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Our German/Belgium Shepherd mix was getting trouble with his hip. We finally had to take him to the vet, as we could not afford the treatment that would have made his life enjoyable for a little longer. (Pour dog could not even get to the next tree to urinate without pain.) After seeing (especially) my husband's reaction, the vet told us there was a fund for these cases and we got to enjoy our doggo for two more quite happy years. When we tried to do something in return a few years later, the vet's assistant knew nothing about such a fund. We suspect the vet, who by then had retired, secretly had a very big heart.

When I was a little girl my dog was hit by a car. The vet took her home every night to sleep under his bed until she was well enough to come home

Sadly, along come the money gougers, i.e. corporations and private-equity funds have been rolling up smaller chains and previously independent practices as they see this as another place to hit the average person with high bills. They are also going into animal insurance. Prices have soared as a result, staff are working longer and harder for less. All this so some men can sit on more money, and the government keeps prompting it up, even when it fails. Senator Warren is introducing a bill that will help. Please avoid private equity or corporation-owned veterinaries.

Everything being for profit ruins all healthcare, even for our pets. My vet is family run, and the vet's daughter started a few years ago in one of those corporate places and she was told to push meds and office visit can't be longer than 15 minutes. Now working for her mom and can actually have time to discuss options etc. not just push meds for profit. She's a great vet.

i beleive this

So did I. Worked at a McDonald's franchise, amazing high hygiene standards. Remember that fast food places like Mickey D's are franchise run, so how good they are in this regard depends on the franchise.

The McDonald's here has frozen cokes and blueberry slushies. Good luck getting either between about 2pm to about 3pm, because that's when they clean the machine for evening shift.

Franchises usually have a really strict hygiene rules written in their plans, but it differs a lot how they follow them. Different countries have different inspection standards, forcing their hands a lot. Besides that it depends on a chain, owner, managers and million other things.

Sounds like The Drucken Clam.

my step mum works at a cafe and she went to different location for a while and when she can back it was a mess, I mean like sticky stuff under counters kinda mess.

The sickening thing is that insurance is billed 3 to 10 times the salary of the staff sent to care for those people, on a per-patient basis. They are effectively paying pennies on the hundreds of dollars to their employees in the most egregious cases!

Sad but true and its criminal. Where I worked my hours the majority of the force consisted of trainees and the actual staff there were numb from low wages (R6000 pm), long hours and poor working conditions. It was challenging. There are/were meant to be 2 HCW's per patient, yet I had the floor to myself so it was just me for showers, dressing, bed baths and bathroom breaks, after I helped the elderly to the dining hall and made their beds in the morning. As a slight build person I was terrified-especially in the shower room with the wet floors and frail persons. I can only suggest that people with parents in a frail care home must always ask questions and hammer where possible so as its known that their parents get the best treatment they deserve.

I worked in a nursing home during covid and it was hell. If the hospital i work in now hadn't called me i would have quitted anyway. My heart breaks for all the people who have to live there and don't receive the care they deserve because there is never enough staff and the one that is there is overworked and burnt out.

actually same for hospitals in the u.s....if you love someone who's going to stay in the hospital, make sure someone stays with them...esp. b/w 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

I haven't told my parents, but my plan is that when they become frail, I will move back into my old room to take care of them for as long as I am able. I don't plan on having kids, so I will be in a position where I can take care for them.

Yes we google a lot, but we can corroborate the information we get to make a solution and we have the background knowledge to incorporate the solution into a system.

"I.T., did you try turning it off and on again?"

actually ... I was sent out to look at a serious network issue that irregularly took down a whole site. It wasn't a customer of ours, but their supplier had not been able to solve it after two weeks. After an hour talking to the techs the manager storms in and said 'stop what you are doing' The looked at his team an asked "what has he googled so far?" To that they responded the truth: "Googled? He has not even started his laptop! all we done is analyzing the network design, configs and logs. Found a design flaw and narrowed down the issue to a specific wing of the library building" He looked at me and said "you can stay till you solved it" and left. To my puzzled look the techs told me the five techs before me started googling for solutions to the symptoms less than 10 min. into the job. We can google, we need a network engineer not a search engine guru. After solving it he contracted us even before we invoiced them.

100% accurate statement. i resort to google multiple times a week at work and i used to a lot more before i had as much experience as i do now.

That's how I got my IT degree

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From what I read I always thought Amazon took that medal, but maybe it's a close call.

Yeah, Bezos and Musk think very little of their employees.

I can support this! Two people I personally know hate working there. One moved across the country, the other moved across the world.

Most successful African-American ever!

Not very nice comparing primates to insurance adjusters.

God Bless America. Where if you get sick and aren't loaded with money, you're screwed two ways. Companies raking in cash off people's worst moments in life.

So you'd rather have Corporate Death Panels, instead of Government Death Panels

malfunctioning low-budget AI

"I don't want elected representatives to decide my healthcare, I want unelected corporate overloads who only care about profit deciding that..." Americans everywhere not understanding what they are supporting.

Oh, Bank of America doesn't get off that easy. A bed-ridden customer of mine was dying at home, both he and his wife were retired, and the medical costs were devouring their savings. They fell behind a couple of months on their mortgage that was so close to being paid off and BoA foreclosed. A group of us pooled our money, we offered it to BoA plus additional payments. Nope. It's at times like this I wish I wasn't an atheist because I want BoA to burn in hell.

As soon as Wells Fargo took over my bank, I changed banks. They were horrible

The fact that Wells Fargo was allowed to continue as a company even though they signed up customers for extra fees without their knowledge as instructed from corporate is a black mark on the USA!

I once had a BoA account and was living paycheck to paycheck. Every time I tried to cash my check so I could finally eat, they would insist upon holding my check for 5 days. I hate them so much.

Wells was known for upselling w/o people's knowledge and then putting wrong numbers on the accounts so that when a customer called, no one would call them back. I was in the industry when this went down. BUT at my branch we were crystal clean, however a campus branch was doing a similar job on students who opened accounts and suddenly had lines of credit attached to back accounts or credit cards. She retired, a new bank took over for that location, but I dealt with a lot of the aftermath.