u/CaregiverHairy4008

I'm American, so people who have to deal with the US way of healthcare and have experience in its little sham for this question.

So, I didn't see the letter that my state (Illinois) Medicare benefits would stop at the end of May. Didn't renew. got it, just didn't see it. I called today, but by the time I talked to them, it was 4:50..guy says they are closing in ten minutes, so I'll have to call back tomorrow. I think the way it works is if you call and they answer at 4:50 after 45 minutes on hold, they do the process. I mean, if I call Capital One to talk about an issue, we talk until it gets resolved. Of course, Capital One is great, so I've never had any problems. I did AT&T call center. We had to do the call if it came in right before the shift was up, even if resolving the issue took an hour. I think he was just lazy. I could tell by the way he said it. I'm going to try to talk to them while at work tomorrow, but say I have 2 weeks of two of my med left. Please point me to some options if there are some.

Oh, and if anything state or city specific I'm in Chicago, Illinois

So, it's this upscale retirement community. I saw a bank statement on the trash by chance where the person had 3 million in it. Yeah. Great people in general.

So, the other day, my two coworkers and I got called to remove two chairs from an apartment since the couple had bought new ones.

Here is the shitty part. They had a sign in the break room saying employees could have them for free. They KNEW they had bedbugs most likely. It's why they were getting new chairs. It is POSSIBLE it's a coincidence that they didn't know. It's the knowing and GIVING THEM AWAY that's shitty. One coworker's mom was going to take one, but we saw the bedbug. We carried these things against our clothing to move them! We all said we were going to wash our clothes as soon as we get home.

I'm not a housekeeper thank God...but a couple weeks ago I got called in there to make the bed, because the housekeeper didn't show up and they aren't physically able to do it because of medical reasons.

Our manager, who is boss of us and housekeeping is such a company simp sycophant. Whatever is asked, she says will do. She will volunteer to have us do things there is no need for us to do. I get a manager has to do what they're told. But, when you volunteer us to do things that aren't needed just to look good.

if we or a housekeeper told her, it wouldn't be a "can't help because what am I going to do because the office won't care" I get that. Hands are tied. No. She was talking to her snitch worker one day. I heard them talking about cockroaches and trying to figure out which worker is bringing them in... because it has to be a worker, right, simp, and not one of the precious residents...then I could tell they realized the possible legal issues that could come from that idea. Nope, a worker must be bringing the pests in. It's so clear she's a sycophant. I get when hands are tied, but this lady would not even put in a report about the apartment, if say a housekeeper said she saw it. Not out of fear for retaliation. Get that. No, because a housekeeper must have brought them or some other employee.

I'm hoping this big I saw in my bathroom isn't a bedbug. It kind of looks like one, but not quite? I'm finally getting the cockroaches under control. I'd rather have roaches than bedbugs.

So, trad Catholic looking east. Fatima never sat right with me and I never had any devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. In Catholicism, there is often this "pray for poor sinners". The prayers don't really focus on the sins of the person themselves, but the "world" or others. The Orthodox way is so much more therapeutic, making you realize your vices and correct them. The prayers also make you focus on the sins as a whole, not individual acts, but lust or backbiting or gossip or bitterness. It's very legal in the Western spirituality, and you get hung up on the sins, instead of the root of it. It's the way the prayers are framed in the West. The biggest thing that irks me is the prayers for the sinners of the world, "poor sinners", etc. Sure you look at your own sins, but then it's all about simply going to confession and being absolved like you're being pardoned by a judge. Confession is giving forgiveness, but....

In short, I'm tired of this constant "poor sinners" "the sins of the world". There seems only a superficial view of one's own sinfulness, especially since Fatima, where the world is doomed, unless the Pope does certain things. And why does this third secret need to be kept secret...the obsession over Fatima and consecrating Russia. It's like the Catholic version of the Rapture. Yes, I am aware Catholicism rejects the Rapture as heresy.

When I have looked at my sins in Catholicism, it's always been this judicial, rather than medical view. Even when the Orthodox prayer reminds you of all the horrible sins you have committed, there is a spirit of mercy in there that makes you get up and improve. You don't get that in Western spirituality.