delivery is only $2k but we're fighting to get the remaining amount forgiven." Aussies: "You guys PAY to have a baby delivered?"
We really should change a crucial line in our national anthem. Instead of "For the land of the free and the home of the brave", it should be "For the land of the free, for as long as you pay".
Story one: Why didn't he leave "I was fired! Bye!" God that'd have been soooo satisfying! I know people have lives and can't always. But damn it'd be so good.
That executive learned the hard way why you don't piss off your IT guy! You don't piss off the IT guy, you don't piss off people who handle your food, and you don't piss off people who handle your merchandise.
Medical billing in the united states is insanity, it takes months for the bills to arrive and you're usually already turned over to collections while your trying to get assistance
I can state from experience that, even with good insurance, if you go into the hospital on an emergency basis, you will get screwed, as it will turn out that a lot of your treatment was "out of network". For every medical procedure or consultation, there are (at least) two prices. There is the "in network" price, negotiated with insurance (or Medicare) and covered by the insurance (possibly with a nominal copay), and there is the "out of network" price, charged to anybody without insurance or with insurance that the medical provider does not have an agreement with. The "out of network" price is often as much as ten times the "in network" price. A lot of emergency care is "out of network" and you, as a patient, are not really in a position to accept only "in network" care. You will get bills from doctors that you have no idea who they are or what they did.
What is it with employers not understanding what quitting means. Long ago I was a sales manager at a tire shop. Well I had decided to join the military. And for some reason my boss thought I was joking or something. Six months before I was scheduled to ship out is when I told him and he kinda just looked at me weird and walked away. Fast forward and I put in my two week notice. He was surprised and asked what my next job was. I said the Marine Corps. I mean I talked about it a lot. He still didn't believe me for some damn reason. So two weeks came and went, I left my keys on his desk and clocked out for the last time. Mondays I would normally be the opening manager and when he got in at noon he was pissed that the doors were still locked and the workers were just waiting in their cars (this was when cell phones weren't common yet.) He called me in a rage telling my he's writing me up far a no call no show. I said "Ummm, I quit remember. I'm shipping out for boot camp." He said "When were you going to tell me about this?" I was speechless.
story 3: I think that the reason why the accounting lady refused to reimburse OP is because she might have gotten into trouble with the company for doing that once before. I think that had she been a reddit user she would have posted on malicious compliance about how she complied with her boss' orders and refused to average out an employee's expenses, thus costing the company hundreds of dollars.
So the first guy was fired, and THEN told to explain himself? Okay, so when we get to the bit of the story when the boss says "The dress code is revoked, now go and do whatever it takes to fix this", I probably would have responded, "Sorry, but I don't work here. You just fired me" and walk out. I've walked out of shitty jobs before.
The hospital bill story is funny because I distinctly remember my mom saying she NEVER paid the hospital bill for me being born. Just hung up on the phone calls and never responded to the letters. I still have no idea how she got away with it
For the second story with the medical bill; speaking from experience here most hospitals and doctors offices will agree to a payment plan that works for you to help pay off your bill easier. I remember having a $700 bill and calling their customer support line and being told that I could literally just pay as much as I could afford but as long as I was paying the bill couldn't be sent to collections
I love how some companies think that they legally can prevent you from quitting. They can't. They legally can't unless you signed some contract that says they can prevent you from working in the field due to some non-competitor clause or some bs. Which is why I always read the contract and even take pictures. Heck, I once had a company get angry with me for doing that, which raised some red flags, they probably wanted to add in some crap after I signed it to be scummy. I turned down that job.
Even then, challenge the non-compete in court, you'll most likely win. Turns out juries aren't too fond the "You shouldn't be allowed to work in your field unless you work for us" mentality.
About the hospital bill one: hospital bills are largely made up. the most important things I've ever learned about medical bills are: 1. always ask for an itemized bill. that often cuts the cost on its own because they realize that they can't really get away with straight up telling you they're charging $50 for an advil. 2. try to negotiate with the billing department if you can. if you're a longtime patient especially--my local hospital is part of a system that includes my primary doctor and all my outpatient referrals, so when I've been straight up and said I can't pay a bill, they're often willing to cut it to what I am able to pay. 3. if they're assholes like the billing clerk in the story, go full Karen. it sucks to be that person, but literally just asking for a higher up was once the thing that cut my bill nearly in half. These things might not always work, and obviously use your best judgment, but they've helped me out in the past, and hopefully they might help you too!
What sucks about the hospital story. There are some hospitals that operate in such a way that, yes if you are below the poverty line then you get your bill taken care of. However the flip side to that is, is everyone else's rates can get raised so the hospital can recoup the money. I really think we need to copy the universal health method. I mean 32 other countries are already doing it, why can't we? I might add we are much larger but that would make it that much more of a success.
If I have a bill I can't pay that was also unavoidable, like lets say I ended up in a car accident tomorrow and with an ambulance to the hospital, and ended up with a bill I can't pay, I've got basically a standard procedure. I'll tell them the truth - No, I can't pay that lump sum right now. No, I can't reasonably pay that lump sum in the next few weeks or even months. If you want me to pay you in a lump sum, for a bill like 2,500 dollars, it would honestly take me about 8 months to put together, and that assumes I have absolutely 0 unexpected expenses, or periodic expenses that happen rarely (like say car registration). I'll offer the following 2 options - #1 - I will pay a monthly payment of the largest amount I know I can sustain until the bill is payed. The first number I suggest will be the most I can do, so don't suggest a higher number. #2 - They can wait until I get the lump sum gathered and have 1 payment. If this is refused, I'll offer them $0. I had a student loan that I owed $14,500 roughly on, and paying it back wasn't going to be an issue if I had stayed in my career path out of college, but it turned out I hated working on ocean going cargo ships, so after 4 years I stopped. I was unemployed for a year, then got a job as a truck driver and now I barely get by working for my dad teaching people how to drive trucks at a CDL driving school. This loan had gone into collections, and the collection agency called me every month for like a year asking for payment of the entire loan in one batch and I used to just laugh at them. Finally, I got tired of this, and I said to them, "So, let me get this straight. You idiots think I let this loan go into collections, but that I still somehow have close to 15Gs just laying around? Yeah... sure I'll run right over to the bank and send that your way buddy. Honestly, when you ask such stupid questions, how frequently does it go well for you?" The guy responded by starting to describe to me how to get a payday loan. I literally said, "Whoa whoa whoa... so you want me to go get another, shittier loan, so I can pay this off? HAHAHAHA how about instead you just go fuck yourself and we skip all the bullshit in the middle." They called me back the next day and asked about payment options. I told them I'd pay them $100 a month until it was paid off, but if communication was started between our 2 parties, I would be the one to initiate it except in the case of sending notices that say things like "your auto-debit will be withdrawn on this date for this much" and if they called me a single time to ask for more money faster, I would go back to paying them $0 a month, like I had done for the previous 5 years. In the end, after about 10 months of $100 a month, we called them and arranged so that I now pay them $400 a month and my dad essentially raised my pay by enough so that after tax, I get the extra $300, and basically the business is paying off that loan because me having bad credit is more harmful to my dad's business than it is to me personally.
My aunt got a $250 medical bill after insurance. She went to set up a payment plan for the balance. She offered them $10 a month. The accounting person told her the minimum they could accept was $25. My aunt was on a fixed income and couldn't pay more than $15. After some back and forth the accountant told her it was $25 month or they would send it to collection. My aunt asked for a supervisor. After hearing my aunt's side the supervisor assured her the $25 was a suggestion and she could pay as low as $1 if that's all she could afford. The first accountant then asked if she was paying by check or if she had the $10. My aunt said after careful consideration and because she was so rude she could now only afford $1 a month. So the hospital billed her $1 a month for the next 250 months. My Tia was gangsta. RIP
I'm from Spain and the more stories of the USA healthcare system and society in general I hear, the more I believe your country is a fucking dystopia. My country has a lot of flaws we should fix, but I genuinely don't understand how USA gets to be the number one country in the world, the wealthiest and "most free" of them all. Clearly not free from university and medical debt. I didn't even know paying for delivery a baby is a thing, specially in a country that complains about low birth rate. As I read once, if in Europe healthcare is a right and guns are a privilege, in USA you make it guns to be the right and healthcare just a privilege, and that's pretty messed up.
