Washedupcynic
@Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I'm in! 3 days ago:
You should cross post this to a political meme sub.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 5 days ago:
Ok. I’m going to do a better job wiping the names and repost. BRB.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 5 days ago:
Many states are right to work, meaning that you can quit anytime. Unless you have stuff in a contract requiring notice, quitting without notice does not have legal repercussions. If you’re rage quitting a job, no sane person would use them as a reference. Finally, the bridges we burn light the path forward.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 5 days ago:
Here’s my rage quit story. I worked for a Fidelis Care. We got bought out by a large conglomerate, they fired half the staff and forced the extra work load on the rest of us. I took a call from someone that threatened suicide, and not a single manager in the company would help me connect to the crisis line. The caller hung up, and I still couldn’t get a manager to help me. I called local EMS and requested they do a wellness check. The suicidal caller called back to complain and I got written up. Then they started refusing to let me use vacation time and dangling carrots without putting anything in writing.
They were doing other things like denying free covid testing and HIV testing, which was against state law. I spent lots of my time helping people file external appeals and complaints to the state attorney general after Fidelis denied the internal appeal, against state law. The final straw happened during covid. Right before covid hit, a gentleman was approved for pain injections, but couldn’t get into the office before his authorization ran out, because anything non emergent was closed. Once the doctor’s office was open, the doctor submitted a new request, with the same clinical information, and it was denied. I put an appeal together for this man, painstakingly pulling the clinical records from the first authorization, the second authorization, EVERY PAID CLAIM related to his condition, AND EVERY RX CLAIM FOR PAIN MEDS the company paid for to demonstrate medical necessity. 4 hours of work. The appeals team denied it in 15 minutes later, it was absolutely not reviewed.
I logged of the phone, and prepared the most epic out of office message ever.
I emailed my boss, “I quit effective immediately.” I helped the man file an external appeal through the state department of finances. The state ruled in favor of that customer. Then I helped that man file a complaint against the insurance carrier with the NYS attorney general, (Leticia James.) The happiest day of 2026 so far was learning that our attorney general, Leticia James, raked them over the fucking coals.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
Did you watch the debates between Biden and Trump. Biden was far more articulate and sane than trump, and it still wasn’t enough.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
This. Democrats had no primary for presidential choice.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
I voted for Kamala, but I was pissed we didn’t have a fucking primary. If we had a primary, we might have gotten Bernie on the ballot, or Elizabeth Warren, or Butegig, or anyone else. But instead Biden claimed to be running, then dropped out at the last minute so opps no time for primaries. I’m salty as hell that democrats didn’t get a choice. It felt deliberate and coordinated.
- Comment on 'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise 1 week ago:
- Comment on Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet 1 week ago:
I spent about 1 year selling plasma; I already had a full time job, and other gig work on the side. It fucking sucked. You’d wait an hour to have a nurse take your vitals to determine if you were healthy enough to donate. Then you’d wait an hour just to get hooked up to a machine. For me, once I was hooked up, it took 50 minutes to fill the bottle.
Those bottles of Plasma retailed for over $1000. I got paid $60 a bottle. I could donate twice a week. Every moment of it sucked and it left scars in my arms.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t find it awkward at all. If someone’s not into me, they are not into me. I’ll respect their wishes, keep any further conversation with them brief and at acquaintance level, and move on with my life. We all have preferences, and I’m not interested in being fixated on someone that turns me down. There are plenty of other people in the world. My life peaceful and I am ok with being alone and doing my own thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I feel like if a guy wants to know if a woman is interested explicit relations, he should just come out and ask, and if the answer is no, he should accept it. Why can’t clear and direct communication be a thing?
- Comment on This "March for Billionaires" event in SF happening today 1 week ago:
SAN FRANCISCO — As California struggles with homelessness and healthcare cuts, some activists are taking on an unexpected cause: fighting for billionaires.
About a dozen people took part in the “March for Billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich. Although some assumed the event was satire, organizer Derik Kauffman said it was a sincere protest against a potential new tax on the state’s wealthiest residents.
And 10-20 to people showed up to actually protest.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
I did this too and I was still blocked. I ended up creating an account and was able to view content logged into an account. I really didn’t want a reddit account though.
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
Traditionally, men have been taught that to get married or have a partner, they need to be the breadwinner. This is partly due to women not having the right to own property, have a bank account, or credit cards until the 1960s/1970s. This means that there is a subset of men raised to believe having a job makes them an attractive partner, and that’s the only thing they need to be an attractive partner.
Women on the other hand, have been entering the workforce, and the pay gap has narrowed. Now women make on average $0.85 to every dollar a man makes. Women can be and are financially independent. So now, as a man or potential partner, you have to bring more to the table than having a job.
I think this has led to the incel crisis. You have a subset of men that are emotionally stunted because they were not taught better; while women have a the peace and security that independence brings and they aren’t going to disrupt that for just anyone.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
Also not incognito.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren’t logged inImage?
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 weeks ago:
That compound is capsaicin.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Charle’s and Boyle’s gas laws. PV = nRT. As the temperature rises it creates a sudden increase in the volume and pressure of the immediate air. The increase pressure and volume in a closed room forces the fan blades to turn.
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 2 weeks ago:
If the stuff is oil based, dousing your face with cream, which is full of oil would get the crap out of your eyes faster, then you douse with water to disperse what’s left of the oil/lipid.
- Comment on lightbulbs 2 weeks ago:
As someone with shit vision, I also want my house lit up like a hospital.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
AMD is an option and many are switching. More support for AMD in linux too.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
😂 🤣
- Comment on smh 3 weeks ago:
100 m = 100 meters = 0.1 kilometers. Miles is abbreviated mi, as in 100 mi. I’m disappointed in you, The Picard Maneuver. Your jokes, shitposts, and memes are usually so much better than this. Are you ok?
- Comment on Life meta 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on This kid gets it 3 weeks ago:
The kids are alright.
- Comment on there i fixed it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 4 weeks ago:
That’s an apt metaphor.
- Comment on Tips 5 weeks ago:
Baby is born
Doctor: How did you like your free 9 month trial of life?
Baby: What do you mean free trial?
Doctor: It costs money to live.
Baby: Frantically tries to climb back into the womb.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 5 weeks ago:
Crunchyroll subtitles are absolute dogshit now. I am mad enough to cancel my account. Fucking sad that pirating will get me a better product than the one I was paying for.
