Posted by: djcnor on: May 12, 2009
I am deffinitely annoyed, and I mean annoyed in the British sense as in seriously ticked off.So I think I’m getting £20 per hour (because the agency told me so), then find out that includes my holiday pay (so I get paid nothing for any holidays I take), then find out I’m only getting 5/6 of that, then find out that my pay has been cut by 35% for subsequent days, then find out I’ve got to work longer hours for that lesser pay. Did I question it? WELL, YEAH!
And I just got their answer. You aren’t going to believe this?!?! They say everything up to the very last is a mistake and they’ll be adjusting my subsequent pay checks to take back the “extra” pay they gave me!
Posted by: djcnor on: April 6, 2009
Walking into the room is an exercise in balance and precise footing. Accomplishing anything in the room, aside from weaving, is out of the question. Weaving is uncomfortable, and warping the loom, even for a belt-width warp, was a job for a contortionist, which at 58 I am not.
Posted by: djcnor on: April 3, 2009
All I know is I’m 58 and still full to the brim with life and passion and an unwillingness to settle, and it’s driving me into poverty and I don’t know what to do about it, because I cannot help caring as much as I do. Do I just have to throw up my hands and go for it, just set myself to live however I have to in order to do it? Is there anyone else out there like me? Well, is there?
Posted by: djcnor on: March 27, 2009
Programs such as the one described above maintain the skills of the workforce. Workers affected by the downturn don’t fall behind and have none of the kinds of resume/CV gaps that make finding new jobs harder. No one loses access to the level of healthcare coverage they had before. What’s more is it costs considerably less than the American version of stimulus.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 25, 2009
Since I’m in the UK, I didn’t get to watch the press conference. However, the full transcript is available, so I’m reading it. It may take more than one post for my entire response.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 20, 2009
There are some Americans who will be uncomfortable with a President who is clearly human, recognizes that there are areas in which he may actually fall below the average (which is really what that Special Olympics remark was all about), and is determined to do what he can to remain that way, but I’m not one of them. I also want to complement Michelle Obama on her efforts in that respect.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 17, 2009
just let me state my support for the idea of letting even illegal immigrants pay in state tuition at colleges.
Posted by: djcnor on: February 25, 2009
Today’s issues are more complicated and they demand a more educated populace. Obama intends to give us one, and that’s a good thing.
GoodTimePolitics Is a Coward
Posted by: djcnor on: March 4, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-burger/ugly-health-care-waiting-_b_55749.html
which actually quotes the chief medical officer of Aetna insurance, speaking at an investor’s conference as saying:
The U.S. “healthcare system is not timely.”
Recent statistics from the Institution of Healthcare Improvement document “that people are waiting an average of about 70 days to see a provider.”
“In many circumstances people initially diagnosed with cancer are waiting over a month, which is intolerable.”
In his former stint as an administrator and head of a physicians’ organization he spent much of his time trying “to find appointments for people with doctors.”