You say "North America", but actually, it's just the US. Canada has a decent single payer healthcare system. The US's private, insurance funded system is the one that is totally insane, and though Obamacare did get more people covered, it did absolutely nothing to fix the underlying insanity of the system. But right wing politicians, aided and abetted by the insurance and healthcare industries, have done such a good job of convincing people that "socialized medicine" is worse that we likely will never fix it.
@@russlehman2070 Yes, my apologies. I was about to say just "American" but didn't want to ignore the countries of South and Central America as if "American=USA", so I added North, but wrote it fast and didn't realize that included Canada too, since we here sometimes say North America when talking about USA. I will edit it now. And I agree. Spain's healthcare system is not flawless, the bad thing about public healthcare is that you usually has to face long waiting lists for appointments unless you have something serious, but it's still way better. I have chronic pain, I have taken a lot of medication and had a lot of MRIs and other tests, and right now I was selected in a public program focused on effective ways of treating chronic pain, which costs about 2000€ in private healthcare. I have to pay nothing. My family would be bankrupt if I had to go through all of that in USA, all because of a condition with no cause. Can't imagine how hard it must be for people with similar problems and disabilities there.
actually, US system IS about freedom... you are free to pick your own insurance provider, with costs and benefits that suit you, or not to pay insurance at all and hope nothing goes wrong. I'm from Czech Republic and we do not pay for hospital bills - we have 14% of our pay automatically deducted and sent to "health insurance", pretty much becoming another tax. This has some funny side effects, for example you can pick the insurance provider - but there is no real difference between them, you can't get better treatment than anyone else even if you wanted to pay extra, ... From where I stand, I would much prefer the USA system.
@@vojtechsimsa5129 Well, as I said, with my chronic condition, in USA I would ruin my family. People born with chronic illnesses or disabilities should be in consideration. If you are only free from dying or from a lifetime of misery if you have money to spare, you are not really free. Either that or you are having in mind only negative freedom and not positive freedom, you should check out the difference between those two, and both are important. I've heard some pretty messed up stories about USA's system. A father that got testicle cancer (early stage and curable), and decided to not pursue any treatment and die so he didn't leave his daughters with medical debt. A mother crying because she works full time but can't pay the insuline for her diabetic son, a man that had a heart attack and while having it asked his family to be driven to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance because they couldn't pay for the ambulance. A system in which you are supossed to be free but every poor/low class person is scared of anything happening because they wouldn't be able to pay for the ambulance/treatment, is not a free society, you are not free of the fear of any emergency. A system in which the simple act of delivering a baby can cost you your savings is not a free system. Besides, even if it's free, it's not fair. a healthcare system driven by pure capitalism only guarantees the constant rise of prices so big pharma can make more money because people pay anything to stay alive. Many medications were created through public funding and they were developed to have free patents so they could help more people, yet companies privatized them to make money, the medicine is the same and the price is 10 times higher. A company that has to give their workers health insurance will go for the least costly one, no matter if it doesn't cover everything, and health insurances will try to cover as little as possible, many will pay for only part of the treatment, good luck if you cannot afford a 1000$ emergency even after the insurance paying for part of it. A system in which you have to pay whatever one person decides you have to pay in order to stay alive is not really free. It's like being mugged with a gun pointed to your head. Yeah, you are free to refuse to give your money, but good luck staying alive. Is that really freedom? To me, freedom is adknowledging you are part of a society and societies are built with collaboration and compassion, and I gladly will pay taxes if that means my money will help my own treatments and will help other people. So we are all free to live without being afraid of having an accident not for the accident itself, but for having to pay for it.
Just as a reminder, US Constitution guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Doesn't mean you"ll achieve it but you can pursue it. As for gun and our love of them, these rights are guaranteed just like freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and so forth. When Obamacare became the rule of law in the US, our healthcare went downhill fast. For people saying they couldn't afford insurance is bullcrap as most insurance programs were affordable until then. Mine went from 50USD a week to over 100USD, with less coverage and more deductible. On top of this, between medical lawsuits and uninsured, especially from illegal aliens, providers and hospital increased the cost for service to cover them. If an uninsured person visits an ER, they cannot be turned away and must be treated. If your running a business and you must provide a service to someone who can't pay, are you going to just suck up the cost or pass it on to other who can pay. And for gun rights, our forefathers insured that "we the people" controlled the government and not the other way around. If you have gun control, just how much freedom do you actually have before your government cracks down on you. Our government is reaching the level where the reset will probably happen, another civil war. Unfortunately that's the by-product of allowing communist, they call themselves liberals, to infect the society.
That last story is almost too real. People who work nights get sooo much shit. We're expected to be silent during waking hours while others are loud, contribute to loud chores, but not during our normal waking hours, and called lazy for having the same work-life balance as everyone else, but at a different time of day. Malicious compliance feels like the only way to teach these people a lesson on what theyre asking of us.
Every time I applied to Microsoft they flat out stated that the max term is 18 months. After that they lay you off for 6 months then you have to reapply. Since no one can be unemployed for 6 months people get other jobs and aren't available. So MS burns through a lot of personnel and are constantly training new replacements.
I agree with Harry Wormwood in the Matilda movie about the delivery bill.. "I'm not paying it, what are they gonna do, repossess the kid???" Although I'll be honest, if 2000 dollars would put you in "major debt", maybe having a kid wasn't the best idea.
all you have to pay a hospital is $5 a month they can't legally do anything as long as you pay monthly. something they don't want you to know but that is how you do it!
So Microsoft fired a guy who was already quitting? Like...they were going to quit...did they think by firing them that they'd magically just turn around and go "no no sorry sir my mistake please just let me keep working for the glory of Microsoft"??
It was more likely Morgan Stanley as Microsoft is not a financial firm as far as I know(it was written in the text as financial firm with initials Ms), but what you described is a common state of mind at the big corps.
You know I never understood why companies take huge risks that rely on one employee who they know is gonna leave, like come on it's basic science, if you screw up because they left then more people leave which means you screw up more which means even more people leave you put yourself into a cycle because instead of relying on everyone you relied on one dude you knew was leaving
When I traveled for work, I usually ate the same thing for breakfast (bagel with cream cheese, juice and 2 bacon). I had a $15 breakfast allowance with no receipts required. My breakfast was $5 with tip. When I turned in my expense report my manager refused to sign it because "no one eats the same thing every day". So, I kept the email and changed the expense report to come out to the same total, but changed the day entry by +/- pennies to make them different. After that I just put down $15 a day for breakfast. Yes, I kept eating the same thing when I traveled.
16:09 just a fun bit of why I hate insurance, all the stupidly high prices you see are set that way because insurance won't pay for low cost thing, so if they charge 50$ for an advil, insurance will 'negotiate' it down to what it actually costs, EVERYTHING you see that is an asinine cost is due 100% to the fact insurance exists.
The only power an employer has over you is your desire to keep going. If your desire is gone their power is gone. And for some entitled bosses it drives them crazy.
With the second story about the hospital bill. I was born in Canada and was really sick. If I was born in the US, I highly likely wouldn't be here typing out this comment.
God I remember my mom doing the dishes at 7 IN THE DAMN MORNING when I was growing up, didn't ,matter if it was the weekend or what, woke me up every time she did that cause she was super loud and stomps everywhere she walks.
