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  • AsoFiafia@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzInsulin
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    9 hours ago

    The drug I have to take to live costs anywhere from $4,000-$5,500/month without insurance. This is actually cheaper than what I was on before—a cocktail of 4 drugs, some taken multiple times a day, that was almost $10,000/month. I’m lucky(?) that there are a ton of programs that together cover the cost for me. Unfortunately there are hoops I have to jump through every month to continue qualifying for the assistance and have to regularly take time off from work to make the appointments. I’ve lost jobs due to this, but am currently working a position where my manager is happy enough with my work to fudge time cards to help me out.

    I hate this country.





  • I did this and it worked wonderfully. I was the only employee trained in performing the job I did and the only person with access to the system within which I worked. This is after 6+ months of begging someone else to be trained on these systems.

    Plot twist: I actually had an interview to go to and received a call offering the position to me while my boss was talking with me about what was going on. I politely ended that conversation and put in my two weeks notice. They practically begged me to stay on for one month and train another employee in the data system I managed. I refused. 😊

    No one clapped, though. They were actually really upset.














  • This is my take. I still see older large trucks whose standard lamps are aimed down and while they can still be a bit much when I’m driving a lower car, it’s bearable. In the newer trucks they seemed to be aimed straight out, like brights are, and are brighter than ever. And when I flash them to let them know their brights are on I get full rays of sun as an indication their brights are not on. It’s horrible.



  • Same. The majority of people I know cook at home, don’t even have a credit card let alone use one, have pretty old cars, homes and rentals that should be inexpensive, keep their same phone until it’s unusable. Pretty much every splurge they have is thanks to some amazing deal or find. And each year it gets harder and harder to save anything.

    I also know a few people who regularly use food delivery services, live on pop and snack foods, refuse to learn to drive and get a cheap car making them reliant on either me(this is going to stop; I be damned tired) or Uber/Lyft(and they go to and leave from work at a very high traffic time making their rides more expensive), and they can’t seem to figure out why they don’t have any money.

    I can see both sides of this coin, but if it is a two-sided coin, the first side I described is much bigger than the second.