fvck work: i just got fired!!!
rook
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worked at a trucking/freight company for the last 4 years called sourdough express (fuck sourdough). just got aced over some political shit. oh well, i plan on not doing shit for a month and catching up on some rackord listening. anybody else get fired before-and what did they do after?? 
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i love driving rigs, but gottdamn soo much horseshit involved
I'm kinda jealous.
The only thing that sucks when you get fired is the whole health insurance thing (in america anyway)... that is unless you have no money saved up and are livin check to check.
When I got canned 2 jobs ago (the very day I was planning on quitting they beat me to it.) I called up an unemployed friend immediately and we went to Six Flags (it's an amusement park). Then a month later I went to Colorado to go snowboarding. Then, about a month after that I went to Costa Rica for 10 days. Did I mention that I was getting severance checks? Shit was rad! Glad they fired me (well laid me off) before I quit. Work sucks. It's bullshit. Enjoy your time off... or, "transition period."
sup high c,
thx for the rehash 45's a while back, and i need to send you another cd.. but yeah i have some loot to fall back on which is fortunate for me, but now i got no health insurance, first thing i did this morning was call the pharmacy and frontload on all perscriptions.-
Now that you are not a 9-5er, it's always a good time to make real world moves and hustle. Last time I was jobless I had just straight up quit and it was probably one of the better moves I've made in my lifetime.
Having to pay $100/mo for health insurance blows, but that's the price of personal freedom I guess.
Sourdough is quite tasty though,
Good luck!
Try $248 with Cobra!
what you know about sourdough??
I don't understand Cobra. Seems like you have to pay a shitload more to use them as opposed to just signing up directly with a carrier like Kaiser.
Fuck, I pay more than that for just me and I have a job!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/29/night.shift.cancer.ap/index.html
LONDON, England (AP) -- Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer.
Graveyard shift work disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body's biological clock.
It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark.
Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen.
The American Cancer Society says it will likely follow. Up to now, the U.S. organization has considered the work-cancer link to be "uncertain, controversial or unproven."
The higher cancer rates don't prove working overnight can cause cancer. There may be other factors common among graveyard shift workers that raise their risk for cancer.
However, scientists suspect that overnight work is dangerous because it disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body's biological clock. The hormone melatonin, which can suppress tumor development, is normally produced at night.
If the graveyard shift theory eventually proves correct, millions of people worldwide could be affected. Experts estimate that almost 20 percent of the working population in developed countries work night shifts.
Among the first to spot the night shift-cancer connection was Richard Stevens, a cancer epidemiologist and professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center. In 1987, Stevens published a paper suggesting a link between light at night and breast cancer.
Back then, he was trying to figure out why breast cancer incidence suddenly shot up starting in the 1930s in industrialized societies, where nighttime work was considered a hallmark of progress. Most scientists were bewildered by his proposal.
But in recent years, several studies have found that women working at night over many years were indeed more prone to breast cancer. Also, animals that have their light-dark schedules switched develop more cancerous tumors and die earlier.
Some research also suggests that men working at night may have a higher rate of prostate cancer.
Because these studies mostly focused on nurses and airline crews, bigger studies in different populations are needed to confirm or disprove the findings.
There are still plenty of skeptics. And to put the risk in perspective, the "probable carcinogen" tag means that the link between overnight work and cancer is merely plausible.
Among the long list of agents that are listed as "known" carcinogens are alcoholic beverages and birth control pills. Such lists say nothing about exposure amount or length of time or how likely they are to cause cancer. The American Cancer Society web site notes that carcinogens do not cause cancer at all times.
Still, many doubters of the night shift link may be won over by the IARC's analysis to be published in the December issue of the journal Lancet Oncology.
"The indications are positive," said Vincent Cogliano, who heads up the agency's carcinogen classifications unit. "There was enough of a pattern in people who do shift work to recognize that there's an increase in cancer, but we can't rule out the possibility of other factors."
Scientists believe having lower melatonin levels can raise the risk of developing cancer. Light shuts down melatonin production, so people working in artificial light at night may have lower melatonin levels.