Man it must suck to live in the US. I live in Canada and have 2 kids, guess what my medical bill was for each kid.... $0.00! Fuck I love living in the greatest country on earth! Lol. That's an actual fact btw, Canada is ranked number 1 best country to live in in almost every category.
I feel like the op "forced to eat at fancy restaurants" is kind of forgetting that he's in the exact same position he was in before. "We'll only reimburse you if it's 40 or under" is the exact thing that got him so mad. Your boss just got them to get you to accept the policy stupid
Last story: I don’t hold a lot of hope for that relationship, considering the actions of BOTH involved, especially if they make the mistake of getting married thinking the other will change!
Omg. This literally happened at my work the other day to a supervisor the day after she put her notice in, in front of everyone. I’m pretty sure that’s retaliation and harassment the way it was done and I hope she goes after the organization or at least the person did it. Everyone HATES that person and that didn’t help the case.
Story 2... I would have called back to the hospital, ask to the accountant's boss and say " can you please thank [insert name] for advising me how to not pay my bill when I was trying to pay it on installments.", yep, I'm that petty 😂😂
For those unaware about how things operate in the Healthcare system in the states, they will bill you for extra doctors for consultation fees, even if they were only in the same building for an entire different reason. Part of the racket of big pharma
@Sarafina Summers totally. On my first full year after knee surgery for a shattered knee cap. Got a settlement through insurance since it happened as the result of a shifted sidewalk pad and got some money through the owner's insurance, but even with that, I still might be out 7k...
Last Story: OP, if the 4 AM dishes didn't do the trick, can I recommend 3 AM vacuuming? Especially if you go up and down the hall RIGHT outside the bedroom, Exxxxttttrrrrraaaa slow.... And maybe sprinkle some added crumbles and crunchy bits and bobs on the carpet, just to make those lovely noisy bits to let you know how wonderfully effective the vacuum is being.
As a nurse I know most hospitals will set up a payment plan, as long as they get something towards the bill regularly, 100 bucks a month is better than them getting nothing.
Can someone from the U.S please explain to me why you don't have free healthcare? I'm born in Canada and have lived in Sweden since I was 6, and both countries have free health care payed by taxes. The taxes aren't even too high, yet we still have free healthcare. Why doesn't the U.S follow this system?
Because our government officials make money from stocks and donations from private industry and thus have a vested interest in for-profit systems that screw people over, like the healthcare industry. Also why we incarcerate so many people and why we spend insane amounts of money on "national defense" aka meddling in other countries.
Think that is hard to really answer in the comments of a video post, there are several sites out there that explain that. One part is what eevee said, private industry would lose money so nobody wants to go that route. While it is often ignored about 40% of the population do get free healthcare. And people already hate that their taxes pay for those people.
4:13 your running joke of "never mess with the IT guy" has been mentioned on reddit as well, and even a job that my cousin works, has an unspoken rule to not piss of "the geek" (it's an inside joke and he wears the title of "the geek" with pride)
I was charged $800 literally just to be told to go to another doctor for my anxiety/panic disorder. I had passed out and I was experiencing brain fog and I couldn't answer all their questions but the doctor chalked it up to me drinking an energy drink and being a dumb kid all because I mentioned drinking an energy drink a week before this episode. I was 20f. I begged them to at least check my blood because I wouldn't be able to afford to go to another doctor. I'm now out of debt but I'm raw dogging mental illness and my disorder on my own now with no medication or therapy.
When I was younger, I had a lot of issues with microsoft. Their software never quite worked right for me, and one time the trial version of MS Word expired which somehow locked the backup disc that my documents were saved on! Hearing that story of piss poor management at MS doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
The thumbnail story reminds me of this one scene from the asdfmovies: “You’re fired!” “You can’t fire me, I quit!” “You can’t quit, you’re fired!” You know how the rest goes.
I would have have been recording those conversations of my work place constantly calling and harassing me. I would have threatened them to stop falling me or I will file a harassment suit against them
if i was the first IT guy, i would probably have said after they revoked the dress code. "you just fired me remember? so if you want me to get back to work lets talk negotiation" (meaning raise/perks)
New Dad OP: Just to let you guys know: I used to work for the people who make Tylenol (not Advil, but American Home Products almost certainly has the same policy). McNeil Consumer Products (Johnson & Johnson company that makes Tylenol) literally gives the stuff to hospitals FREE OF CHARGE!
Story 1. Wish the I.T guy just went "you just fired me, threatened to have me blacklisted within the industry and to personally sue me, why should I feel safe working for you now exactly?". Afterall, they did all this before hearing his side of the story.
His job security just went down the drain. He should have had that manager absolutely fired or he would personally leave the company. The amount of arogance the manager had.
Exactly
Play greedy games, win greedy prices.
If I was the owner I would fire ass kisser and give IT guy the VP all's salary as a raise.
@@Stevonniewolf3113 That would be a perfect world.
“But I don’t want us to have any hard feelings. I’m happy to come back at double my current salary.”
If you get a hospital bill ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS request an itemized version of the bill. It will usually cause your hospital to go down significantly.
I did that for what I thought was a too high a bill, come to find out it wasn't my chart/procedure that I was billed for. I do it routinely now. Great advice Alice 👍 👌 👏 🥰
good ol merica
American problems
@@burntspider9485 dude but really :/
Also, delay paying as long as possible and offer to settle for less. If they think they might not get paid at all, or will have to sue you to get paid, they will probably accept less.
When the clueless boss told OP they were fired for not showing up, OP should’ve called and said “Okay, well, if I’m fired for not showing up even though I literally quit, I’ll be expecting a severance bonus on my final paycheck.”
100% no getting severance, that’s not a fight they could win unless there was mention of it in an employment contract. What they could do is file a wrongful termination lawsuit, citing retaliation as the reason. They’d be able to get paid for the entire 2 weeks notice they gave and then get more on account of their former employer breaking the law
"It's against company policy to quit on a Friday!"
"Oh no, what are you gonna do, fire me?"
How many times do I have to spell out this message:
"If your Business is set up in a way that one person is that integral to your success, then you better make sure to never, ever, EVER piss of that one person."
I used to work for a large engineering company. They had a policy of preventing any employee from becoming indispensable. I came close to indispensability, being one of two named software safety specialists. During downsizing I volunteered, and was accepted, for redundancy. The other software safety specialist was also close to retirement age. However, the business was already in the process of reorganising the safety function to provide cover going forward. Good management does exist in places.
As the understudy to the leading role of many theater performances, I wholeheartedly agree!
Not even that, the second the guy leaves your company dies.
Start TRAINING new employees to fill that spot, it WILL save your company.
Boss: “If you quit your fired!!!”
OP: “I don’t see the problem here”
OP: "Okay." **Leaves**
Boss: **Surprised Pikachu Face**
Being fired is so much better anyway. You can collect unemployment
S E V E R A N C E P A Y
Hermie: 🎵🎶 “Why am I such a mis-fit? I am not just a nit-wit! You can’t fire me, I QUIT, since I don’t fit in!”
The 4th story about firing a guy who is quiting. That sounds like Asian and Japanese work culture to me. Its all about loyalty to the company over your personal needs.
Honestly United States and Indian work cultures do this too. Seems like any major global corporations operate this way too…
@@jimdob6528 you are right. I didn't included the US because unlike those countries we have worker laws in place to at least empower/ensure workers rights.
@@mrphenom1643 not really tho. it only works on some things, like pay after work hours
@@strangerx8606 true true.
@@mrphenom1643 hahahahahahaha
Medical worker here, most if not all hospitals are non-profit hospitals, so they have a charity pool that has to be empty by the end of the yr, like in story #2 if you make +/- x amount a yr you can apply to get any medical debt forgiven by that hospital. They rely on the fact most people don't know about it. But they have to publish information about it on the hospital website.
