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timmy wrote:Today someone in Africa is saying "I'm sick of carrying fifteen litres of dirty water from the town well to our home a kilometre and a half up a hill. Let's order modern infrastructure!"

Normally I hate that kind of FWP rant but jesus Zod, don't you ever complain about modern conveniences again.

Sometimes I forget what year it is.

I wanna know where he got that awesome suit

guys guess what

Fallon healthcare through Medicaid is different than just regular Fallon which I used to have

and my doctor doesn't accept it

so now I'm gonna have a bill just because I wanted to go see my doctor

yay

In what kind of fucked up country do you live again ?

Oh, yeah. The Land Of The Free (to be left to die if they can't pay for their medical bills)

Is it something you can dispute? Because that sounds really fucked up.

It's probably my fault for not reading the fine print.

Just do what I do: Don't pay the bill.

my mother will do something about it probably

she's a much angrier jew than I

Oxymoron wrote:(results may or may not involve debt collectors knocking at your house's door)

Tell them to fuck off and then declare bankruptcy?

Isn't it going to hurt your credit rating ?


There's also the option of faking death and escaping to Mexico.

If you can duck the collections agencies for long enough, it may expire under the statute of limitations. (There was an article in today's Oregonian about a court decision concerning the statutes of limitation in different states and debt collection.)

I've been to the GP three times in the last fortnight because of various maladies.

Hasn't cost me a penny. It seems so alien to have to get a bill for a GP visit.

Well that's because it's extortion, and it seems alien to sane people that you would have a legal framework for doctors to extort money from people.

Going to the doctor in America terrifies me because I have no clue if I'm going to find a doc who is actually useful or one who will waste my money and tell me I just need to lose weight.

If they tell you to just lose weight as opposed to ordering a bunch of tests, then they are probably a good doctor.

I dunno, maybe I've just had good luck, but my GP's have always been reasonable.

Specialists, on the other hand...
(to be fair, that was more an issue of me wanting/needing a shot he didn't have, but telling me that would have been more productive than telling me that the CDC was wrong.)

TOR: Kramer tells me that you are interested in an alternative to surgery.

GEORGE: Yes, yes I am.

TOR: (Blows into George's face) I think we can help you. See, unfortunately, the medical establishment is a business like any other business. And business needs customers. And, they want to sell you their most expensive item which is unnecessary surgery.

GEORGE: (Still on the showers) Can I use hot water on my face?

TOR: No. You know, I am not a business man. I'm a holistic healer. It's a calling, it's a gift. You see, it's in the best interest of the medical profession that you remain sick. You see, that ensures good business. You're not a patient. You're a customer.

JERRY: (He thinks this, the audience can hear his thoughts) And you're not a doctor, but you play one in real life.

Good thing I'm replacing the stock on this Mosin, cause they shipped it with the bayonet pressed against the stock. So there is a two foot long gouge in the side of it.

I just spent an hour and a half creating training documentation. My eyes are fucking bleeding.

Did you take care that even a fucking terminally retard can understand what you were trying to say ?


*had to experience first-hand what it means to write use-procedures for "complex" systems destined to computer-illiterate people ; sometimes even barely literate, period*

Oxymoron wrote:Did you take care that even a fucking terminally retard can understand what you were trying to say ?


*had to experience first-hand what it means to write use-procedures for "complex" systems destined to computer-illiterate people ; sometimes even barely literate, period*

i remember one time when i worked for the school district


a co-worker sent an email out to all relevant staff with instructions about how to do a thing

staff person called asking how to do that thing

co-worker asked "oh hey did you not get my email?"

"no, i didn't read it. it was way too long. if you want me to read it you're going to have to shorten it up a lot."

coworker:

If it was more than two standard Word pages long, it WAS too long.

Also, annotated pictures/screen-caps aren't a luxury in most of these cases. People have, in general, a far easier time understanding things if they are told them visually rather than textually (reading comprehension is never a given, even sadly for people with a college education...).


It really is a job.

But ever so satisfying in its own way when you do it right...


Anyway, I feel your pain, Zod.

Oxymoron wrote:If it was more than two standard Word pages long, it WAS too long.

probably less than a quarter of that