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OccultHawk · 11-21-2018, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Pay as in money?

Yes you fat ****

What the **** are you on about?

**Frownland** · 11-21-2018, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Yes you fat ****

What the **** are you on about?

*phat

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Getting free **** is way betterr

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There's a sucker born every minute.

FETCHER. · 11-21-2018, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

And speaking of people who need a little sympathy but get none there's a woman pushing forty who works at my job and just had a C-section. She worked through her pregnancy up till the last day and came back after like a week and was clearly not feeling too hot today. She was trying to play it off like she was fine even though she admitted she was hurting a bit but why the **** isn't there paid maternity leave in America? She's got stitches for ****'s sake.

Is that common in America? If so, that is horrific. My sister wasn’t even allowed to drive for around a month after a c section. Surely a section would fall under being off work sick because she had to get surgery?? :|

The Batlord · 11-21-2018, 05:03 PM

I mean I don't know at what economic level paid maternity leave becomes common but there aren't laws guaranteeing it so lower income jobs don't give it as a very hard rule. They'll give you very very limited time off for it but it won't be paid. I'm sure my co-worker could have taken off longer but she makes not very much over minimum wage so every day she takes off is highly meaningful. She put up a brave front all throughout her pregnancy like she just doesn't like not working but I highly doubt she wasn't just covering for it being necessary to work every day possible.

ribbons · 11-21-2018, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by FETCHER.

Is that common in America? If so, that is horrific. My sister wasn’t even allowed to drive for around a month after a c section. Surely a section would fall under being off work sick because she had to get surgery?? :|

Hi, Fetch - welcome back! The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate companies to provide paid parental leave -- only New York, New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, Washington and the District of Columbia have passed paid family leave laws -- otherwise, it's up to individual companies to voluntarily set their own paid parental leave policy.

It's awful this woman had to return to work so soon after a C-section, which is major surgery. Especially if she is lifting anything on the job (absolutely no lifting should be done from 4-6 weeks after a C-section).

~~[MERIT]~~ · 11-21-2018, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Well they sent me a letter saying they sent it to collections

OccultHawk · 11-21-2018, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by FETCHER.

Is that common in America? If so, that is horrific. My sister wasn’t even allowed to drive for around a month after a c section. Surely a section would fall under being off work sick because she had to get surgery?? :|

Dude - service industry jobs, which make up most of our work force, generally have no paid time of for anything. Not for childbirth. Not for the death of your child. Not if you’re diagnosed with cancer. Not if you’re dying from a disease. There’s ****ing nothing. And employers shamelessly work people literally to death. I work with a guy who has blood leaking into the joints of his hips. He’s in agony. He can’t afford surgery and wobbles around work everyday carrying big bags of flour and breading around. He’s been there for years so he asked if he could do less physical stuff like inventory. Nope. Carry these 50 lbs bags around all day or lose your job. It’s like that all over. I mean, he’s exhausted, can’t sleep from the pain, trying to remain in recovery from opioid addiction, has been loyal to the company for years and they show more kindness to the machinery. I am NOT being hyperbolic. It is like that.

OccultHawk · 11-21-2018, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Well they sent me a letter saying they sent it to collections

Congratulations! You just got 1K medical for free. Trust me on this: once it’s in collections you NEVER pay. You never even acknowledge that the debt ever existed. You can NOT make good with collection agencies. Even if you did pay they’ll keep sending you **** and calling. Man, don’t trust anyone else. Since it’s in collections it already did whatever it’s gonna do to your credit and there’s absolutely no reason to pay it. The hospital sold your debt to a collection agency. That means you no longer owe the hospital. The collection agency bought your debt for a fraction of what you owe. Once you don’t pay them they’ll sell it again and again until it’s just fairy dust. Collection agencies cannot do ****.

If someone calls and you answer before you say yeah this is elph say who are you. They’ll act like they don’t have to say and blah blah and act like they got you. Bitch they ain’t got ****. **** those toothless bitches.

OccultHawk · 11-21-2018, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

well it's not like I was going to make an effort to pay it either way

I’m proud of you, son.

windsock · 11-22-2018, 01:46 AM

Home for Thanksgiving. Went to see a couple of friends but was too down to drink so I left them to it. Drove home listening to Arcade Fire cause The Flaming Lips were too peppy for my mood. It's cold as **** outside and I'm glad to be back in the warmth of my house, and at the prospect of sleeping in my own bed.