That was beautiful.
I only hope I have the opportunity to steal this line at some point!
No, we… doesn’t!
Little Nemo, I dry my laundry in the sun of your brilliance.
Regards,
Shodan
Well, I love this country. My parents came 7,000 miles for better opportunities here. As a woman, I have more freedom here in upstate NY than I ever would have had in India.
I know we have problems, and they are the same problems everyone has. I would rather work to fix them than whine about them.
Door, ass, OP.
Not very far along in that process, are you?
Well, that about as well as could be expected, didn’t it?
Dude, you OP would have been better served by telling us exactly what your problems are and what the government of the USA has failed to do to solve those problems, that it does for others with similar problems.
As it is you come off, at best, as whiny mcdoucheirson. But I suspect you are intentionally on the bus to banville, enjoy your trip. Suicide by Mod as it were.
I’ve worked several times as a contractor for a large multinational software company headquartered in Redmond Washington. Back in the olden days they did expect lots of overtime, but they always paid you time and a half for overtime. Then came the end of the olden days and they finally realized that for the same price you could pay one contractor to work 60 hours or you could pay two to work 40 hours. I’ve never been on a team that expected unpaid overtime for contractors, and never heard of a team that did. Maybe at other companies it happens all the time, but mandatory unpaid overtime for hourly workers is absolutely not an industry standard.
Of course not. In our industry mandatory overtime is almost never asked for. It’s volunteer. If you don’t volunteer, you will find yourself looking for another job soon enough though.
Even Delaware? How could anyone have anything against cute lil’ Delaware?
Strange that companies are firing programmers when everyone is so desperate to hire them.
Incidentally, if you were making very good money and were able to save, why didn’t you buy yourself health insurance? I get that your benefits were cut at work but what stopped you from buying your own?
I’m usually the last person castigate someone for not having insurance, and I also happen to think that the US health care system is the stupidest sounding idea in the world, but living without insurance is a huge gamble, isn’t it? I have nothing but sympathy for those who can’t afford insurance and those who get screwed by insurance companies, but (according to you) you had lots of money and no insurance at all.
Now I’m not an American, so perhaps there’s an obvious reason why someone would be in this situation, but I’m curious as to why that would be.
Why would you?
What makes them “yours?”
Why not try “without?” The default presumption is that adults can and do take care of themselves and their family. “The government” is not around to be the go-to source of “benefits,” which can only come from taking taxes from those who (unlike you) are employed, productive members of society. Shorter version: have a little pride and act like a man.
What does this have to do with anything?
Our first confirmation that the “unable to work” correlates with some character flaw that’s squarely down to you.
Again, where did you get the rather bizarre idea that they would, should, must?
Too bad, so sad. But the demonstrated fact is that tons of people threaten to leave the U.S. and almost none carry through. Americans are some of the least likely people to emigrate, for reasons ranging from lack of multilingual skills to the fact that for most non-malingering, willing-to-work, grown ups, life can be pretty okay here.
You don’t sound like any kind of prize employee, with the phantom health problems and toxic entitlement mentality.
Yeah, no it’s not. 70% of Americans don’t even have a passport.
It costs a lot of money. I’m a single guy with no significant health problems. I priced my health insurance plan a couple of years ago and it would cost me five hundred dollars a month if I paid it out of pocket. Yes, going without insurance is a gamble but some people decide they to take that chance.
Little Nemo is right that private insurance cover is not dirt cheap (his numbers gibe with what I’m paying for (very good) private health insurance). I can understand that might be tough for people in the lower middle/middle middle class.
But then see above. If the OP’s skills were so “indemand” and he “made very good money,” whose fault is it that he did not, in addition to saving, invest $6k a year to make sure unexpected health problems did not become a catastrophic blow to his finances/life?
Oh, he was kinda dumb about it? Never mind then, carry on.
Thats it, thanks. The OP should give it a read.
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I’m ostensibly a glorified freelancer (have short-term and contract employees only). We pay about 900 per month for the low-end family plan. Does that jibe with other’s experience?
Yeah, I get that insurance is a luxury for many people, but the OP makes it sound like he had lots of disposable income for luxuries.
If someone wants to take a gamble with their health then they should expect the consequences. I’m not saying that the consequences of getting sick in the US are just, but surely the OP should have known what he was risking.
The largest single drain on my savings while I’m unemployed is not my rent, not my car payment, but my COBRA payment. Should I not find a job in the next two or three months, I’ve got to decide whether to keep my apartment and my car, or my health insurance.
We pay about $800/month IIRC, for the employee’s portion of our family health insurance coverage. My husband’s company picks up a portion of it, but I don’t know how much.
Insurance is expensive. It’s one reason why I’m still driving an 8 year old minivan.
You ever been to Wilmington?