Our local hospital is non-profit but it doesn't help your bill. NONE of the ER doctors are in-network for ANY insurance plan, for instance. It's all a big scam.
Boss: "If you quit, you are fired!"
OP: *"I see this as an absolute win."*
"You can't fire me, I quit!"
"You can't quit, _I_ quit!"
"You can't quit, you're a frog!"
"You can't frog me, you're my wife!"
"I'm not your wife, you're _my_ wife!"
"Oh hey honey, how was work?"
"Pretty good, but I quit my job."
"You can't quit your job, you're fired!"
"*confused screaming*"
@@Luigicat11 You said it first
at this point, Rslash needs to start selling "never mess with the IT guy" merch
Tried googling this, looks like "Don't mess with IT", "Never mess with the IT guy" have no hits. Someone on Etsy does custom t-shirts, maybe this is indeed needed.
I would buy
Honestly, the rest of the company leadership in that first story doesn't seem much smarter than dresscode guy is. After all their reaction to the problem was: oh, let's just fire and belittle the person that can fix our problems without even listening to his side first.
What exactly was their plan in case he just went 'ok, bye!' instead of defending himself?
Don't be so sure. They likely didn't even know about the dress code change. From the sound everything started shutting down immediately so they didn't have more than maybe a couple of days to find out that there was an issue. I'm better it went critical the same day as well. Not much time for someone to get word up that machines weren't being worked on by the it guy.
@@olstar18 oh, I am not criticizing them for taking swift action, that is definitely a good idea. But especially if you don't have all the info, maybe the conversation with your *only* IT guy should start with something more along the lines of 'do you have an idea what went wrong and do you know how to fix it' rather than threatening termination and a lawsuit. If it turns out that the IT guy was at fault or negligent those things are still options obviously, but if he wasn't, you're risking getting rid of a key employee in a moment when you most desperately need him.
If the protagonist of the first story had gone 'you know what, you just fired me, it's your problem now' rather than properly explain the situation and go back to work afterwards there is a chance they might not have been able to fix the issues in a timely manner, lost that contract and gone bancrupt...
The US healthcare system really is bonkers. In every developed country no one has to go in to serious debt for hospital treatment. Hell, even developing countries have this sorted.
It’s even worse if you’re poor. I’m currently in the “apply for disability, get denied, appeal, oops broke fingers (get anemia, gets sick, etc) , reapply for disability with new condition (emphysema, anemia), get denied “ cycle. I have 0 reportable income, I’m on Medicaid, and limited to 12 medical services per year - let’s see, 2 hospital stays fo anemia, gastroenterologist referral, endoscopy procedure, Er visit for hand injury, plus routine visit and labs - I’m out of covered visits in 5 months and I haven’t seen my cardiologist yet. Any other issues and I’m “paying out of pocket “. With zero income. If I get collectors calling and getting pushy, I ask if they accept food stamps. Going to garnish wages? Good luck. If I had income, you’d have been paid long ago!
@@lynneconklin917 that’s the problem, they assume you won’t pay not that you literally can’t.
This country is a corrupt oligarchal dumpster fire. We aren't a democracy or a republic anymore, not really, just a corporate hellscape
@@lynneconklin917 I'm on medi/medi and didn't know about that limit. I have diabetes, a heart murmur, and severe back pain. If I only have 12 visits/procedures a year, the specialists I have linked up to determine if surgery is necessary will use my allotment up in August.
@@sherylcascadden4988 if you’re Medicare I think you’re unlimited unless it’s one of those medi/medi managed care plans and they have their own rules. My late husband had been on WellCare and they either paid so slowly or didn’t pay and all the providers in our area refused to take WellCare patients after a bit.
Malicious Compliance: the subreddit that never gets old even though the outcome is always the same
It is the stories that get you
@@seanmccollum6751 yeah, the stories are amazing!
I don’t even care if they’re real or not, they make me happy.
Where people always mess with the IT guy, managers try to replace the irreplaceable, and surprised Pikachu faces are in bountiful supply!
@@everlasting9292 those are the best!
1st story, he should have just accepted the termination and filed a massive lawsuit with the evidence he had on the company!
Exactly, and given copies to the client so they could as well.
As a Canadian, I can’t fathom medical debt. We pay for hospital parking for childbirth. That’s it.
No such thing as, "No medical debt"; every medical system forces debt somewhere.
In the United States, it happens to be financial debt. In Canada, it's temporal debt; routine procedures may be no problem, but less common procedures can have a wait-list that is two or three or four times longer than for the same procedure in the United States. Still elsewhere, it's quality debt; you don't spend a lot of money and can get into the procedure quickly, but the quality is substantially lower.
Every healthcare model is a series of compromises. A combination of public coverage for routine procedures and private coverage for those that are uncommon or require exotic medicines or equipment seems to me to be the best compromise.
@@PhycoKrusk yo I know this is two months ago but right now in America I am waiting months and months for important and basic procedures so I guess I'm paying both anyway
@@LostStarzOfTheSky honestly, everything is pretty screwed up right now.
It's only going to get worse when we start running out of medicines
But at least we get care when we need it. I'd rather deal with medical debt than leave my wife and kids prematurely.
@@groofromtheup5719 when we need it? Man what part of the states do you live in because I have always been made to wait at least a month unless it was a life or death emergency procedure🤣 Sometimes you can't even get a regular doctors appointment that quick, it's crazy.
That "whenever I want" stuff is for wealthy folk I suppose, and I'm not even poor so we must be talking stacks👀
(Genuinely curious as to what exactly you mean by this, bc you can of course get emergency care overseas, they just don't have to go into debt to do it. ER is the only place I know of that expedites care, and they'll still leave you in the lobby in pain for 2+ hours. Could you elaborate?)
The medical bill one is why I’m so glad I live in the uk! The amount of scans, medication and other tests I’ve had would probably make me homeless.
How long does it take to see a doctor? Can you go in that same day
@@ArianaRaven it depends. You have the NHS and you have private hospitals. If you go to a private hospital, you pay, but don't have to wait long. If you go by the NHS it can depend a lot on how many people go there.
@@ArianaRaven I have to wait over a month, sometimes more when they say I have another appointment.
@@timehunter9467 I've never had to wait anything like a month to see a GP.
@@Forest_Fifer GP appointments near me take a couple of weeks (we have too few doctors and they keep building more houses) it’s the follow up appointments with consultants (neurology and stuff) I have to wait months for.
I actually turned in a resignation with a Sunday last day so I could support a new weekend process at my facility. My manager thought it was unreasonable to pay me through the weekend and made the previous Thursday my last day. I had a week of vacation planned between jobs and we were going to leave on Monday, but with the extra days off, we extended our reservation and made a longer vacation. Never missed a few days of pay she thought she was screwing me out of… and she had to cover the compliance tasks that needed done on the weekend. Why do these micromanagers think that we *want* to work out out two weeks and that they are punishing us by pushing us out early? 🤣
Because they view everyone below them as living paycheck to paycheck and being desperate for every penny they can get.
The 4th story: Op should’ve block their number or record it and threaten a harassment report. Insulting someone for quitting and believing they weren’t serious about leaving. I will find it extremely unprofessional. If that happen to me because I have better opportunity with my life.
I’ll let them know, that I have a life to live and if you don’t know how to talk to me like a boss then a 5th grade bully, Don’t l! Ever call me again or this will be harassment.
I'm still shocked every time US medical care comes up.
My SO gave birth and it was totally free. Epidural, emergency C-Section, week long stay because of complications. I think the most I spent was on coffee waiting around every night.
I have type-1 diabetes too. I like the fact the government kinda lets me live. I pay €1.50 for a clerical charge every time I pick up my insulin. Literally covers everything.
