OT 21: DFD Giveth and DFD Taketh Away

[max225]

Jesus your tire got BBC’d?

[Desertbreh]

Jesus your tire got BBC’d?

[MexicanYarisTK]

Jesus your tire got BBC’d?

Why yes it did, i ran it over on the road and I heard a noise and now it jolted the car as it goes. Pulled over to see whats I saw what appears to look like a big ole nail. After pulling the "head" of or what i thought it was, I discovered it was a screwdriver. I was that I was still able to drive 10 more miles. I bought a tire plug kit and managed to fix the damage.

[dubshow]

Competence is an increasingly rare thing these days.

Sadly so. And even more prevalent in my .gov field of employment. It does seem that things are shifting and under-performers are finally getting penalized instead of being regarded as the norm over here though.

x10. My cuz left the mortgage industry because it was dead. Took a role in the .gov contracting side of disaster management. Similar tour and the same FUCKING program I worked for about 6 months in 2017-18.... Endless open spending. Useless inefficient or downright incompetent people galore. Piles of middle management. I couldn't stomach the misuse of tax money and had to leave. We will see how long he can hang.

Disaster management is a fucking disaster.

[dubshow]

Accidentally made a coworker look absolutely stupid. Whoops.

Got an email from boss with a few people on copy: “Hey Brandon, OWP team is swamped, can you help out and work these two actions for them?”

Looked at the actions, super simple, adding funding to existing lines of an incrementally funded contract. No problem. Knock out both actions in under an hour each. Send them back to everybody for review before the contract modification is finalized and sent to the contractor to let them know we’re approving them to spend more money.

Apparently one of the women on the OWP team, on copy with the emails, has had a few of those actions sitting for weeks and her and our boss had been arguing about how long they should take. Her claiming that two weeks is a reasonable amount of time for this sort of mod, and our boss claiming that each one should be finished within a day and that he was being generous with a full day and that there’s no reason why each one shouldn’t only take a few hours and that two in a day is doable.

Then here I come and knock out two in two hours and unknowingly absolutely throw her under the bus She may not be with our team for very long.

Can you even fire someone from a gov job ? That sort of incompetence is really making me glad I’m paying 1/2 of my pay into taxes

they will just be repurposed elsewhere. Gotta keep it equitable.

[D Griff]

I have to renew my license/get a real ID. Why is the DMV so heinous?

Do you have to prove you’re a citizen through 3 separate documents including several bills and a pass port and they give exactly 0 fucks that you already had a drivers license for 20 years ?

Yes. Sort of. I had to get a Real ID and was instructed to bring every such thing. I show up the first attempt and now they have it where you can a QR code to get in line then sit in your car. I go at like 12:30 and it says 100 minute wait… cool, I sit in my car and work on my laptop…. Until 4:30… never get called in.

I wised up for attempt two and just texted back the number from home another day. Same thing, just perpetual 100 minute wait, 40-90 people in front of you in line, until suddenly ‘you’re now up, proceed inside’ so I hightail it over. I wait in line and then I’m told ‘we will probably close before you’re seen but you can sit over there and wait’.

Miraculously they did see me and the guy just took my passport and was like ‘this is all I need’, all the bills I printed, SS card, not needed.

Gets me all set but then the credit card services go down for the entire place. I walked next door to an and finally was able to get out of there with a paper license. Real one is coming. Hopefully.

[golftdibrad1]

Do you have to prove you’re a citizen through 3 separate documents including several bills and a pass port and they give exactly 0 fucks that you already had a drivers license for 20 years ?

Yes. Sort of. I had to get a Real ID and was instructed to bring every such thing. I show up the first attempt and now they have it where you can a QR code to get in line then sit in your car. I go at like 12:30 and it says 100 minute wait… cool, I sit in my car and work on my laptop…. Until 4:30… never get called in.

I wised up for attempt two and just texted back the number from home another day. Same thing, just perpetual 100 minute wait, 40-90 people in front of you in line, until suddenly ‘you’re now up, proceed inside’ so I hightail it over. I wait in line and then I’m told ‘we will probably close before you’re seen but you can sit over there and wait’.

Miraculously they did see me and the guy just took my passport and was like ‘this is all I need’, all the bills I printed, SS card, not needed.

Gets me all set but then the credit card services go down for the entire place. I walked next door to an and finally was able to get out of there with a paper license. Real one is coming. Hopefully.

and about half the county wants to make healthcare (more) like this. Maybe we dont do that.

[D Griff]

Yes. Sort of. I had to get a Real ID and was instructed to bring every such thing. I show up the first attempt and now they have it where you can a QR code to get in line then sit in your car. I go at like 12:30 and it says 100 minute wait… cool, I sit in my car and work on my laptop…. Until 4:30… never get called in.

