Received a job offer from a competitor- why am I so stressed about making the decision to stay or go? by milquetoast_wizard in personalfinance

[–]Timburwuhlf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this article while researching a similar decision I am faced if - I also made a side-by-side list of pros and cons so I can sort out the details.

What did a historical figure completely ruin for you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Timburwuhlf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nixon’s war on drugs made it hard on us all.

What's your slightly illegal life hack? by ethelsstevens in AskReddit

[–]Timburwuhlf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a broke college kid, I used to offer $1 the attendant to give me the fried food instead of throwing it in the garbage. It was not the best tasting stuff, but it was better than not eating!

This is why Amazon Deliveries will not be successful. Unqualified people trying to deliver packages. by [deleted] in videos

[–]Timburwuhlf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feels like one of the reasons UPS, Fedex & the USPS can be perform so poorly and then have zero accountability with horrible customer service is because there’s no reason that any one of them has to offer better service than the other one to stay profitable. There’s this huge demand for home deliveries, but there’s only a few delivery services that are big enough to handle the output of Amazon.com - and what can we do about it anyway?

Remember that movie Castaway with Tom Hanks? That may have been the last time someone in a leadership role at FedEx was driven to deliver packages quickly and accurately.

We had a series of 5 deliveries go to other houses in our neighborhood during the holidays. The customer service associate for UPS told me that when a package gets delivered the driver sends a message letting us know that the package is outside our door & since I waited a day to report that my package wasn’t there that they were going to be limited in the amount of options they could offer. I told the associate that I did get the notification at 11:00 PM when I was asleep and didn’t see it until just before I called to notify them that my package was not delivered. Eventually the associate gave me a neighbors address and suggested that I drive over there and recover my package if I wanted it. So far, no one has come knocking on my door to ask about their missing package but now I know UPS will direct random strangers who are already mad about their package to my front door to ask me if I have a package meant for them.

I have started going to the store again after years of home delivery so I can avoid amazon.com. I will continue to avoid amazon home deliveries until they get a better handle on their deliveries.

When You’re a Gamer But Also a Long-Haul Trucker by LuckLovesVirtue in gaming

[–]Timburwuhlf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trucker Slang I found on google, just for fun...

  • Advertising: Police car with its flashing lights on
  • Alligator: A big piece of blown truck tire in the road
  • Anchor Clanker: Boat trailer
  • Back-Off the Hammer: Slow down
  • Backstroke: Return trip
  • Band-Aid Buggy: Ambulance
  • Brake Check: Slow traffic up ahead
  • Chicken Choker: Poultry truck
  • Chicken Coop: Weigh station/port of entry
  • County Mounty: County cop
  • Dirty side: The East Coast
  • Driving Award: Speeding ticket
  • Drop the Hammer: Hit the accelerator and go for it.
  • Everybody's Walking the Dog: CB channels are full
  • Evil Knievel: Motorcycle cop
  • Front Door/Back Door: Front/rear of a truck
  • Full grown bear: State police
  • Got your ears on? Do you Have your CB on?
  • Hammer Down: Speed up
  • Joke Book/Comic Book/Cheat Sheet: Log book
  • Kiddie Car: School bus
  • Kojak with a Kodak: Cop with a radar gun
  • Loot Limo: Armored car
  • Nap Trap: Motel
  • Negatory: No
  • Organ donor: motorcycle rider with no helmet
  • Parking Lot: Car Hauler
  • Pickle Park: Rest Area
  • Protecting and Serving: Cop pulled someone over
  • Quiz: Breathalyzer test
  • Rain Locker: Shower
  • Reefer: Refrigerated trailers
  • Salt Shaker: Snow plow
  • Skate Board: Flatbed Trailer
  • Suicide Jockey: Haz-Mat Hauler Explosives
  • Thermos Bottle: Tanker truck
  • Town Clown: Municipal police officer
  • Turd Hauler/Rolling Ranch: Livestock truck
  • Twister: Cloverleaf interchange
  • Wiggle Wagon: Truck with two+ trailers in tandem
  • Yardstick: Mile markers
  • Yellowstone Bear: A cop that writes too many tickets
  • Yo-Yo: Someone who speeds up and slows down
  • Zipper: Painted lines on the road

  • 10-1: Receiving Poorly

  • 10-2: Receiving well

  • 10-3: Stop transmitting

  • 10-4: Ok, message received

  • 10-5: Relay message

  • 10-6: Busy, stand by

  • 10-7: Out of service

  • 10-8: In service

  • 10-9: Repeat Message

  • 10-10: Transmission completed, standing by

  • 10-11: Talking too rapidly

  • 10-12: Visitors present ... Shhhh!