Insulin, needles, glucose test strips, new machine as needed etc.
What is it with people messing with the IT guy? Like first rule of dealing with Mr. IT: Never mess with Mr. IT.
Yeah. The IT guy is always overpowered.
I'm guessing it's a combination of arrogance and just not understanding that, in this day and age, having a good relationship with the IT guy in your company can literally make or break your career/company.
I have no pity for the foo who ignores that rule
Lol....TK-421 broke down because the IT guy wasn't at his post!! OP from the first story is a Star Wars fan.
I caught that too.
I caught it and smiled so big 😁.
Yes!! I came to the comments to see if anyone else caught it!! Love to my fellow Star Wars nerds!
Story 1: I saw what you did there, OP. Dropping a Star Wars reference to see if anyone would catch it.
*Just in case people don't know: TK-421 was one of the Stormtroopers in the Death Star that Han Solo and Luke Skywalker got the drop on when the Millennium Falcon was captured. Solo played off TK-421's lack of response to his commanding officers as a faulty comm.
I caught that too
TK-421 why aren't you at your post?
Had to scroll way too far down to find this comment!
This is a boring conversation anyway...
I can never understand medical bills in America. My wife and I have had 2 children and not had to pay a penny for appointments, scans, checkups, delivery, care etc. Seems like such a broken system.
Very broken. Not the only broken system.
"It's against company policy to quit on a Friday."
Fuck you gonna do? Fire me?
Yeah company policy we just made up on the spot.
2nd story: Whenever I hear of a big organisation/company/whatever representative doing this kind of thing and resulting in the person having their debt written off, a part of me will always wonder if the rep was just that bloody stupid/arrogant or if they did it on purpose...
This was my first thought when OP mentioned that the rep kept cutting him off and telling him to go to financial aid. The rep gave themself plausible deniability and hooked OP up at the same time.
@@Okibi09 You mean like Mr. Incredible at the insurance company?
@@DaremoKamen Yup. But since it was on a recorded line they couldn't be as direct.
That’s definitely what was going on. The representative knew that they would never see the money and this was a waste of their time and wanted to help in a way that is in compliance with whatever policies they have to follow. OP is kind of a jerk here IMHO.
@@Finder245 how is op kinda a jerk they did nothing wrong
4th story: So many organizations forget that loyalty is a two way street. They expect loyalty FROM their employees but have no loyalty TO their employees.
Sadly, the people in charge there have the theory that respect & loyalty is demanded to them, but they don't have to give it in return. Thankfully most employees are getting wise to that and being loyal to the "Payable to" part of their paycheck, not who it comes from.
Nice hidden Star Wars reference in the first story. TK-421 was the name of one of the stormtroopers that was guarding the Millennium Falcon after it was captured by the Death Star. "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
I live in canada, I had a complicated birth. Was induced, did 9 hours labour in the end was put to sleep for a csection, daughter stayed a month in nicu were diapers clothes wips n formula was provided. She ended up needing surgery and a bunch of appointments and I paid nothing. Love canada, just show ur health card that everyone gets when there born and your good to go
Rule number 1: Never, ever, ever pay a medical bill. You signed a consent to treatment, NOT an agreement to pay. They can't force you to agree to pay up front because they can't tell you what things will cost up front. They'll try to bully you in every way, but stand your ground and get an attorney if you have to...some attorneys will do the work free of charge just on principle.
That's nuts. You signed an agreement to pay...read it and you'll see.
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works here in the states.
If you care about your credit score, you kinda have to lmao
As a fellow night owl, I 100% support the the op in the last story.
I don't it's petty and it probably hurt their relationship, the way op told the story it sounded like the guy was rude and he was also in the wrong and he should be kinder. I would say that she was in the most wrong though you don't wake a man up at 4 in the morning when he needs to be at work at 9.
That medical one hit me so hard. Back in October 2019, I had a fainting spell in my bathroom, and spent the next four hours in the emergency room. Tests, such as a CT scan, came back with the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope (as in, I put pressure on my vagus nerve, causing my blood pressure to drop, which made me faint; I was going to the bathroom and had a coughing fit at the same time, both of which put pressure on your vagus nerve, meaning I was assured to pass out).
I spent those four hours in the hospital bed not so much freaking out about what was wrong with me, but how much this was going to cost me, and how I was going to pay for it. Because, I didn't only have the medical bills to pay: I also had a $30,000+ student debt, a credit card bill that was almost $1000, AND I had to pay back my father several hundred dollars for the phone bill. The medical bills (for the hospital, the doctor, the ambulance, and the testing) all came out to around $2000, but that was only because I had insurance at the time. Without that insurance, the bill would have easily been over $10,000. I told my parents that they should have left me to rot on that bathroom floor.
While I had over $4000 in my bank account at the time, and could have paid off everything except the student debt, it would have really put a dent in my wallet if I paid it all off immediately. So I had to set up a payment plan to pay off the hospital what I owed them; pay my usual amount to my student debt servicer; pay the minimum amount I could on my credit card come it's due date, take a look at my finances at the end of the month and pay more if I could; and put off paying my father back for the phone bill.
And while I feel bad about saying what I'm going to say next, the only thing that financially saved me was the COVID-19 pandemic. Because I worked in an essential business at the time, I still had a job when everyone else was furloughed; it was meager pay (no more than $200 a week), but it was something. Furthermore, my student debt payments were suspended, easing one burden for me. That, coupled with the stimulus check I got and my tax refund, I was able to pay off the rest of my medical bill, my credit card bill, and my father for the phone bill, leaving only the student debt left. And now, I am in a better job than I was in a year ago, and I'll have enough money to pay that off completely by the end of this summer.
Company: *messes with the IT guy*
rSlash: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man!?
Hey rslash "never mess with the IT guy" should be on a shirt, because of how many times it's been said on your channel 😂😂😂😂
Good job on the video as always keep it up
If this merch is not made then I will make it myself ..
Feel threatened
@@thatonepsycopath1273 has it been made yet? I'm waiting.
I'd most definitely buy that shirt.
Oh my lord. That's last story reminded me of my partner and I.
It was only about a month after I gave birth so I was super tired and still healing as a result, the dishes kept piling up. 1 night, He was hungry and went to make some food but there was nothing he could use. He got frustrated with me and I said you're right. I'll do them. Never said when. So I got up and did them ALL! It was 8pm when I started and it was 10 by the time I had finished washing, drying and putting it all away. And it wasn't until 11pm that we got dinner that night. He wasn't happy, I wasn't happy but I sure was satisfied.
I live in Canada and was born here, hospital bills cost NOTHING. The most you'd have to pay here would be for gas and stress food.
Not only do I love listening to rslash everyday, but it is a key to traveling with our cats! Both of them will be restless and meowing until we turn rslash on, and only rslash. Then it is smooth sailing with them chilling and napping. So thank you rslash!
That was probably Morgan Staney for story 4, not Microsoft 😉
Yeah, last I checked Microsoft was not a financial firm
It was definitely Morgan Stanley
FIFTY DOLLARS FOR AN ADVIL? once again so grateful to live in Canada. I had a childbirth with so many complications and a C-section. 14 day stay for us. I don't want to think of that bill in the USA.
In US states that have "at will" employment, unless you signed a contract that states otherwise, you can quit your job (or your employer can fire you) any time, for any reason or for no reason. Giving notice is a courtesy, not something an employee is required to do. It also boggles the mind that an employer will think that they have any control over an employee who has resigned. It seems that they are so locked into the mindset of bullying their employees into doing whatever they want them to do that they can't quite wrap their heads around the notion that it's no longer an option.
I never understood why companies can fire you with no notice, yet you most of the time you have to give them 2 weeks notice or risk "burning a bridge".
