This is just slavery. Fuck the USA. What a nightmare to live in

Long- and short-term disability need regulation. Companies cut funding to their own employees at times when it hurts the most while also throwing them to the health insurance vultures.

It sends the message fuck you, find your own way or die.

You don't ask for favors when your life is through

You've got a right to what's coming to you

Your boss gets a pension when he is too old

You helped him retire, you're out in the cold

Too old to work, too old to work

When you're too old to work and you're too young to die

Who will take care of you, how'll you get by

Whеn you're too old to work and you're too young to die?

Too old to work

Netherlands here:

Yikes.

Indentured servitude for the ability to exist.

No vitals for 10 minutes doesn't make sense

1. Anyone without vitals for 10 minutes would he dead

2. They should have still had vitals with a heart attack

Has the frog been boiled yet?

This man has likely been a part of the work force for almost SIXTY YEARS.

still not enough

The Republican plan for us all.

The American safety net is in israel right now. These guys just don't fucking care about us. We are strategic human capital and we don't matter. And these people claim they're 'godly' . Imagine if they were satanist

I don't know where the guy in the post is from. When I started a job with disability benefits (not sure if they were from the company or the state), they emphasized that we needed to look at the tax / take-home implications for if we were ever on disability.

If we had our disability insurance payment taken out of our paycheck before taxes were paid from our paycheck, then we would also owe taxes on any payments we got while we were on disability. If we paid taxes first and then paid for our disability insurance, then any payments would be tax-free.

Thing was, after taxes and deductions from our regular paycheck, we only got about 80% of the money we'd earned. And disability paid 80% of our regular paycheck. So if you paid for disability after paying taxes, you would still have about the same amount of income (though being disabled would bring in a bunch of new expenses). But if you paid for disability before paying taxes, then disability would pay 80% of your regular paycheck, and then it would be taxed - meaning you'd only be getting about 65% of your usual income.

I know it's not like that everywhere, and many places don't even have disability anymore. But if you're getting disability insurance deducted from your paycheck, it's worth checking the tax/income implications if you ever need to claim it.

American here, this isn't even remotely the saddest story I've heard. In fact, it's a pretty happy one.

I'm not joking.

This sums up capitalism, i.e. for-profit institution in general.

The american dream is a nightmare.

It was international news when China proposed raising it's maximum retirement age to 63.

I was told that this proved only Capitalism could guarantee a good retirement.

This is conservatism. Conservatives (including neo-liberals) serve the billionaire class. Conservatives have ALWAYS been the foot-soldiers of the wealthy.

It is conservatives who despise unions and conservatives who violently attack and murder union members for the rich during strikes. It is conservatives who allow the rich to be immune to laws and taxes.

Conservatives are doing this to us. They cannot stop on their own. We must physically, forcibly, violently help them stop. If we do not, they will kill us all.

The boss cannot be defeated until his foot-soldiers are dead.

This is pretty much what I'm looking at if I get hurt at work. At best I can get 60% of my normal take home, or if I pay like 50-100+/mo more, I can get a whole 6.67% more! Totally worth it! /s

Some places on this earth are horrible and Im pretty sure if reincarnation is real, we are all going to experience this shit (or have before).

I had a colleague who went into a diabetic shock at work. Passed out, due to other related things, his retina disconnected. They had him back in two weeks, and framed him for stealing cash from the register rather than cover the treatment to recover. Gotta love corporate America.

Had another buddy, and three others conveniently murdered the night before a Lyft Union contract was up for negotiation in my home city. Needless to say, negotiations were conveniently cancelled, and the union disbanded in following days, suddenly lacking four of the main officers.

Just saying, if you think you're costing the corporations too much, none of us are, and they'll pay to make sure you don't.