2010 post calling Muslims generally awful gets that many likes. 2020 post of the same gets blasted until that poster wants to quit posting here.
My wife. We had a dr appointment and the dr wrote a letter stating that due to my wife being pregnant (7 months) and her high blood pressure on top of my anxiety and high blood pressure it was recommended I work from home and not return to the office. Work from home was denied by my job (for no reason) and I was told to apply for fmla. I haven’t been there a year so I don’t qualify for fmla so I was told to apply for short term disability. It is still pending but the fmla denial was processed today so hr called me and said I had to return to work until they hear otherwise. It’s a shit situation because there’s not a chance in hell I don’t catch it there.
I would make sure to make your own mask, its not hard. Two rubber bands and a piece of cloth would go a long ways to at least slowing the virus down before you can inhale it. There are a ton of videos on the web, no sewing needed.
I have two dentist friends who were straight up laid off. Luckily their parents are pretty well off, but if we are only going off of anecdotal evidence, my point contradicts your point.
My mil made us some. There’s no way I don’t get told to take it off. We’re talking about La Porte Texas morons
That's awful man. Sucks you can't change jobs rn I'd leak some shit to the news and if anyone asks you do something after hours tell em to fuck off and you can't wfh
I plan on videoing all the non-social distancing I see. Taking pics of office with no masks etc. I know who I work with and there is no way they are taking any measures and not still calling this fake news
I also assume I’ll get a lot of shit talked to me and ask how my “vacation” was. I plan to respond with “oh just great. Staying inside being safe with my pregnant wife while applying for jobs”
After my Mom was in facility with positive patient, showed symptoms, got tested, etc. (still no results) first thing her boss asked was "when are you getting results" (aka when can you get back to the office) and then her first day at home "how was the Jerry Springer show today?"
Starting next month, 10% deduction in my salary and a hold on my 401k. Feels like the first steps towards a lay-off.
Oh absolutely they’ll talk shit. I don’t care because I have no intention of staying at this company. I’ve been looking before all of this because it’s just too far of a commute and working 10-12 hours a day and every other weekend I’ll never see my son so my gloves are off and my give a damn is completely empty. I just don’t want to quit
Example: pre-COVID roughly 20-25 NYers died every day at home. Now, they are getting roughly 200 deaths a day at home... and none of those are being counted as COVID deaths. Seems... off.
City council down in Marco Island, FL voted to reopen beaches, but then the community shamed them into reversing the decision. Glad to see the olds starting to take it more serious down here.
I am closing a mortgage refi today at 3. Alabama has implemented loopholes to allow for social distancing now with these transactions. I have heard examples of everything from you sign the documents in your car and then they come get them, to you wait in the parking lot until the room has been cleaned from prior signing before coming in to close. I called the attorney’s office just now to see if they were doing anything differently and they said “ Haha if you aren’t afraid we aren’t!”
sorry to hear man. I’ve actually been through that process over the last year due to medical issues and it sucks. Hopefully things move forward and you get the FMLA/STD that you need approved.
Have a guy I went to law school with that used to be a total right-wing Obama-hating nutjob, but seems to be doing a heel-turn. Just posted this article. Know nothing about the author, but pretty good points. A much more eloquent way of my thought process that working your ass off and being a slave to money is such fucking bullshit. A bittersweet symphony, if you will. https://talkmarkets.com/content/eco...-so-rigged-brittle-and-exploitive?post=257591 Spoiler The Lockdown Wouldn't Be So Devastating If Our Economy Wasn't So Rigged, Brittle And Exploitive By Charles Hugh Smith of Of Two Minds Tuesday, April 7, 2020 2:29 AM EDT An economy of rackets designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many is brittle because self-serving rackets snuff out competition, accountability and transparency. What's remarkable about the lockdown isn't the hue and cry about the economic damage--it's the absence of any critical curiosity as to how our economy became so fragile that only the wealthiest contingent can survive a few weeks on savings or rainy-day funds. A healthy, resilient economy would be able to survive a few weeks of lockdown without a multi-trillion dollar bailout of every racket in the land. A society that wasn't threadbare financially and socially would be able to function and accept individual sacrifices for the common good. Rather than being organized to serve the common good, our economy and social order is little more than overlapping rackets: rigged "markets" operated by quasi-monopolies to enrich the few at the expense of the many; brittle bureaucracies bound by thousands of pages of mindless "compliance" and exploitive neo-feudal structures in which debt-serfs are paid just enough to service their debt but not enough to afford skyrocketing costs for housing, healthcare, higher education, childcare, junk fees, and taxes. While everyone is busy screaming about the damage done by the lockdown, nobody's asking why costs are so high that few can survive a few weeks on their own means. Nobody dares look at the soaring costs imposed by cartels and monopolies (including government and government-funded rackets such as healthcare and higher education) because it might shine a light on the money-trough they're feeding from. (Crush every racket but mine...) If costs weren't so crushing, more households and enterprises might have savings. Empires don't collapse because everyone ran out of money; they collapse when the costs exceed earnings. Put another way, the skyrocketing costs of self-serving sclerotic complexity, a.k.a. convoluted inefficiencies imposed by institutions which lack any accountability, far exceed the gains in productivity and resource mining needed to pay for the productivity-draining complexity. As for innovation--please don't make us laugh. All the rackets work overtime to avoid being disrupted by the forces of productivity and transparency. Just look at higher education: all the technology was available a decade ago to radically reduce the costs of effective education, (as I outlined in my 2012 book The Nearly Free University), but the higher education cartel fought to maintain its monopoly on credentials, squandering hundreds of billions of dollars on layers of administrators and self-glorifying buildings. I've been explaining How Healthcare Is Dooming the U.S. Economy for years. Now it's becoming too obvious to deny. Sickcare Will Bankrupt the Nation (March 21, 2011). Just as Wall Street destroyed the private-sector mortgage market by financializing it, healthcare has been destroyed by Corporate America's financialization of what was once for the common good, turning it into a hollowed-out profit machine for the few at the expense of the luckless serfs who have no choice but to serve the Financial Nobility. (You can pick any health insurer you want--but there's only two, heh, and their prices are the same: Kafkaesque in their opaque complexity, and high enough to bankrupt all but the wealthiest.) An economy of rackets designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many is brittle because self-serving rackets snuff out competition, accountability and transparency. As I noted in The Convergence of Marx, Orwell and Kafka (July 25, 2012), Marx understood that predatory, parasitic Monopoly Capitalism melts any social norms that restrict its dominance into air, while Kafka understood that the the more powerful and entrenched the bureaucracy, the greater the collateral damage rained on the innocent, and the more extreme the perversion of justice. Orwell understood that the State's ontological imperative is expansion, to the point where it controls every level of governance, markets and society. Once the State escapes the control of the citizenry, it is free to exploit them in a parasitic predation that is the mirror-image of Monopoly Capital. For what is the State but a monopoly of force, coercion, data manipulation and the neo-feudal enforcement of crony-capitalist private monopolies on powerless serfs? Neofeudal exploitation has hollowed out the economy, leaving a fragile, brittle shell of rackets, self-serving cartels and institutions that have squandered the public's trust in their greedy rush to accumulate as much private wealth as they can before the whole rotten corrupt structure collapses under its own weight.