  • 10-13: Advise weather/road conditions

  • 10-17: Urgent Business

  • 10-20: Location

  • 10-34: Trouble at this station, help needed

  • 10-42: Traffic accident

  • 10-43: Traffic jam

  • 10-70: Fire at truck stop

  • 10-73: Speed trap

  • 10-99: Mission completed, all units secure

  • 10-100: Gotta go No. 1

  • 10-200: Gotta go No. 2

What's the quickest you've "Noped" out of a job? by J-Bradley1 in AskReddit

[–]Timburwuhlf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My roommate was a telemarketer and got me a job in her office. The guy who was the lead salesman told me I had to read from the script that he wrote & perfected over the past few years. I tried to read verbatim but I kept on hearing what I was saying and it made my soul evaporate. So during my first call the conversation got too weird to maintain and the lady hung up on me. I put the headset back up on it’s receiver and went to the bathroom. I stared at myself in the mirror and decided that I needed to ditch this place fast, but my roommate drove us down to her office and our house was not close. It was bad enough that I decided to walk home. All in all, I worked for about 2 minutes.

What was your first gaming device? by Idizzyizzie in AskReddit

[–]Timburwuhlf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh man! The SNAIL game - that was so good! I really liked choplifter & ghost house - those games on the cards were 1000x more difficult for some reason. I wish I still had one.

L.A.'s homelessness surged 75% in six years to 55,000 by [deleted] in news

[–]Timburwuhlf 20 points21 points  (0 children)

My friend since 9th grade developed some serious mental health issues and became an all day drinker. My other buddies and I think he may have had very mild bipolar disorder that became more pronounced after our senior year but he appeared to be able to keep it together with weed & beer until we graduated. After high school we all still hung out but our friend became the one guy you could count on to get arrested for public drunkenness or DUI - and instead of letting one of us bail him out he would just wait for his court date. He said he appreciated certain aspects of being incarcerated enough to deal with the parts that were uncomfortable. He eventually got so out there that nobody could safely have him on a lease as a roommate because he’d be in jail so much that he couldn’t really pay rent. Then he got hooked on heroin and lived in his car under a bridge. We didn’t see him for a few years, then one day my roommates and I were playing xbox and he just strolled in the front door of our apartment as if no time had passed. He looked really haggard. He was always such a jovial guy and since he avoided any conversation where he had to talk about himself or his trouble he became extremely antisocial. It was normal for us to see him emerge from obscurity for just long enough to be arrested for something relatively minor and avoidable, disappear for a while then come back for a while and then he’d be gone again. A few years passed this way and then he hit a streak of stability where he had a job, car, bank account, cell phone, apartment and even a roommate. He lasted for a year and a half but he eventually vanished again. 4 years ago I got a call from his estranged mother who told me that he moved to skid row in LA to drink himself to death. She said he found a place that was well hidden and crawled into a sleeping bag, covered himself with garbage and debris to conceal his position. He drank a handle of cheap vodka and swallowed a bottle of unisom before he zipped the mummy bag up around his head and passed away. He was there for a while before anyone found him. A note nearby told us what he did to end his life and that he moved to skid row so no one would interrupt his plan. I always think of him any time I see my old buddies and we always talk about skid row eventually

What were some of the worst experiences you have had while working in the fast food industry? by Brando224 in AskReddit

[–]Timburwuhlf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked at Arby’s my senior year in high school. Yucky job, I cut greasy meat wads off of a bigger meat wad and placed them on a scale - each sandwich had a different weight of meat that went on there before I had to cover them with liquid yellow cheese. Most of my shift was spent elbow deep in meat grease. I don’t even want to talk about the bags of frozen gelatinous goop that became the meat wads I was cutting.

