Twine - did you get hit today?

[Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith)]

The wife got a wage deduction from Principal...wondering if it was company wide.

Shit is getting tight!!!

[twinegarden]

Yeah but it"s only 2%. There were reductions between 2% and 10% depending on your salary. Mine might be 4%, not sure yet. I still got an 8% raise recently so it doesn't really bother me that much. Supposedly it was either cut everyones pay or lay off 1000 people. I'd definately take the pay decrease rather than lose my job.

[socal]

You work at Principal? Those / you motherfuckers are on my shitlist right now.


I had AMAZING insurance through September last year, so great that I stocked up on enough of my medications to last me a great while.

Then we were bought by the company soon to lay me off, and they stuck us with Principal. Due to the stock of meds I have, I've simply had the premiums deducted and had no need to see a Dr.

Until a few weeks ago I decided to go get some prescriptions and use the 90 day supply mail-in program, as I might not have insurance for a while.

Everything went fine until I received a "Pre-existing condition" letter from Principal telling me they won't cover my doctor visit unless I provide a letter from my previous insurer - or give the names of the doctors I visited & all the meds I used over the past year.


With the 15 or so insurance plans I've had over the past 9 years with this company, you bastards are the first to deny me coverage for BS like this. And to do it on an $80 bill that represents the one and only time I visit a doctor while under their plan. ---seems a bit much.

[mattahawk]

Wow Socal, you just have one sob story after another lately. Glad to see you have joined the club.

[Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith)]

Mar 20, 2009 13:58:39 GMT -6 @twinegarden said:

Supposedly it was either cut everyones pay or lay off 1000 people. I'd definately take the pay decrease rather than lose my job.

Amen, brotha. The wife is keeping it in that perspective as well.

[twinegarden]

Socal,

I can't really say to much about the insurance side of the buisness as I work in the retirement/investing department. I do know though that that part of the buisness is where alot of the hurt is going on and that pretty much all insurance companies are doing dickish things to avoid having to shell out money. It's a crock of shit and I feel for you. I can't help but think you would get this alot of treatment with any new provider though. Pretty messed up and I am by no means defending the company.

Kind of ties in pretty closely to the Sicko thread.

Either way, good luck finding a new job and everything, hopefully it ends up being a blessing in disguise.

[roxxstar]

Sometimes I eat bananas. But they aren't really bananas. They are high powered, nuclear filled helium baloons of soda; pork soda. Sometimes one may wonder if lovely licks of the truth may satisfy, but it won't. Only hidden in the deep, dark, chasms of the unhibited, may one find pure truth.

Truth, a substance most offered with candy flavoring. Tasked by the sweat of the normal, i suffer. Suffer with the headaches of salty fries and unstubsantiated promises of arrogant downies on a meth-fueled game of russian omelets. Not even the good ones, the ones made of macorini and the tears of cancer victims.

Fart, fart into this cup. Then wait two years and make a fart joke. Three months after that, try to get someone to loan you money and make some sort of business related to farts. If yoiu can really do that, you are a hell of a salesman.

If you can't, worry not. There are always cheeseburges and tears of Mexcio. Mexican is latin for gay. Not the gay, as in the butt pirates, but the gay as in Stukat's burnt kittens. Kittens set afire after hearing the agonzing sound of the sirens calls.

Speaking of Sirens, have you ever noticed that Domino's pizza is getting progressivley worse? Seriously, I used to be a fan of Domino's, buit now it seems like every time I order frorm there it sucks balls. I'm not even kidding, Domino's pisses me off.

Enliightenment, is it a word or a concept? Is it discovery or is it re-hashed bullshit. Is it the same bitter nuggets of matter that swell with foolish pride? Is it Ronnie's mom in shorts? Ronnie Grife, the guy behind the satire. The one, ulitmate curveball in the human existence. I love Ronnie Grife. But not in the chop him up and eat him way, more like in I wish I didnt have this cough way.

Speaking of Montana, I was thinking of buying land there. Have you ever pondered the origin of cheese? I haven't. One time I made the mistake of renting a blimp. It was an exttemely inefficient way of travel. I spent more then I would have if I just would have drove. That was the last of my blimp renting days.

Peace out suckers. BTW, you each owe me $1 for entertaining you. Peace.

[roxxstar]

Mar 21, 2009 1:58:30 GMT -6 @roxxstar said:

Sometimes I eat bananas. But they aren't really bananas. They are high powered, nuclear filled helium baloons of soda; pork soda. Sometimes one may wonder if lovely licks of the truth may satisfy, but it won't. Only hidden in the deep, dark, chasms of the unhibited, may one find pure truth.

Truth, a substance most offered with candy flavoring. Tasked by the sweat of the normal, i suffer. Suffer with the headaches of salty fries and unstubsantiated promises of arrogant downies on a meth-fueled game of russian omelets. Not even the good ones, the ones made of macorini and the tears of cancer victims.

Fart, fart into this cup. Then wait two years and make a fart joke. Three months after that, try to get someone to loan you money and make some sort of business related to farts. If yoiu can really do that, you are a hell of a salesman.

If you can't, worry not. There are always cheeseburges and tears of Mexcio. Mexican is latin for gay. Not the gay, as in the butt pirates, but the gay as in Stukat's burnt kittens. Kittens set afire after hearing the agonzing sound of the sirens calls.

Speaking of Sirens, have you ever noticed that Domino's pizza is getting progressivley worse? Seriously, I used to be a fan of Domino's, buit now it seems like every time I order frorm there it sucks balls. I'm not even kidding, Domino's pisses me off.

Enliightenment, is it a word or a concept? Is it discovery or is it re-hashed bullshit. Is it the same bitter nuggets of matter that swell with foolish pride? Is it Ronnie's mom in shorts? Ronnie Grife, the guy behind the satire. The one, ulitmate curveball in the human existence. I love Ronnie Grife. But not in the chop him up and eat him way, more like in I wish I didnt have this cough way.

Speaking of Montana, I was thinking of buying land there. Have you ever pondered the origin of cheese? I haven't. One time I made the mistake of renting a blimp. It was an exttemely inefficient way of travel. I spent more then I would have if I just would have drove. That was the last of my blimp renting days.

Peace out suckers. BTW, you each owe me $1 for entertaining you. Peace.

Jagermeister. I think that sums it up.