Horse with no Name (1000+ posts)
Tue Mar-02-10 11:31 AM
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I lost my job because I was sick (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7825736)
I work (ed) for the shittiest company in healthcare. A corporate whore in Nashville who pretends to deliver "quality" healthcare.
Big surprise that they don't. They treat their employees like shit. There are blogs out there in every city they operate that highlight the deficiencies of the company.
They have changed the absence/sick time policy 15 times in 5 years to their benefit of course.
Fifteen.
Their "newest" change has been that they force you to use your vacation time BEFORE you can use your sick time.
They use EVERY loophole to harass your physician if you have the audacity to apply for FMLA. They make employees fill out the papers every 3 months AND every single time you are sick trying to piss off your doctor.
They have conflicting policies. They "say" that you cannot work with a fever. However, they actively encourage you to take Tylenol and come to work. Throwing up? Dose up with Phenergan. Diarrhea? Take some Immodium.
Bring your sick ass to work!
Ancillary areas (housekeeping etc)...they drive them like SLAVES. They are scheduled for 12 hour shifts. They stand over them to get the checkouts cleaned and THEN send them home 2-4 hours after they come to work--depriving them of full shifts.
Some of them got wise to the practice and filed unemployment--those employees were weeded out in a company wide layoff.
I am NOT upset that I lost my job. I hated it and sheer laziness prevented me from leaving. Fortunately I will be able to get a job.
I had the WORST supervisor in the history of work. He needed anger management AND medication.
Skilled clinicians are leaving in droves.
They fought my unemployment. I won.
Slam dunk. No contest.
I should qualify for the COBRA discount so all is fine there.
This is the thing that FLOORS me.
Our 401k is supposed to be able to be funded back to us in FOUR days.
However...it has been 3 weeks and it still is not funded.
Why???
Because the employer doesn't have ENOUGH money in their account to fund it???
HOW is that even legal?
It sounds like fraud to me. Hundreds of thousands of employee contributions are deducted EACH month...and trust me, my 401k took a HUGE hit in the market. It is under $5k.
So...fighting this lengthy illness and losing my job--I have not been able to be a very good member...I will have to get my star back when my 401k funds back (seems like it might take a while!)
But...through this ordeal, it seems to me as if there should be some kind of safeguard to the employees that have 401k's.
They use EVERY loophole to harass your physician if you have the audacity to apply for FMLA. They make employees fill out the papers every 3 months AND every single time you are sick trying to piss off your doctor.
Horse with no Name
I lost my job
wolfgangmo (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Mar-02-10 11:56 AM
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11. This is NOT about you.
But in my opinion (as a clinic owner) that ANY medical professional that would work at a health insurance company should have their heads, hearts and psyches checked. If you are working for an insurance company know that you are putting your immortal soul at risk (or at least your self worth).
Just my 2 cents. If it was up to me we would round up ever insurance exec, top level administrator, IME, and major investor, line them all up in front of a wall and machine gun them and their children (to make sure we get their bad genes out of the gene pool) until their is nothing left but hamberger.
But I'm not bitter. I just get to watch what they do to decent people every hour of every day at work.
Go **** yourself. You too, Horsie.
Do I share a city with Horsie? Good gawd.
wolfgangmo
If it was up to me we would round up ever insurance exec, top level administrator, IME, and major investor, line them all up in front of a wall and machine gun them and their children (to make sure we get their bad genes out of the gene pool) until their is nothing left but hamberger.
But I'm not bitter.
wolfgangmo probably has a shrine to Joe Stack in his bedroom.
I'm out on a medical leave right now, as my Doc, in his infinite wisdom, had me on methadone for my back pain. After finding out how nasty that shit is I started tapering it off. Think heroin withdrawals! It's been 8 days now, a change in Docs, and I think I have it licked, finally! Damn, never, ever, want to do that again! Had taken lortab for years with no problems. My ex-Doc thought methadone would be better. NOT! It's more addictive than heroin and getting off the stuff gives one thoughts of just ending it all to stop the pain! New Doc thinks anywhere from 7-21 days and a risk of losing my frikkin' mind, to get it completely out of my system.
ETA:(http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/bruceptt/pic/XRay2.jpg?attredirects=0)Went by the office yesterday and they wanted to know how soon I could be back! Seems when I'm not there they have no one to pull up the slack. Horsey, I'm thinkin' was never going to be missed!
wolfgangmo
Just my 2 cents. If it was up to me we would round up ever insurance exec, top level administrator, IME, and major investor, line them all up in front of a wall and machine gun them and their children (to make sure we get their bad genes out of the gene pool) until their is nothing left but hamberger.