$20,000 to have a kid?? Holy hell!!! What do you do if you break your arm?? Kidney stone?? Gull bladder??? Excuse my ignorance I’m from Canada we’re we don’t pay for ANY hospital visit…
We sit at home and prepare for in case we die.
Rule #1: _NEVER_ mess with the IT guy.
Rule #2: When in doubt, see rule #1.
In Australia, every type of medical treatment is itemized by the government with a ID number that you can claim on private health insurance or medicare (public system) the hospital can not just charge whatever amount they want.
The 4th story sounds similar to what's happening with my mom right now. She's hugely vital to the company (wears many hats, etc) but they treat her like trash and her health has suffered for it. Thankfully with mine and others' insistence, she decided to quit. Out of courtesy, she notified the company a month before that she would leave. They didn't seem to accept it. She even offered to train a new hire to replace her but they didn't bring anyone in. She gave in her two week's notice, and now the owner just flat out refuses to believe that she's quitting. He calls her talking about work things as if she'll still be there, and she's had to repeat that she's leaving multiple times. When she does, he conveniently "forgets" or doesn't even acknowledge what she said and changes the subject. He even tried negotiating a new contract that basically controls everything she does and pays LESS than what she was making and acted like it's a better deal. He knows she's irreplaceable and is clinging to her like glue yet doesn't want to offer a better contract. I'm just glad she's finally getting out of that garbage hole.
As for the second story- you know a healthcare system is [screwed] up when you have to turn to complete strangers to deal with medical bills.
With story 1 it sounds like most of the company's executives are a pain to work with. Rather than try to figure out the problem, they wasted everyone's time yelling at OP with threats. It shows they are more interested in flexing their power they are in doing anything useful.
I can not imagine living in a society where you have to pay $20k for a birth... that is just pure insanity.
I am so glad I live in a place where a birth costs you $0 out of pocket, no matter who you are.
Americans: "Thanks to our health insurance, the bill for delivery is only $2k but we're fighting to get the remaining amount forgiven."
Aussies: "You guys PAY to have a baby delivered?"
We really should change a crucial line in our national anthem. Instead of "For the land of the free and the home of the brave", it should be "For the land of the free, for as long as you pay".
Story one: Why didn't he leave "I was fired! Bye!" God that'd have been soooo satisfying! I know people have lives and can't always. But damn it'd be so good.
That executive learned the hard way why you don't piss off your IT guy! You don't piss off the IT guy, you don't piss off people who handle your food, and you don't piss off people who handle your merchandise.
Medical billing in the united states is insanity, it takes months for the bills to arrive and you're usually already turned over to collections while your trying to get assistance
After my gallbladder surgery, I was handed a bill for $25k. They had already turned over to collections. I filed bankruptcy and got it wiped.
For the quitting story I would have moved up my quit date. “Oh you don’t want me to quit on Friday. Fine I’ll quit on Thursday.”
With the medical bill story, if you are lucky, you won't ever have to use the medical system in the US
I can state from experience that, even with good insurance, if you go into the hospital on an emergency basis, you will get screwed, as it will turn out that a lot of your treatment was "out of network". For every medical procedure or consultation, there are (at least) two prices. There is the "in network" price, negotiated with insurance (or Medicare) and covered by the insurance (possibly with a nominal copay), and there is the "out of network" price, charged to anybody without insurance or with insurance that the medical provider does not have an agreement with. The "out of network" price is often as much as ten times the "in network" price. A lot of emergency care is "out of network" and you, as a patient, are not really in a position to accept only "in network" care. You will get bills from doctors that you have no idea who they are or what they did.
What is it with employers not understanding what quitting means. Long ago I was a sales manager at a tire shop. Well I had decided to join the military. And for some reason my boss thought I was joking or something. Six months before I was scheduled to ship out is when I told him and he kinda just looked at me weird and walked away. Fast forward and I put in my two week notice. He was surprised and asked what my next job was. I said the Marine Corps. I mean I talked about it a lot. He still didn't believe me for some damn reason. So two weeks came and went, I left my keys on his desk and clocked out for the last time. Mondays I would normally be the opening manager and when he got in at noon he was pissed that the doors were still locked and the workers were just waiting in their cars (this was when cell phones weren't common yet.) He called me in a rage telling my he's writing me up far a no call no show. I said "Ummm, I quit remember. I'm shipping out for boot camp." He said "When were you going to tell me about this?" I was speechless.
story 3: I think that the reason why the accounting lady refused to reimburse OP is because she might have gotten into trouble with the company for doing that once before. I think that had she been a reddit user she would have posted on malicious compliance about how she complied with her boss' orders and refused to average out an employee's expenses, thus costing the company hundreds of dollars.
So the first guy was fired, and THEN told to explain himself? Okay, so when we get to the bit of the story when the boss says "The dress code is revoked, now go and do whatever it takes to fix this", I probably would have responded, "Sorry, but I don't work here. You just fired me" and walk out. I've walked out of shitty jobs before.
The hospital bill story is funny because I distinctly remember my mom saying she NEVER paid the hospital bill for me being born. Just hung up on the phone calls and never responded to the letters. I still have no idea how she got away with it
For the second story with the medical bill; speaking from experience here most hospitals and doctors offices will agree to a payment plan that works for you to help pay off your bill easier. I remember having a $700 bill and calling their customer support line and being told that I could literally just pay as much as I could afford but as long as I was paying the bill couldn't be sent to collections
I love how some companies think that they legally can prevent you from quitting. They can't. They legally can't unless you signed some contract that says they can prevent you from working in the field due to some non-competitor clause or some bs. Which is why I always read the contract and even take pictures. Heck, I once had a company get angry with me for doing that, which raised some red flags, they probably wanted to add in some crap after I signed it to be scummy. I turned down that job.
Even then, challenge the non-compete in court, you'll most likely win. Turns out juries aren't too fond the "You shouldn't be allowed to work in your field unless you work for us" mentality.
It is worth noting that the medical insurance story isn't exactly right.
Just because they didn't pay, doesn't mean the insurance company wasn't paid.
About the hospital bill one: hospital bills are largely made up. the most important things I've ever learned about medical bills are:
1. always ask for an itemized bill. that often cuts the cost on its own because they realize that they can't really get away with straight up telling you they're charging $50 for an advil.
2. try to negotiate with the billing department if you can. if you're a longtime patient especially--my local hospital is part of a system that includes my primary doctor and all my outpatient referrals, so when I've been straight up and said I can't pay a bill, they're often willing to cut it to what I am able to pay.
3. if they're assholes like the billing clerk in the story, go full Karen. it sucks to be that person, but literally just asking for a higher up was once the thing that cut my bill nearly in half.
These things might not always work, and obviously use your best judgment, but they've helped me out in the past, and hopefully they might help you too!
What sucks about the hospital story. There are some hospitals that operate in such a way that, yes if you are below the poverty line then you get your bill taken care of. However the flip side to that is, is everyone else's rates can get raised so the hospital can recoup the money.
I really think we need to copy the universal health method. I mean 32 other countries are already doing it, why can't we? I might add we are much larger but that would make it that much more of a success.
If I have a bill I can't pay that was also unavoidable, like lets say I ended up in a car accident tomorrow and with an ambulance to the hospital, and ended up with a bill I can't pay, I've got basically a standard procedure. I'll tell them the truth - No, I can't pay that lump sum right now. No, I can't reasonably pay that lump sum in the next few weeks or even months. If you want me to pay you in a lump sum, for a bill like 2,500 dollars, it would honestly take me about 8 months to put together, and that assumes I have absolutely 0 unexpected expenses, or periodic expenses that happen rarely (like say car registration). I'll offer the following 2 options - #1 - I will pay a monthly payment of the largest amount I know I can sustain until the bill is payed. The first number I suggest will be the most I can do, so don't suggest a higher number. #2 - They can wait until I get the lump sum gathered and have 1 payment. If this is refused, I'll offer them $0.
