Comments on: Memo to all employees (including specifically you)

By: JDub

JDub — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:35:02 +0000

Some people out there need to learn how to use deodorant. One of my former female colleagues never uses deo, and to spice things up, she never bothered “trimming” her underarm hair. Not saying everybody should shave, but if you’re going to be wearing a tank top all the time and perspire excessively, please consider others?

By: paranoidandroid

paranoidandroid — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:42:45 +0000

the english, aussies and canadians all spell it ‘odour’, its only the americans who find the u superfluous lol. same as with colour and harbour.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:23:41 +0000

*In march tough-looking brutes in matching leather dresses holding several large, fully-vibrating dildoes connected by metal and aimed at your anus*

By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:53:34 +0000

It might be important to note that in many states requiring staff to work during lunch (Taylor said, “When I started this job we were told we could eat in the back office so that if it got too busy we could stop our lunch and help out…”) is against labor laws. My husband’s employer lost this battle and all the salaried employees in all the stores got extra money from them, courtesty of a ruling by the labor board.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:08:37 +0000

WMDKitty, the main thrust of the legislation is Portability…keeping people insured as they move between jobs so that they are not subject to pre-existing condition clauses with their new carrier (thank the Democrats for looking out for you).
While Privacy is included in the Accountability portion (a bone the Clinton Administration tossed to the GOP), it is NOT the MAJOR benefit insureds gain from the Act, as personal health information has always been protected information. Trust me, I’ve been in the health insurance business for over 25 years and I know of what I speak. No one was giving out your personal health information before HIPAA passed. HIPAA just imposes penalties for doing so on the rare occasions that may happen without your specific consent. In that regard, HIPPA is feel-good, bullshit that just creates more paperwork for you to fill out. Another hoop for you to jump through to get your information to those who need it to care for you. Government involvement in your personal life insisted upon by…surprise!!…the REPUBLICAN PARTY, under the guise of giving you “control” of your health care information!!! What are you really going to control? Which doctor are you NOT going to allow to see your complete history? Because, let’s face it, no one was going to tell your employer or nextdoor neighbor anything if they called and asked for it before HIPAA anyway. That’s just not how things worked in insurance companies or providers’ offices. I’m sure there are folks here who work in providers’ offices who will confirm that. Your info has always been confidential, and has never been spread willy-nilly. HIPAA privacy provisions are just a pain in everyone’s ass. But they make some people (read paranoid assholes) feel better.

For the most part, the only new thing HIPAA did for you had to do with Portability.

This is not intended to be a complete explanation, just enough to give a basic understanding…there’s a lot more, but we don’t need that here.

People discussing their own maladies was part of a freaking JOKE, get with the program. I’m pretty sure most people understand implied consent even if they don’t know the term.

♫ Ya gotta know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em…♫

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:45:00 +0000

*scrolls up*

Aaah, I see where I screwed up! I was replying to Callista, but directed it at you!

I’m sorry, CB, that was my mistake.

And no, no crush here, I’m happily taken. Though I do rather like most of your comments.

As for HIPAA, it really is there to protect your information from misuse by others. It does not, however, prevent the patient from discussing their medical information with others. (Because said information does, legally, belong to the patient.)

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:36:31 +0000

I’m always amazed that some people can’t seem to hold a sneeze in…as if it is somehow not satisfying enough unless one spews forth spittle like an erupting germ volcano.

By: ammali

ammali — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:08:35 +0000

Oh, gosh, we have one of those too. She’s really sweet, though, so we try not to worry too much, but she smells exactly like a litter box. SERIOUSLY. When I first started here, I didn’t know about it, and when I walked by her desk I was honestly looking around for a dirty litter box and wondering how someone was allowed to keep a cat in the office. She smells just like it–the litter, the urine and poop smells being covered up by the chemical scents in the litter–everything. She has two kids, but I guess she must have a ton of cats too, because you have to be around a lot of it all the time to carry the smell so perfectly everywhere you go. It’s nasty.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:14:32 +0000

WMDKitty, you did so at 11.7. Didn’t say I bad-mouthed, but dragged me into it nonetheless.

I had no comments on this thread of comments saying any such thing, or even on this page!
Why did you address me specifically? I was uninvolved.
I know you have a crush on me, but please keep a clear head (and call me “CB”. Addressing me as “can this” is kinda silly). You were probably just still pissed about me explaining HIPAA farther up, but just because you are a patient does not make you an expert on what the laws are. Leave that to those of use who do it for a living.

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:25:53 +0000

Where did I say or imply that you did? Or did the English language suddenly invert itself, to where agreement is now disagreement?

I was just saying it’s a bitch of a disorder, and it tends to go along with brain damage and autism-spectrum disorders. I have Cerebral Palsy (which is its own post, thx), and yeah, I have a lot of shit wrong with me. But where the hell do you get off making a crack about my “disorders”?

Seriously, that comment just came across as insulting and condescending.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:23:17 +0000

WMDKitty, sorry, but where did I say anything derogatory about “said disorder”?
Or is this just another of your disorders manifesting itself?

By: kathy

kathy — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:23:02 +0000

Do you mean a tissue?

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:53:45 +0000

Noelegy, I’ve been in health insurance for, well…let’s just say a long time now, and I’ve heard some people think it’s the Health Information Privacy Protection Act.

And don’t try to tell them it’s something different altogether either!

This is what happens when the news media understand Privacy, but not Portability, so they report on the Privacy aspects (which are actually part of the Accountability provisions) not on Portability (the ability of an employee to retain benefits, such as a pension plan or insurance coverage, when switching employers), and the public remains uninformed.

By: modernmoron

modernmoron — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:30:27 +0000

No, thank Noah Webster.