But I'm not bitter. I just get to watch what they do to decent people every hour of every day at work.
I don't know, maybe we should call Vanguard and report "wolfgangmo" for suggesting to use gun violence against their employees - AND THEIR CHILDREN. Seems like that's a crime, eh?
And they say we're the fringe and violent.
Man, Allo, so sorry about this! What a bummer. I'll include you in my prayers. Too bad you weren't a DUmmie as drugs would probably enhance your job skills.
Cindie
Sure does qualify as a hate crime in my book!
I'm out on a medical leave right now, as my Doc, in his infinite wisdom, had me on methadone for my back pain. After finding out how nasty that shit is I started tapering it off. Think heroin withdrawals! It's been 8 days now, a change in Docs, and I think I have it licked, finally! Damn, never, ever, want to do that again! Had taken lortab for years with no problems. My ex-Doc thought methadone would be better. NOT! It's more addictive than heroin and getting off the stuff gives one thoughts of just ending it all to stop the pain! New Doc thinks anywhere from 7-21 days and a risk of losing my frikkin' mind, to get it completely out of my system.
ETA:(http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/bruceptt/pic/XRay2.jpg?attredirects=0)
Went by the office yesterday and they wanted to know how soon I could be back! Seems when I'm not there they have no one to pull up the slack. Horsey, I'm thinkin' was never going to be missed!
My brother died of a methadone overdose....his wife's methadone. The coroner told me that he had enough methadone in him to kill several people. I'm so glad to hear you took yourself off it before you got addicted.
I was addicted! That's why I had to get off the damn stuff! Didn't realize it until I ran out on a Sunday and couldn't get any! That was last Sunday, I'm on day 8 and my whole body hurts. I changed Docs 'cause the asshole never even mentioned how addicting it was when he put me on it 6 years ago, then left me hanging out to dry when I started going thru withdrawals. The first couple of days is pure hell!
I always thought she was in Northeast Texas.
Three cheers for Vanguard Health Systems!!!! They unloaded a worthless moonbat and will be a better company for it.
The coroner told me that is is very addicting. I didn't realize you were on it for 6 years. Ironically they gave it to my brothers widow (I don't consider her my SIL) because she was addicted to oxycotton (she has facial pain). My brother was self-medicating because of an adrenal tumor that he didn't know he had, he thought he was crazy. She willingly gave him methadone knowing what it can do to someone who doesn't take it regularly. Her dose would be MUCH higher than someone who doesn't regularly take it. Even though he was an adult I place most of the blame on her.
What are you taking for your back pain now? What is wrong with your back?
She is.
The corporate headquarters are in Nashville, that's all.
In other news, productivity made a sudden 10% increase in Nashville this week, analysts are flocking to the head office of one particular insurance agency to try to determine the secret behind their breakout success.
It's either that, or if Ms. Ed in fact is an R.N., then she's lying about her income.
But at any rate, Ms. Ed, being one of the four drek primitives, a worthless waste of skin and oxygen, one sheds not a lachrymal dropping, not a speck, over her firing.
Yeah, Coach, I'm pretty sure she must have been a 10 key-er. Way too stooooopid to be an RN!
That horse DUmmie is one of my most-disliked primitives. Her vile bitterness overfloweth.
The violent machine-gunning threatening post is still up.
Allosaurus, I'm so sorry for your troubles. It sounds like hell, and you're in my prayers.
No biggee! I consider myself fortunate. I've never been out of work for any length of time and have supported my family without a problem. One takes what one is dealt in life. I don't know any other way to do it. Besides, it got me into Bail Bond enforcement! Now that is a fun job! I only do it part time now, but for a while I had a blast! Problem was full time takes me away from "Toots" for too long a time.
Thanx for your thoughts.
DUmmie said, "..... line them all up in front of a wall and machine gun them and their children (to make sure we get their bad genes out of the gene pool) until their is nothing left but hamberger."
Good to hear you beat it. I've heard people describe addiction as a "dragon". I only seem to be addicted to eating, I'm calling it "dragging". heh
Actually, that's pretty reflective of Ms. Ed's attitude about soon-to-be-born infants.
Ms. Ed, in case one has forgotten, is the High Priestess of Moloch to the primitives; compared with her, the defrocked warped primitive is practically pro-life.
In fact, I used to suspect Ms. Ed was perhaps paid by the Planned Parenthoodlums to post--like $20 a post or something, so as to supplement her $24,000-a-year income as an R.N.--topics and threads celebrating abortion.
Ms. Ed had a cow when Sarah Palin bore her son with Downs' syndrome.
