Sinfest

[Martian Kyo]

That sucks! Any idea of what to do next?
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Tsosm! Dog and travel. Technology and fashion.

[Dogen]

Damn, Gary, what happened?
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"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

[DeD CHiKn]

[CTrees]

My employer lost the recompete on the contract I (and a few hundred other people down here) work on. Got some time before things truly end, but it's time to go job hunting.

The contract extension would have come with a large, automatic raise for my entire team (by changing our labor categories). The plan my wife and I had was that if the recompete went through properly, we'd then start trying to have a kid. Now I need to get back to a stable position again before we get to start working on that.

My job performance made absolutely no difference in all of this. No one's really did-our performance is rated extremely high by the government across every category. It was our proposal team's failure, but everyone is hosed because of it.
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[mouse]

geez, ded - sounds like you need to go bank-hunting as well. do they not get that it is to their advantage to get you into a mortgage? nickel-and-diming you to death on trivia that might bitch the sale just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

and my sympathies to you, too, ctrees - not fun at all to have your job disappear because of someone else.
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[Mr Gary]

Hey ct, we're like job brothers. Jo-bros!!
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[Michael]

Sorry to hear about your loss Martian!

And get a job you hippies!

[Dogen]

My hospital is in trouble with the federal government. For what? Giving free medication to homeless people. See, as a Medicare-funded facility we receive preferred pricing on medications, but we're legally barred from giving meds to patients; we have to sell them at a government-specified price so as not to compete with retail pharmacies. Apparently, even though homeless people will never buy drugs at a pharmacy, and many of them get admitted every three to six weeks because they can't afford and therefore don't take their meds, giving them a 10 day supply is illegal.

Because maybe someday they'll go get a prescription filled at Walgreens, or just die, or something. Gotta look out for the corporations.
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"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

[Bart]

Let me get that straight, you should bill them, even though that incurs administrative costs. Then, when the bill naturally doesn't get paid, you'll probably be forced sue them for the amount owned, incurring lawyers costs, which will still end with them not paying because they have no money.

Sounds like a good plan.

[Darqcyde]

[Dogen]

[Usagi Miyamoto]

[Dogen]

I don't know. We have a foundation, and we provide charitable care (that is, for free to people who qualify), but the problem seems to be specifically with giving people medication when they leave (are no longer patients). I'm sure there are ways around it, but we used to give medication to low income people but got in trouble for that and stopped. So I can only assume there's some impediment to doing it (which could be anything, including it just being inconvenient), and we'll probably just stop helping homeless people, too.
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"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

[DeD CHiKn]

[mouse]

good for you!


....but that still sounds like a reason to take your account elsewhere. still, i hope you can get the house first.
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