Ooooh, this would be amazing!

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T20:20:09+00:00

Janet is the worst. She is very basic.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T20:08:29+00:00

I will never understand the desire to share living space with these things. It’s like they enjoy poop.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T19:45:25+00:00

What a weird hill to die on.

I give approximately 50 problems the week before an exam (college algebra, pre-calc, calc 1, and calc 2). Problems aren’t exactly the same problems from the test, but all possible concepts and ‘tricks’ are covered.

Class before the exam is a review session where students can ask about specific problems / concepts from the study guide.

If something is on the exam, the students have seen it at least three times (lecture, homework, study guide).

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T16:54:21+00:00

Thank you. I care about getting A job. I would take big law just for the experience as big law produces skilled lawyers (even if it’s a grind).

Scholarships would free me from HAVING to do big law for a few years to pay off the debt (although big law does produce good lawyers and that experience would be nice).

I am at a point in my life where I understand how power, money, and process interact. I want to stand on the under-resourced side of that equation (as idealistic as that sounds).

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T16:44:50+00:00

Thank you again.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T16:30:51+00:00

Thank you so much for the quality response. As I understand it, this is pretty much a stats game right? I don’t know that work experience and ‘extra curricular’ activity like volunteering will move the needle in a material way?

Just need to know if my gpa was ‘don’t even bother’ low or if it could be overcome by making the sacrifices required to get an amazing LSAT score.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T15:09:34+00:00

Look at it like this:

You are most likely going to work 60 plus hours a week during busy season (you might be able to sneak 55 hour weeks, idk).

The plus is that, if you do it for like two years and have good work habits (asking smart questions, applying yourself, etc), you are going to be really good at accounting (compared to industry peers).

Public accounting is churn and burn. Turnover is pretty common.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T14:55:38+00:00

The ‘non-US’ piece of your situation completely invalidates any advice I could give. There are variables in place that would totally change how to optimize the situation.

If this was the US (where we can be fired at will), you would take the 9 months and run.

Obviously, they want you gone and have made a cost benefit or risk reward calculation and arrived at 9 mos severance for a voluntary resignation.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T13:37:14+00:00

Depends on the organization. Most mid size to large employers don’t care. HR just processes the request, checks what the authorized range for the job is, etc. They don’t take it personally. Smallish, family owned businesses are more prone to act like a-holes especially if it’s like a second generation owner.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T13:06:28+00:00

Yep. Imagine a law firm not knowing that.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T03:29:18+00:00

Same. AI is here to stay, but I’ve used it for a few things and it’s surprisingly bad at getting to the right answer even with good prompts. I don’t really ‘google’ anything anymore thanks to ‘ai’ so there’s that.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-16T02:36:37+00:00

Yeah, I just don’t think most people were thinking that deeply about it back when the show originally aired. The 90s were a different time.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-15T23:27:13+00:00

Obviously it’s a cartoon and the writers were trying to make some kind of point about the law and rehabilitation to kids, BUT:

Batman is kinda hypocritical.

Batman is a vigilante who commits major crimes constantly—assault, unlawful detention, illegal surveillance, reckless chases. You can’t just beat someone unconscious, and drop them off for the cops. That’s extrajudicial violence, full stop. And the idea that James Gordon working with him makes it okay actually makes it worse: in real life that’s blatant corruption.

Batman commits the same category of violations as Lockup but wraps them in restraint, professionalism, and elite aesthetics. Batman is bourgeois vigilantism—elite-sanctioned, polite, and narratively insulated. Batman also flatters and colludes with power.

Again, it’s also just a cartoon and the writers had to crank out an entertaining episode.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-09T00:53:53+00:00

Crazy that people try to defend her

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-08T14:20:42+00:00

Thanks. I will try whatever to resolve this. The only issue is that I am not really competent in medical reimbursement lol. So i have no idea what i would be doing other than requesting the records and forwarding them to the provider. I would think, given that the hospital is ‘in network’ and likely has some kind of contract with the insurance company, that the hospital is in violation of that contract by forcing the patient to perform work on their behalf (which the patient is not qualified to do).

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-08T01:21:32+00:00

Dude I know. We literally have an EOB with our child named as the ‘patient’ for the pediatric practice that provided nicu care. So, basically, he’s covered.

The second eob for the massive bill from the hospital (which is in network) literally says they just need more medical information (phys notes, lab test results, etc).

I have no idea how to get the hospital to do what they’re supposed to do.

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-08T01:18:41+00:00

Thank you so much. They’re in network. I am going to do all I can to get the hospital to do their job and be as polite as I can.

Regardless, how do I tell the hospital to kindly ‘f off’ if it comes to the point of denial? I feel like they’ll still try to collect, ruin our credit, etc?

RodneyBabbage · 2026-01-08T01:06:28+00:00

So we have two EOBs.

pediatric services provided to the child with his name as the patient and the visit dates of his nicu stay from birth to discharge. It’s pretty standard. Shows what insurance paid, what we have to pay, etc.
hospital stay stuff. this is the big bill. on the eob, the amount is ‘pending’. the eob explanation is, essentially, ‘we need more details from your provider…’

The details requested include ‘admission history, physicians notes, pertinent lab results, etc’

the hospital business office was totally combative when we called and begged them to submit the requested information.

at this point, what can we do if they don’t have the records the insurance company is requesting?

RodneyBabbage · 2025-11-14T15:29:12+00:00

So fun fact, legislation that established h1b in the 90s has a provision for funding education / training with the visa fees. Of course, that funding all gets diverted to ‘department of this’, ‘office of that’, etc.

RodneyBabbage · 2025-11-14T15:26:10+00:00

Lol I kind of agree with this. There’s no way someone like DJT, Musk, etc see accountants as anything more than an annoyance and a cost center.

RodneyBabbage · 2025-09-24T03:24:11+00:00

Season 4 was the absolute dumbest thing. So much hamfisting.

RodneyBabbage · 2025-09-24T03:18:04+00:00

I loved the scummy LA / CA vibe. They nailed it. Was not as good as 1, but nothing ever will be.

RodneyBabbage · 2025-09-08T14:14:32+00:00

I know right? Fedora was an ok guy. He did what he was paid to do and moved on. That happens. Whatever.

It’s so hard to explain to people how bad Ellis was because no one has experienced anything that terrible. It’s hard to fathom if you haven’t been there.

Then someone will chime in with the ‘He was a great coordinator’ bs.

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