The unappellated eohippus, as mentioned before, is one of only four drek primitives, absolutely worthless pieces of shit, and her existence, her Hate, makes me at times question my own pro-life stance; maybe maybe it might've been better if Ms. Ed's mother had practiced what Ms. Ed preaches.
Well, having the worst behind me, I can describe it as "Hell"! I can slay Dragons, after all, heh! I've always considered myself the meanest SOB in the valley, ( which sometimes can get your but kicked! ), but have a helluva time with the devil, doncha know! He can make things sound oh so sweet, right before he owns your ass!
Foul Ball, Coach! After seein' the Carl's Jr. avatar, I'm craving one of their Burgers! Now you're goin' to make me go out and get one! That really is below the belt! Heh, heh!
Ummm; that's NOT a Carl's Jr. logo. That's Bob's Big Boy. Only one I'd ever been to was in Reno.
So the old nag got put out to pasture. I hope she left pitching a fit so the whole office knows what they always suspected.
Our 401k is supposed to be able to be funded back to us in FOUR days.
However...it has been 3 weeks and it still is not funded.
Why???
Because the employer doesn't have ENOUGH money in their account to fund it???
HOW is that even legal?
The union pensions are similar in many ways to the Social Security and Medicare entitlement disasters looming for the US. Unions have repeatedly raided pension funds on the assumption that growth in membership would allow them to eventually cover all of the commitments to its beneficiaries. They need Card Check as a means to force millions of workers to start contributing to their Ponzi-scheme structures to stave off utter collapse.http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/02/video-the-partys-just-about-over-for-unions/
Yid with Lid has some interesting data on this problem:QuoteShould these pension plans collapse its curtains for the Union Leaders and it would not be the best recruiting tool for the labor movement in general.
How bad off are the union pension plans? The best single indicator of a plan’s financial health is its Funding Percentage. A fully funded plan will have a funding percentage of 100%. A plan is underfunded when the percentage is below 100%. The lower the percentage, the greater the risk that benefits will not be available when they come due.
According to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 multi-employer (plans set through unions and company sponsors) plans are evaluated via their funding levels. To ensure retiree benefits are protected, when a multiemployer plan falls below certain funding levels, stronger funding requirements become effective under provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Plans whose funding levels are below 80% are referred to as “endangered,†while those below 65% are referred to as “critical.â€
The SEIU National Industry pension fund is right at the 65% mark. The Newspaper Guild’s plan is at 62.8%, which is interesting in that newspapers seem uninterested in reporting on the problem. Sheet Metal Workers National is only funded to 38%.
Hm-m-m-m...
You should see the union pension funds:
The SEIU National Industry pension fund is right at the 65% mark. The Newspaper Guild’s plan is at 62.8%, which is interesting in that newspapers seem uninterested in reporting on the problem. Sheet Metal Workers National is only funded to 38%.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/02/video-the-partys-just-about-over-for-unions/
I saw recently where the pension funds under SEIU have dropped continuously under the current leader, Andy Stern. You know, one of the guys that Lord Zero has named to his newly created debt panel?
I am in East Texas
Unfortunately, real life isn't the only place that freaks can intimidate women. It is shameful.This happens quite frequently. I have had a stalker, and it did silence me to a degree and made me just a little bit more careful. It is very frightening and I have no doubts that freepers commit the majority of these offenses against women.:mental:
As a nurse, I have been involved in major traumas.
Nurse my ass!!!!!111111 If she is, she has to be the lowest paid "nurse" in 20 frikkin' years!
Allo,
My thoughts are with you! I have said here a few times that I took pain meds for about a decade or so. Morphine was the worst withdrawal, but Methadone ran a close 2nd. You are over pretty much the worst of it, but don't be surprised if you still have some issues for the next few weeks, maybe a month. It is pretty bad about screwing w/ your emotions. I did want to note something you said upthread-you said you took Lortab 7.5/500. It is not a codeine drug. It is hydrocodone. No different than Vicodin. It is a more addictive opiate, but delivers more pain relief. Maybe try Lortab 10/325? Less Acetominopen (the 325 mg) than the ones you use now, so less chance of liver issues, and the 10s provide more relief. Just my take. Hope you feel better!
She LOVES writing in her journal.
Nurse my ass!!!!!111111 If she is, she has to be the lowest paid "nurse" in 20 frikkin' years!
No biggee! I consider myself fortunate. I've never been out of work for any length of time and have supported my family without a problem. One takes what one is dealt in life. I don't know any other way to do it. Besides, it got me into Bail Bond enforcement! Now that is a fun job! I only do it part time now, but for a while I had a blast! Problem was full time takes me away from "Toots" for too long a time.
