Exactly.
“I’m ready to start Monday. Just need to restart my health insurance with–”
“Oh, we already chose that for you.”
“Um…okay…well, at least I can go back to my gym on Tues–”
“No worries, through our wellness plan we’ve already selected a gym for you. We even pre-signed you up to a spin class.”
“I’m more of a bench-press person any–”
“We’ve started your retirement account, too.”
“Um…thanks?”
I had a hero of a physics professor who figured out that new editions of textbooks just mixed up the number of the exercises, so he advised students that they could just order previous versions of the textbooks and he’d provide the “key” for how the questions were shuffled.
Toilets.
I just use your neighbor’s garden and blame it on my cat.
Probably gonna anger both sides here, but I see both private insurance and single-payer healthcare as equally-evil scams. Why not focus on driving down costs of healthcare (i.e. EVERYTHING) so that you throw a couple bucks at the receptionist to cover your surgery then check to see if you have enough for a post-surgery soda?
Yup, BandCamp all the way. Once you buy a song you own it, you can play it anywhere you darn well please. Even if BandCamp goes under, no worries, still got my music.
Same with DVDs. Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten movies I regret purchasing, but I think long-term it’s more economical.
Workplace benefits.
Really? What’s the benefit? You’re taking money out of my paycheck to restrict my choices?
And aren’t you a business anyway–you know, an organization whose purpose is to MAKE MONEY, not coddle people.
Was it ever for jobs?
Been an active user for well over 5 years and not one interaction has resulted in a job.
A bunch of people acting like they were hiring, sure.