I had a student loan that I owed $14,500 roughly on, and paying it back wasn't going to be an issue if I had stayed in my career path out of college, but it turned out I hated working on ocean going cargo ships, so after 4 years I stopped. I was unemployed for a year, then got a job as a truck driver and now I barely get by working for my dad teaching people how to drive trucks at a CDL driving school. This loan had gone into collections, and the collection agency called me every month for like a year asking for payment of the entire loan in one batch and I used to just laugh at them. Finally, I got tired of this, and I said to them, "So, let me get this straight. You idiots think I let this loan go into collections, but that I still somehow have close to 15Gs just laying around? Yeah... sure I'll run right over to the bank and send that your way buddy. Honestly, when you ask such stupid questions, how frequently does it go well for you?" The guy responded by starting to describe to me how to get a payday loan. I literally said, "Whoa whoa whoa... so you want me to go get another, shittier loan, so I can pay this off? HAHAHAHA how about instead you just go fuck yourself and we skip all the bullshit in the middle." They called me back the next day and asked about payment options. I told them I'd pay them $100 a month until it was paid off, but if communication was started between our 2 parties, I would be the one to initiate it except in the case of sending notices that say things like "your auto-debit will be withdrawn on this date for this much" and if they called me a single time to ask for more money faster, I would go back to paying them $0 a month, like I had done for the previous 5 years. In the end, after about 10 months of $100 a month, we called them and arranged so that I now pay them $400 a month and my dad essentially raised my pay by enough so that after tax, I get the extra $300, and basically the business is paying off that loan because me having bad credit is more harmful to my dad's business than it is to me personally.
My aunt got a $250 medical bill after insurance. She went to set up a payment plan for the balance. She offered them $10 a month. The accounting person told her the minimum they could accept was $25. My aunt was on a fixed income and couldn't pay more than $15. After some back and forth the accountant told her it was $25 month or they would send it to collection. My aunt asked for a supervisor. After hearing my aunt's side the supervisor assured her the $25 was a suggestion and she could pay as low as $1 if that's all she could afford. The first accountant then asked if she was paying by check or if she had the $10. My aunt said after careful consideration and because she was so rude she could now only afford $1 a month. So the hospital billed her $1 a month for the next 250 months. My Tia was gangsta. RIP
I'm from Spain and the more stories of the USA healthcare system and society in general I hear, the more I believe your country is a fucking dystopia. My country has a lot of flaws we should fix, but I genuinely don't understand how USA gets to be the number one country in the world, the wealthiest and "most free" of them all. Clearly not free from university and medical debt. I didn't even know paying for delivery a baby is a thing, specially in a country that complains about low birth rate.
As I read once, if in Europe healthcare is a right and guns are a privilege, in USA you make it guns to be the right and healthcare just a privilege, and that's pretty messed up.
You say "North America", but actually, it's just the US. Canada has a decent single payer healthcare system. The US's private, insurance funded system is the one that is totally insane, and though Obamacare did get more people covered, it did absolutely nothing to fix the underlying insanity of the system. But right wing politicians, aided and abetted by the insurance and healthcare industries, have done such a good job of convincing people that "socialized medicine" is worse that we likely will never fix it.
@@russlehman2070 Yes, my apologies. I was about to say just "American" but didn't want to ignore the countries of South and Central America as if "American=USA", so I added North, but wrote it fast and didn't realize that included Canada too, since we here sometimes say North America when talking about USA. I will edit it now.
And I agree.
Spain's healthcare system is not flawless, the bad thing about public healthcare is that you usually has to face long waiting lists for appointments unless you have something serious, but it's still way better. I have chronic pain, I have taken a lot of medication and had a lot of MRIs and other tests, and right now I was selected in a public program focused on effective ways of treating chronic pain, which costs about 2000€ in private healthcare. I have to pay nothing. My family would be bankrupt if I had to go through all of that in USA, all because of a condition with no cause. Can't imagine how hard it must be for people with similar problems and disabilities there.
actually, US system IS about freedom... you are free to pick your own insurance provider, with costs and benefits that suit you, or not to pay insurance at all and hope nothing goes wrong. I'm from Czech Republic and we do not pay for hospital bills - we have 14% of our pay automatically deducted and sent to "health insurance", pretty much becoming another tax. This has some funny side effects, for example you can pick the insurance provider - but there is no real difference between them, you can't get better treatment than anyone else even if you wanted to pay extra, ... From where I stand, I would much prefer the USA system.
@@vojtechsimsa5129 Well, as I said, with my chronic condition, in USA I would ruin my family. People born with chronic illnesses or disabilities should be in consideration. If you are only free from dying or from a lifetime of misery if you have money to spare, you are not really free. Either that or you are having in mind only negative freedom and not positive freedom, you should check out the difference between those two, and both are important.
I've heard some pretty messed up stories about USA's system. A father that got testicle cancer (early stage and curable), and decided to not pursue any treatment and die so he didn't leave his daughters with medical debt. A mother crying because she works full time but can't pay the insuline for her diabetic son, a man that had a heart attack and while having it asked his family to be driven to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance because they couldn't pay for the ambulance.
A system in which you are supossed to be free but every poor/low class person is scared of anything happening because they wouldn't be able to pay for the ambulance/treatment, is not a free society, you are not free of the fear of any emergency. A system in which the simple act of delivering a baby can cost you your savings is not a free system.
Besides, even if it's free, it's not fair. a healthcare system driven by pure capitalism only guarantees the constant rise of prices so big pharma can make more money because people pay anything to stay alive. Many medications were created through public funding and they were developed to have free patents so they could help more people, yet companies privatized them to make money, the medicine is the same and the price is 10 times higher.
A company that has to give their workers health insurance will go for the least costly one, no matter if it doesn't cover everything, and health insurances will try to cover as little as possible, many will pay for only part of the treatment, good luck if you cannot afford a 1000$ emergency even after the insurance paying for part of it.
A system in which you have to pay whatever one person decides you have to pay in order to stay alive is not really free. It's like being mugged with a gun pointed to your head. Yeah, you are free to refuse to give your money, but good luck staying alive. Is that really freedom?
To me, freedom is adknowledging you are part of a society and societies are built with collaboration and compassion, and I gladly will pay taxes if that means my money will help my own treatments and will help other people. So we are all free to live without being afraid of having an accident not for the accident itself, but for having to pay for it.
Just as a reminder, US Constitution guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Doesn't mean you"ll achieve it but you can pursue it. As for gun and our love of them, these rights are guaranteed just like freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and so forth. When Obamacare became the rule of law in the US, our healthcare went downhill fast. For people saying they couldn't afford insurance is bullcrap as most insurance programs were affordable until then. Mine went from 50USD a week to over 100USD, with less coverage and more deductible. On top of this, between medical lawsuits and uninsured, especially from illegal aliens, providers and hospital increased the cost for service to cover them. If an uninsured person visits an ER, they cannot be turned away and must be treated. If your running a business and you must provide a service to someone who can't pay, are you going to just suck up the cost or pass it on to other who can pay.
And for gun rights, our forefathers insured that "we the people" controlled the government and not the other way around. If you have gun control, just how much freedom do you actually have before your government cracks down on you. Our government is reaching the level where the reset will probably happen, another civil war. Unfortunately that's the by-product of allowing communist, they call themselves liberals, to infect the society.
That last story is almost too real. People who work nights get sooo much shit. We're expected to be silent during waking hours while others are loud, contribute to loud chores, but not during our normal waking hours, and called lazy for having the same work-life balance as everyone else, but at a different time of day. Malicious compliance feels like the only way to teach these people a lesson on what theyre asking of us.