Thanx for your thoughts.
Aha.
There, Ms. Ed says she's a nurse, which could be anything from a CNA to an RN.
But in her comments at campfires on Skins's island, Ms. Ed is always very careful to gently hint that she's an RN, without actually saying "RN."
Sort of like the way the Bostonian Drunkard wrote his autobiography for wikipedia, subtley suggesting he has a law degree, but not outright lying about it; a case of just wanting the reader to think he is.
Maybe she went to some community college at night, studying to become a CNA, and worked her way through as a keyboardist somewhere.
Remember, before Ms. Ed was fired, she alleged she made $24,000 a year.
I dunno; would $24,000 a year be in the range CNAs are paid?
Again, an RN is a pretty expensive commodity for a hospital or clinic; they aren't just thrown away like CNAs and keyboardists. They have to do something pretty serious to lose their job.
Ms. Ed doesn't appear to be into illicit drugs, so unlike the defrocked warped primitive, it's unlikely Ms. Ed broke into any narcotics cabinet. If Ms. Ed is in fact an RN, it had to be for some really serious professional misconduct.
Maybe Ms. Ed smothered to death a couple of infants in the nursery, seeing as how she hates infants so much. Or something like that.
I'm leaning more and more towards this CNA or keyboardist theory, and that the unappellated eohippus was fired simply because she's a mean bitter nasty vengeful spiteful bitch who couldn't get along with anybody.
$24,000 is about $12 an hour if you worked 40-hour weeks with no overtime.
I think she's full of it.
Aha.
There, Ms. Ed says she's a nurse, which could be anything from a CNA to an RN.
But in her comments at campfires on Skins's island, Ms. Ed is always very careful to gently hint that she's an RN, without actually saying "RN."
Sort of like the way the Bostonian Drunkard wrote his autobiography for wikipedia, subtley suggesting he has a law degree, but not outright lying about it; a case of just wanting the reader to think he is.
Maybe she went to some community college at night, studying to become a CNA, and worked her way through as a keyboardist somewhere.
Remember, before Ms. Ed was fired, she alleged she made $24,000 a year.
I dunno; would $24,000 a year be in the range CNAs are paid?
Again, an RN is a pretty expensive commodity for a hospital or clinic; they aren't just thrown away like CNAs and keyboardists. They have to do something pretty serious to lose their job.
I'm leaning more and more towards this CNA or keyboardist theory, and that the unappellated eohippus was fired simply because she's a mean bitter nasty vengeful spiteful bitch who couldn't get along with anybody.
Okay, I'm confused, did she work for a hospital or an insurance company?
Cindie
Well, skins island seems like a target rich environment for someone in your line of work!
Cindie
Remember, before Ms. Ed was fired, she alleged she made $24,000 a year.
I dunno; would $24,000 a year be in the range CNAs are paid?
Vanguard Health Systems operates hospitals & clinics. Through a little google-fu, it appears the only locations in Texas are in San Antonio. Again, I always thought she was up in Tyler or Longview or somewhere in that area.
There's a major hospital network whose corporate headquarters are in Nashville, Tennessee, but I disremember the name of it.
HCA, perhaps?
Ms. Ed ostensibly lives somewhat north of Dallas, but she contradicts herself often, sometimes saying northern Texas, and sometimes saying eastern Texas.
The unappellated eohippus is so tangled up in her lies she can't keep things straight all the time.
According to the BLS, in East Texas (using Tyler as the location) that's towards the high end for a CNA.
For an RN in the same area though, that's not even on the chart. Low end there is almost $36,000 up to around $70,000 for an upper end of the salary scale.
HCA is here, along with lots of other insurance and hospital management companies. I don't know what it is about Nashville, but they're all over the place. Vangaurd has offices in Texas but their contact information says Tennessee. That address is a few miles from here.
http://www.vanguardhealth.com/
I was gonna say, my friend is an RN in Dallas and makes well above the high figure you quoted. She can't get enough work, and now she's going back for her BSN.
Yeah, RNs in Dallas do a lot better. $83,000+ would be kind of nice. And that's the 90th percentile, so I wonder what the top earners make. Lot more choices and competition in Dallas/FW though. Tyler has two big hospitals (Trinity Mother Francis and ETMC) while DFW has a lot more (Baylor, Parkland, UT Southwestern, Children's, Methodist, Presbyterian, more I can't think of...)
Medicine might be the way to go. If you don't want to be a doctor that is, with Obambi's reforms. Thinking about going from studying history to getting a surgical tech certification instead. A lot more employable there.