get ready for when the job market inevitably eats shit
I’m not at all shocked. At my company my coworker i rationing his medication. I’m concerned he could die at any time due to this. We as a team mentioned this to work and HR’s answer was they sent a provider listing.
Bruh. That is literally a scenario I’d expect to see laid out in an email message in Cyberpunk 2077. Or the background for a Cyberpsycho story.
How fucking dystopian.
Any chance s/he could contact the manufacturer? Some of them have programs outside of insurance to make critical medicines affordable.
I can mention that at work to them. Thanks for that
Wow. You should report HR to HR. Also get a new job. That’s like a rich city council person, who has full ability to help in many ways, giving a homeless person a magazine with real estate listings.
Out of our department of 7; I found out during an interview that 5 of us applied for the same position at a competitor.
Although credit cards are predatory, there has to be some sort of personal responsibility right?
People have lives and emergencies but personal responsibility and not caring about other people or something.
Right… but sometimes people fall on hard times. They may get laid off and need food or to pay rent for the month. They may get an unexpected medical expense. They use a credit card in the hopes they’ll bounce back on their feet soon… but high interest rates make it harder and harder to pay it back. Interest rates should never be above 20%. And even that is high.
But yes, there are those who use it to go partying or buy expensive toys too.
I used mine to cover a job loss for food and gas, and have finally been able to knock it down after two years of buying very little to ensure most of my money goes to paying them off. It is harder than it should be to get back on my feet, especially when I am making more money than I ever have in my life, but the cost of shit also went up with my pay, so it is effectively the same as it was when I was a TEEN.
…seriously? People are struggling all over this country because prices are skyrocketing and jobs don’t pay nearly enough for your average American to keep up, and you think its their fault in any capacity?
I never said that. I’m just saying that nobody is forcing anyone to open a credit card.
Imagine you are working 2 minimum wage jobs and rent has gone up. You are a single parent. Your car gets a flat tire and its 200 to replace. Do you open a credit line to fix the tire, skip groceries for a week or just don’t pay your cellular bill?
People aren’t stretching their payments because its fun.
This is just one example and an extreme one at that. I’m not even talking about those people or those scenarios. I’m talking about the people that make unnecessary credit card purchases when they cannot afford it. It’s financial responsibility. There are people making six figures that are in debt.
I’m not even talking about those people or those scenarios.
you call them the extreme scenario, but they are the norm. this kind of scenario is the average reality for a massive number of Americans. it might not be “single parent with a flat tire”, but there are thousands of ways people get stuck in a rut with only credit as a lifeline, and it’s getting more and more common, and it’s rarely something that could be foreseen or mitigated against. that’s how our society is constructed now. desperation is the norm. it’s profitable.
that is what this trend reveals. the ones who buy more than they need on credit they barely qualify for are the minority. the desperate are the majority.
you’d think you’d take some personal responsibility over your ignorance on the matter before loudly asserting that desperate people need to just pull up on their bootstraps harder and stop whining near you.
Every price has gone up. Salaries haven’t. So… yeah.
Exactly. A more accurate headline would be “Americans are Falling Behind on their Income.”
“Somebody think of the poor banks”