Every time I applied to Microsoft they flat out stated that the max term is 18 months. After that they lay you off for 6 months then you have to reapply. Since no one can be unemployed for 6 months people get other jobs and aren't available. So MS burns through a lot of personnel and are constantly training new replacements.
That seems...
...not smart.
I agree with Harry Wormwood in the Matilda movie about the delivery bill.. "I'm not paying it, what are they gonna do, repossess the kid???" Although I'll be honest, if 2000 dollars would put you in "major debt", maybe having a kid wasn't the best idea.
all you have to pay a hospital is $5 a month they can't legally do anything as long as you pay monthly. something they don't want you to know but that is how you do it!
So Microsoft fired a guy who was already quitting? Like...they were going to quit...did they think by firing them that they'd magically just turn around and go "no no sorry sir my mistake please just let me keep working for the glory of Microsoft"??
It was more likely Morgan Stanley as Microsoft is not a financial firm as far as I know(it was written in the text as financial firm with initials Ms), but what you described is a common state of mind at the big corps.
You know I never understood why companies take huge risks that rely on one employee who they know is gonna leave, like come on it's basic science, if you screw up because they left then more people leave which means you screw up more which means even more people leave you put yourself into a cycle because instead of relying on everyone you relied on one dude you knew was leaving
"... fix machine TK-421" LOL! And the problem really was caused by a bad communicator: The VP. That's hilarious.
When I traveled for work, I usually ate the same thing for breakfast (bagel with cream cheese, juice and 2 bacon). I had a $15 breakfast allowance with no receipts required. My breakfast was $5 with tip. When I turned in my expense report my manager refused to sign it because "no one eats the same thing every day". So, I kept the email and changed the expense report to come out to the same total, but changed the day entry by +/- pennies to make them different. After that I just put down $15 a day for breakfast. Yes, I kept eating the same thing when I traveled.
Story 1 has 2 lessons for management: 1) Don't mess with IT, 2) when the employee/DM asks, "Are you sure?" you double think what you just said.
16:09 just a fun bit of why I hate insurance, all the stupidly high prices you see are set that way because insurance won't pay for low cost thing, so if they charge 50$ for an advil, insurance will 'negotiate' it down to what it actually costs, EVERYTHING you see that is an asinine cost is due 100% to the fact insurance exists.
The only power an employer has over you is your desire to keep going. If your desire is gone their power is gone. And for some entitled bosses it drives them crazy.
With the second story about the hospital bill. I was born in Canada and was really sick. If I was born in the US, I highly likely wouldn't be here typing out this comment.
God I remember my mom doing the dishes at 7 IN THE DAMN MORNING when I was growing up, didn't ,matter if it was the weekend or what, woke me up every time she did that cause she was super loud and stomps everywhere she walks.
I find it odd when companies talking about employees being loyal to their companies when the companies are not loyal to their employees.
Man it must suck to live in the US. I live in Canada and have 2 kids, guess what my medical bill was for each kid....
$0.00!
Fuck I love living in the greatest country on earth! Lol. That's an actual fact btw, Canada is ranked number 1 best country to live in in almost every category.
Preach fellow Canadian!
Really, how can the US be the land of the free and so on? Here in Australia you pay NOTHING to have a child, NOTHING.
I feel like the op "forced to eat at fancy restaurants" is kind of forgetting that he's in the exact same position he was in before.
"We'll only reimburse you if it's 40 or under" is the exact thing that got him so mad. Your boss just got them to get you to accept the policy stupid
Last story: I don’t hold a lot of hope for that relationship, considering the actions of BOTH involved, especially if they make the mistake of getting married thinking the other will change!
4th story: sometimes you gotta use some choice words for people to make crystal clear you're not f'n around lol
I always love the change of voice “😐-The problem-😐 😩ONE DAY😩”
Omg. This literally happened at my work the other day to a supervisor the day after she put her notice in, in front of everyone. I’m pretty sure that’s retaliation and harassment the way it was done and I hope she goes after the organization or at least the person did it. Everyone HATES that person and that didn’t help the case.
Story 2... I would have called back to the hospital, ask to the accountant's boss and say " can you please thank [insert name] for advising me how to not pay my bill when I was trying to pay it on installments.", yep, I'm that petty 😂😂
For those unaware about how things operate in the Healthcare system in the states, they will bill you for extra doctors for consultation fees, even if they were only in the same building for an entire different reason.
Part of the racket of big pharma
@Sarafina Summers totally.
On my first full year after knee surgery for a shattered knee cap. Got a settlement through insurance since it happened as the result of a shifted sidewalk pad and got some money through the owner's insurance, but even with that, I still might be out 7k...
Last Story: OP, if the 4 AM dishes didn't do the trick, can I recommend 3 AM vacuuming? Especially if you go up and down the hall RIGHT outside the bedroom, Exxxxttttrrrrraaaa slow.... And maybe sprinkle some added crumbles and crunchy bits and bobs on the carpet, just to make those lovely noisy bits to let you know how wonderfully effective the vacuum is being.
As a nurse I know most hospitals will set up a payment plan, as long as they get something towards the bill regularly, 100 bucks a month is better than them getting nothing.
Can someone from the U.S please explain to me why you don't have free healthcare? I'm born in Canada and have lived in Sweden since I was 6, and both countries have free health care payed by taxes. The taxes aren't even too high, yet we still have free healthcare. Why doesn't the U.S follow this system?
Because our government officials make money from stocks and donations from private industry and thus have a vested interest in for-profit systems that screw people over, like the healthcare industry. Also why we incarcerate so many people and why we spend insane amounts of money on "national defense" aka meddling in other countries.
Because instead of going to help our own citizens our taxes goes to bombing others
Think that is hard to really answer in the comments of a video post, there are several sites out there that explain that. One part is what eevee said, private industry would lose money so nobody wants to go that route. While it is often ignored about 40% of the population do get free healthcare. And people already hate that their taxes pay for those people.
I can kinda relate to the last story, I'm a night owl too but my mom isn't so I always try to be quiet and only wake her up when I really need her.
4:13 your running joke of "never mess with the IT guy" has been mentioned on reddit as well, and even a job that my cousin works, has an unspoken rule to not piss of "the geek" (it's an inside joke and he wears the title of "the geek" with pride)
I was charged $800 literally just to be told to go to another doctor for my anxiety/panic disorder. I had passed out and I was experiencing brain fog and I couldn't answer all their questions but the doctor chalked it up to me drinking an energy drink and being a dumb kid all because I mentioned drinking an energy drink a week before this episode. I was 20f. I begged them to at least check my blood because I wouldn't be able to afford to go to another doctor. I'm now out of debt but I'm raw dogging mental illness and my disorder on my own now with no medication or therapy.
When I was younger, I had a lot of issues with microsoft. Their software never quite worked right for me, and one time the trial version of MS Word expired which somehow locked the backup disc that my documents were saved on! Hearing that story of piss poor management at MS doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
The thumbnail story reminds me of this one scene from the asdfmovies:
“You’re fired!”
“You can’t fire me, I quit!”
“You can’t quit, you’re fired!”
You know how the rest goes.
I would have have been recording those conversations of my work place constantly calling and harassing me. I would have threatened them to stop falling me or I will file a harassment suit against them
IT, janitor and the one in charge of the coffee machine and toilet paper are the 3 main kind of people I know you should NEVER p*ss off.
if i was the first IT guy, i would probably have said after they revoked the dress code. "you just fired me remember? so if you want me to get back to work lets talk negotiation" (meaning raise/perks)
Please, Please, Please let's have some Merch with "r/SLASH endorses: 'Never mess with the IT guy'" on it
New Dad OP: Just to let you guys know: I used to work for the people who make Tylenol (not Advil, but American Home Products almost certainly has the same policy). McNeil Consumer Products (Johnson & Johnson company that makes Tylenol) literally gives the stuff to hospitals FREE OF CHARGE!