I wised up for attempt two and just texted back the number from home another day. Same thing, just perpetual 100 minute wait, 40-90 people in front of you in line, until suddenly ‘you’re now up, proceed inside’ so I hightail it over. I wait in line and then I’m told ‘we will probably close before you’re seen but you can sit over there and wait’.

Miraculously they did see me and the guy just took my passport and was like ‘this is all I need’, all the bills I printed, SS card, not needed.

Gets me all set but then the credit card services go down for the entire place. I walked next door to an and finally was able to get out of there with a paper license. Real one is coming. Hopefully.

and about half the county wants to make healthcare (more) like this. Maybe we dont do that.

It kind of already is like this. US healthcare is figure it all out on your own then pay someone a lot to tell them what you already know, have them confirm, then pay more for the drugs or procedures required.

[golftdibrad1]

and about half the county wants to make healthcare (more) like this. Maybe we dont do that.

It kind of already is like this. US healthcare is figure it all out on your own then pay someone a lot to tell them what you already know, have them confirm, then pay more for the drugs or procedures required.

Yea, hence the quantifier more. But at least there are options, like my dr subscription service. Its real nice, feels like how shit is supposed to work frankly. I need something? send an email. need refils? quick call or email. Hey doc I'd like to do xyz blood levels? done, draws done in office. hey doc can you write me a reference to a specialist for xyz? done.

[max225]

It kind of already is like this. US healthcare is figure it all out on your own then pay someone a lot to tell them what you already know, have them confirm, then pay more for the drugs or procedures required.

Yea, hence the quantifier more. But at least there are options, like my dr subscription service. Its real nice, feels like how shit is supposed to work frankly. I need something? send an email. need refils? quick call or email. Hey doc I'd like to do xyz blood levels? done, draws done in office. hey doc can you write me a reference to a specialist for xyz? done.

That's how it works here with health insurance. Is there something different normally down south ?

I hear people in Nevada and Florida complaining that it takes months to get an appointment etc...

[golftdibrad1]

Yea, hence the quantifier more. But at least there are options, like my dr subscription service. Its real nice, feels like how shit is supposed to work frankly. I need something? send an email. need refils? quick call or email. Hey doc I'd like to do xyz blood levels? done, draws done in office. hey doc can you write me a reference to a specialist for xyz? done.

That's how it works here with health insurance. Is there something different normally down south ?

I hear people in Nevada and Florida complaining that it takes months to get an appointment etc...

yea, big insurance makes everything difficult and the drs want appts to bill the ins. For people on a HDP its legal robbery.

[max225]

If you don't mind me asking what do these insurances/subscriptions run?

[Melon2.0]

Fortunately my employer has a no-cost HDP plan + HSA.
I never reach my deductible, and pay out of pocket for most things (Dental and Vision excluded) but I get a tax-free account, and the plan itself costs me nothing.

I do some medical items online through HIMS, (No, not that, my penis works fine, lol) it's for my anti-depressants.

[golftdibrad1]

If you don't mind me asking what do these insurances/subscriptions run?

Our Dr charges 85 a month. He also gets generic prescriptions at stupid low cast and passed savings to his members, so 90 day supply of my 2 pills is something silly cheap like 6 bucks. Same thing for bloodwork, his cash price is about 1/3 of what I'd pay with insurance.

[max225]

If you don't mind me asking what do these insurances/subscriptions run?

Our Dr charges 85 a month. He also gets generic prescriptions at stupid low cast and passed savings to his members, so 90 day supply of my 2 pills is something silly cheap like 6 bucks. Same thing for bloodwork, his cash price is about 1/3 of what I'd pay with insurance.

Interesting! Ty for sharing. I am looking around the ups and downs of other states and health insurance/coverage/doc availability came up. So I'm looking for all the info I can find.

[golftdibrad1]

Our Dr charges 85 a month. He also gets generic prescriptions at stupid low cast and passed savings to his members, so 90 day supply of my 2 pills is something silly cheap like 6 bucks. Same thing for bloodwork, his cash price is about 1/3 of what I'd pay with insurance.

Interesting! Ty for sharing. I am looking around the ups and downs of other states and health insurance/coverage/doc availability came up. So I'm looking for all the info I can find.

No problem. That plus HDP for major medical keeps costs low and service high so i'm pretty happy with the outlay.

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

I’ll leave this here….

[max225]

I’ll leave this here….

So there is a way to get a charger down to civic weight

[MexicanYarisTK]

I’ll leave this here….

Dodge charger superleggera

[Desertbreh]

I’ll leave this here….

Dodge charger superleggera

Stage 3 Lightness Added

[MexicanYarisTK]

Dodge charger superleggera

Stage 3 Lightness Added

Just needs a strokeable dash to beat a fighter jet.

[MexicanYarisTK]

testing, post count incoming, five figures

[MexicanYarisTK]

only 8 left, now 7

[MexicanYarisTK]

roses are red

[MexicanYarisTK]

violets are blue