Melatonin can be taken as a supplement, but experts don't recommend it long-term, since that could ruin the body's ability to produce it naturally.
Sleep deprivation may be another factor in cancer risk. People who work at night are not usually able to completely reverse their day and night cycles.
"Night shift people tend to be day shift people who are trying to stay awake at night," said Mark Rea, director of the Light Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, who is not connected with the IARC analysis.
Not getting enough sleep makes your immune system vulnerable to attack, and less able to fight off potentially cancerous cells.
Confusing your body's natural rhythm can also lead to a breakdown of other essential tasks. "Timing is very important," Rea said. Certain processes like cell division and DNA repair happen at regular times.
Even worse than working an overnight shift is flipping between daytime and overnight work.
"The problem is resetting your body's clock," said Aaron Blair, of the United States' National Cancer Institute, who chaired IARC's recent meeting on shift work. "If you worked at night and stayed on it, that would be less disruptive than constantly changing shifts."
Anyone whose light and dark schedule is often disrupted -- including frequent long-haul travelers or insomniacs -- could theoretically face the same increased cancer risk, Stevens said.
He advises workers to sleep in a darkened room once they get off work. "The balance between light and dark is very important for your body. Just get a dark night's sleep."
Meanwhile, scientists are trying to come up with ways to reduce night workers' cancer risk. And some companies are experimenting with different lighting, seeking a type that doesn't affect melatonin production.
So far, the color that seems to have the least effect on melatonin is one that few people would enjoy working under: Red
pretty much the situation sucks for most people. obviously balleurs dont worry, but for the workingman/woman it's a pretty serious risk to hang w/out insurance. when major stuff does happen it's thousands of dollars easy to get fixed up
That's why I don't have health insurance right now!
Hospital bills are large if you don't have health insurance. I recently got in an accident on my motorcycle. I got an ambulance ride, x-rays, shots, cat-scan, the whole nine-yards. Without insurance it would probably have cost me $10,000.
I do H/R for my company and I've seen bills for minor accidents costing up to $5,000. It's covered by our workers comp though. Recent employee hit his head and had to get some stitches. We elected to pay for the first-aid instead of making it a workers comp claim to keep our workers comp rates down. Cost us $800.
But aren't you covered even if you're unemployed? I'd gladly pay higher taxes if I knew everyone was getting better healthcare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_Act_of_1986
Still doesn't make sense after reading this. Why are qualified people forced into a plan that costs them more personally than the employer was paying? Seems like bullshit.
Of course it doesnt make any damn sense. Didnt you ever wonder why they call it Cobra?
They just pray on the fact that when you are first unemployed, you're not really sure what your individual rate of coverage should be, so you unwittingly pay like 3 times as much until you wise up and check out other plans.
That shit is definitely a scam. I think they try to justify the crazy rate because they have to give you coverage and cant deny you anything because you were already insured through your company? I dunno.
Its pretty dastardly though if you ask me.
My advice is just to shop around. For individuals in California, Kaiser has a plan for $76 a month and Blue Shield/Cross has one for $90 a month. Both are decent, and at least you'll have basic coverage.
Good luck!
"I just got fired and damn did I deserve it, I was a total fuckoff"??
Sorta like not being able to find a guilty man in prison.
I got fired once in my life and it was a corrupt situation. Immediately there after the business went to shit because I was gone. My boss and her boss were demoted. I got on unemployment because they were to stupid to contest it so I never pushed the wrongful termination thing. I'm glad I'm gone.
Anyway, I rarely say anything about it because everyone thinks they were wrongfully terminated.
ba hahahhahahahaha so word
I got fired mabye a moth ago from my runner job at a studio out here. I totally didnt give a fuck, but the thing is i was better at it than alot of the retards they hired. I mean it wasnt a tough job, but whatever, i would say i deserved it.
I remeber a couple of years ago I was working this shitty job that had the worst insurance. So I ended my coverage and as soon as I did, I tore a muscle in my lower back. Yo, you want to feel pain?? That shit right there had me pissing side ways laying down. The pain from all that was just the beginining. With no insurance I had to pay back at least a minium of 2000.00 and a collection agency statered blowing the phone up when I missed one payment.