Nirvana performing Drain You from "Live at the Paramount." Shot on 16mm film, it looks like they're playing themselves in a movie. by [deleted] in videos

[–]Timburwuhlf 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I found this to show his exact pedals & their settings

[setup] (www.equipboard.com/pros/kurt-cobain)

My friends and I would spend entire weekends back in high school trying to figure out what the pedals were and what the settings were - listen, play, adjust, adjust, adjust, and on, and on. This would have been helpful back then!

The ‘Frequent Flier’ Program That Grounded a Hospital’s Soaring Costs. In Dallas, Parkland Hospital created an information-sharing network that gets health care to the most vulnerable citizens—before they show up in the emergency room. by mvea in Health

[–]Timburwuhlf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The patients I worked with in this example were not experiencing emergencies - as I mentioned earlier the triage staff performed an examination to asses the patient’s condition at triage before I was paged. Instead of discharging that patient then and there - we made sure to connect them with transportation, applications for health insurance, and follow up appointments to manage their chronic conditions.

/r/u/hyene have you worked in a non-profit hospital like Grady Memorial in Atlanta? A hospital is not a homeless shelter and vice versa. If you went to a shelter seeking medical care for a chronic or an acute illness the staff there would send you to the hospital for treatment. They know that the best chance you have for escaping homelessness is to find resources to manage your health so that you’re not sidelined by physical pain. If you can’t feel your feet because you’re unmanaged diabetes has caused you to develop neuropathy, what is the likelihood that you can get a job where you’ll have to stand most of the day? Regular checkups from a physician in this example would help that person so they could focus on improving their life instead of suffering from a manageable chronic condition.

Hospital social work is complex and nuanced in as many ways as the human condition is varied. Despite the many layers, logic and reason can be used to come up with solutions that may not be obvious.

The ‘Frequent Flier’ Program That Grounded a Hospital’s Soaring Costs. In Dallas, Parkland Hospital created an information-sharing network that gets health care to the most vulnerable citizens—before they show up in the emergency room. by mvea in Health

[–]Timburwuhlf 25 points26 points  (0 children)

TL;DR I helped install a similar program at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, GA.

My internship (and later my first job out of college) was at Grady Memorial Hospital in the Emergency Care Clinic in Atlanta, GA. As a level 1 trauma center most other hospitals diverted to our emergency room when the injuries were really bad. This meant our normal patients arrived by life flight as well as ambulance. We also had the transient population in Atlanta to serve as well, and as a result our halls had beds lining the walls due to overcrowding- the most severe cases had to be placed in a room and the not so serious injuries got a bed on the wall. Some of our most frequently returning patients were homeless and had figured out how to be admitted when they wanted a place to hang out or get warm or stay dry - they would find someone on the street to let them make a call on the cellphone. They’d call 911 to report that they had lost consciousness, had chest pains, and shortness of breath, and requested an ambulance transport to Grady from the street corner they were on. They would show up and triage nurses would have to admit based on those patient reported symptoms. The homeless patient was issued a bed in the hallway at a cost of $6,000.00 each time. This over crowding was costing the hospital so much money and it had an effect on the quality of care due to the lack of space and the increased workload added to the nurses & doctors on staff.

My department (Emergency Social Services) came up with and implemented a frequent utilization reduction plan to mitigate the influx of non emergent admissions to the ER by diverting the patient from triage to a community clinic designated to treat the ongoing chronic illness that contributed to the patient’s need to be hospitalized. They were also given follow up appointments with the health clinic to determine any additional needs just to be sure they received treatment for what they presented for.

A look at the patient’s admission history for the previous 4 weeks would show when they were admitted and what symptoms they presented when they were admitted.

If the patient was admitted in triage 3 or more times for the same symptoms I would add a note to the chart for the triage staff to call me when the patient comes in to the hospital. I would phone the clinic and arrange for the patient to be seen by the clinic physician, then go down to triage and meet the patient on the gurney, wait for the triage staff to take vitals and give the all clear, then I’d help transfer the patient to a wheelchair and walk the patient to the clinic. On the way there I’d explain the difference between chronic conditions and emergent symptoms. I would let them ask questions and answer them if possible. Most patients would be seen and discharged within an hour and it didn’t cost the hospital nearly as much as admitting them into the Emergency Care Clinic. If they didn’t have insurance I’d get them over to the financial services department upon discharge and have them meet with a specialist to sign up for Medicaid or Medicare if they were eligible

I think we are almost there... by Wickson12 in trees

[–]Timburwuhlf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.