It's not an AL loophole, people are closing loans in every state. Most clients have said it's as simple as the notary leaves the docs on a table, walk 10 feet away, you walk up and sign, you step back, the notary then signs and you're done. You don't have to sit next to each other to both sign a set of docs.
yep. But these guys don’t think it’s necessary! fun fact that they don’t know is I’m refinancing through the bank I work for, and our mortgage department is going to get an email from me tonight recommending we take them off our approved attorney list
Hospitals and docs have been reporting not seeing patients for other conditions that they'd normally see. My guess is at least some of these deaths are regular STEMI and other emergent situations where people are too afraid to seek medical care. So indirect Covid deaths.
Well yea, if they are just going about business as usual, that's just dumb. Luckily I haven't had any title offices or notaries do that. It can be done responsibly.
Yeah; saw a headline the other day where higher than normal volumes of patients were dying of cardiac arrest in the ER before they got to see a doctor. Probably 2 causes, both of which are COVID related, 1) people are reticent to seek medical help with a pandemic ongoing, 2) ERs are flooded with COVID patients.
Yep, it’s what makes all these people filming their local ERs so silly. Yes, many people who use the ED as their doctor’s office aren’t going in, but also many people who legitimately should be seen are avoiding it because they are too scared to be near a hospital right now.
Many, if not most EDs are not flooded with COVID patients, as they are checked in through a different corridor and evacuated there. From there, it can either be admission or sent home. Not saying this is what all hospitals are doing, but the ones who can, are.
FEMA is now distributing medical supplies, but it's still the Trump-and-Jared corrupt clown show The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they're on their own in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local governments or hospitals—or other countries—have ordered. From Jared Kushner insisting that “the federal stockpile is supposed to be our stockpile, not supposed to be state stockpiles,” to the federal government preventing states from getting equipment anywhere other than the federal government. But as the federal government, in the form of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, finally, finally gets ramped up to obtain the amount of personal protective equipment and ventilators that it should have been acquiring in January or early February, it’s repeatedly screwing over states, local governments, and hospitals. As Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said on CNN, “Either be in or out, folks. Either you’re buying them and you’re providing them to the states and you’re letting us know what we’re going to get and when we’re going to get them, or stay out and let us buy them.” But that’s not how the Trump administration operates. “FEMA realizes that prioritizing P.P.E. deliveries to Covid hot spots can have the unintended consequence of disrupting the regular supply chain deliveries to other areas of the country that are also preparing for the coronavirus,” a spokesperson said. But that statement calls on the listener to trust that the Trump administration is a fair broker, sending supplies to where they are most needed rather than to the states that Donald Trump personally favors. We cannot trust that. We’ve watched as Trump has demanded that governors suck up to him and punished states if their governors didn’t do so, as states like Florida and Oklahoma have gotten as much or more equipment as they asked for while states like Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maine have gotten only a fraction of what they needed. So, no. Hearing that the reason Colorado didn’t get 500 ventilators it was trying to buy is that FEMA got it instead does not instill confidence that those ventilators are going where they are most needed. We especially cannot trust it when The New York Times reports things like this: “Advisers to Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, have surprised FEMA officials in recent weeks to deploy supplies to communities after the area’s representatives got through to Mr. Trump, even if the state had not yet gone through the formal process to secure supplies.” The Trump administration continues to run the government according to who sucks up to Donald Trump most effectively and most recently. Right now, it’s doing that through FEMA, to make it look like things are very efficient and regularized. But that doesn’t change the corrupt basic nature of what’s going on.
That really sucks, but give this a try and see how it works. I do wonder if a lawyer would take your case, because you do have doctor's note, and FMLA should not be able to overrule a doctor. Is the company less than 500 employees? If so, I am pretty sure they are mandated to follow the rules based on the new law.
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Way more than 500. There’s that many just In the one building I work in. There’s 14 buildings on the campus. That’s just one location.
I can't believe we haven't seen movement on the national and state level to get mail in voting rolling after yesterday.
Sorry to hear you work with a bunch of “it’s just the flu” crowd. Good on you for being responsible and looking out for not just your wife, but those morons as well.