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Welp, just sent my official letter of resignation. As of July 10th, I will no longer be working in healthcare.
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^ This reminds me- I forgot to formally resign.
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 1422966)
Welp, just sent my official letter of resignation. As of July 10th, I will no longer be working in healthcare.
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Originally Posted by EO2K
(Post 1422989)
I assume this is a good thing? If I may, why resign and were to next?
I interviewed with Bomgar last year, and was going to receive an offer when they had an ownership change that resulted in a hiring freeze. They contacted me again last week, brought me in for a quick interview Friday, and then made me an offer on Monday morning. I'll still be working in support, but it will be in a tech company rather than healthcare, and I'll be one jump away from moving into product support/development, quality assurance, or other more interesting internal departments. |
Bomgar is an atrocity, and it must be destroyed.
(We were forced to use it back at Harris. 70% of the functionality of Join.me, with none of the convenience.) |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1422992)
Bomgar is an atrocity, and it must be destroyed.
(We were forced to use it back at Harris. 70% of the functionality of Join.me, with none of the convenience.) |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 1422990)
Been working in a small IT department <...> It's fine, but there's no room to grow
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 1422995)
Those are two completely different products. Why was someone making you use Bomgar as a collaboration tool?
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Originally Posted by EO2K
(Post 1422998)
Ouch, right in the feels. I've been going through something similar for the last couple years and I've started looking around as well. Good luck with the new employer!
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1422999)
Corporate IS standardized on it for the service departments to use for remote customer support.
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 1423002)
How long ago was that? It's been around a long time and has definitely been polished up over the last few years. We've been using it here for 4+ years and it has worked great for us.
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An article from a source which, according to CNN Money, "offers a deeply conspiratorial, anti-establishment and pessimistic view of the world." (source):
Startling Look At How Much Money Food Stamp Recipients Spend On Junk Food A new study just released by the USDA, offers a very detailed look at exactly how participants in the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" (SNAP, aka Food Stamps) spend their taxpayer-funded subsidies. Unfortunately for taxpayers, the amount of money spent on soft drinks and other unnecessary junk foods/drinks is fairly staggering. But, we suppose it's a nice taxpayer funded subsidy for the soda industry...so score one for Warren Buffett and the Coca Cola lobbyists. Per the study, nearly $360mm, or 5.4% of the $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on soft drinks alone. In fact, soft drinks represent the single largest "commodity" purchased by SNAP participants with $100mm more spent on sodas than milk and $150mm more than beef. Soft drinks were the top commodity bought by food stamp recipients shopping at outlets run by a single U.S. grocery retailer. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...e076919d4a.pngThat is according to a new study released by the Food and Nutrition Service, the federal agency responsible for running the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as the food stamp program. By contrast, milk was the top commodity bought from the same retailer by customers not on food stamps. In calendar year 2011, according to the study, food stamp recipients spent approximately $357,700,000 buying soft drinks from an enterprise the study reveals only as “a leading U.S. grocery retailer.” That was more than they spent on any other “food” commodity—including milk ($253,700,000), ground beef ($201,000,000), “bag snacks” ($199,300,000) or “candy-packaged” ($96,200,000), which also ranked among the top purchases. Even worse, when we added up all of the commodities that would typically be considered "junk food" (i.e. soft drinks, candy, cakes, energy drinks, etc.), we found that roughly $950mm, or just over 14% of the aggregate $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on unnecessary, unhealthy products. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7be9087c2b.png As CNS News points out, the study was conducted by IMPAQ international and analyzed the sales of a single national retail chain back in 2011. The dollar amount that food stamp recipients spent on soft drinks and other commodities comes from data a retailer provided to a data analysis company the federal government hired to find out what kind of foods people on foods stamps—and Americans not on foods stamps—were buying. It's a good thing democrats re-branded Food Stamps as the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program"....otherwise we would have confused it for a blatant waste of taxpayer money on sodas and energy drinks.“The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) awarded a contract to IMPAQ International, LLC, to determine what foods are typically purchased by households receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) benefits,” the study explained. “This study examined point-of-sale (POS) food purchase data to determine for what foods SNAP households have the largest expenditures, including both SNAP benefits and other resources, and how their expenditures compare to those made by non-SNAP households.” “POS transaction data from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 from a leading grocery retailer were examined for this study,” the report said. The full report from the USDA: https://www.scribd.com/document/3320...016-11-23-SNAP Startling Look At How Much Money Food Stamp Recipients Spend On Junk Food | Zero Hedge |
I know I posted about it recently, but saw a couple guys try to buy a salad at a Circle K with their EBT card, and it was rejected. No problem with hot dogs, chips or nachos( the idea of Circle K nachos makes me shiver).
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Originally Posted by xturner
(Post 1423133)
I know I posted about it recently, but saw a couple guys try to buy a salad at a Circle K with their EBT card, and it was rejected. No problem with hot dogs, chips or nachos( the idea of Circle K nachos makes me shiver). From just a few weeks ago near here*: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/health...ese/index.html I mean, who would buy nachos at a place like this? : https://tribktla.files.wordpress.com...=all&strip=all Ironically, this guy's wife and kids could now end up on food stamps, if it weren't for the inevitable lawsuit money they'll undoubtedly receive. http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/...che=6hdrduup0s *actually, it's closer to Vlad. |
Originally Posted by xturner
(Post 1423133)
I know I posted about it recently, but saw a couple guys try to buy a salad at a Circle K with their EBT card, and it was rejected. No problem with hot dogs, chips or nachos( the idea of Circle K nachos makes me shiver).
I'm not asking sarcastically. I honestly don't understand how these places stay in business. And yes, I used to do a significant amount of my grocery-shopping in Brooklyn and east Harlem, so I am familiar with the options available to those who live in the most squalid of urban slums. |
I had a nutrition discussion with a friend who is a pediatric cardiologist. It doesn't seem possible to me that people could be so ignorant about which foods are good and which are bad. But this doc said she spends a tremendous amount of time explaining to parents of diet impaired kid's that their issues are partially diet related. Activity the other factor. Unfortunately the usual response is denial - and this is in the face of the parents having similar issues from the same diet.
When I was a kid in school we had regular field trips to the "food pyramid" - it may have not been a perfect pyramid but it was better than one at the circle K. And at home we ate our vegetables whether we liked them or not. Could education play such an important role in diet? https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...00c82eec9a.jpg |
The fact that "pediatric cardiologist" is a thing is troubling.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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The fact that "pediatric cardiologist" is a thing is troubling.
Sure it's troubling that that's what they are dealing with. But it's not a thing because of it. |
I'd like to see a comparison of what people who aren't on SNAP are buying to those on SNAP. If it's the same, you can't blame the program. There's a reason this country is fat and unhealthy.
Also we're already subsidizing HFCS via corn subsidies. Also I like farmers markets that honor SNAP and also discount for SNAP. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1423151)
Serious question: do responsible adults do their regular grocery shopping at Circle-K?
I'm not asking sarcastically. I honestly don't understand how these places stay in business. And yes, I used to do a significant amount of my grocery-shopping in Brooklyn and east Harlem, so I am familiar with the options available to those who live in the most squalid of urban slums. |
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