I'm guessing because "foolishly put her husband's name on her house title" either means it only had his name or (given the time) it was just assumed he owned and paid for the house and only had put her name on there as a "courtesy" because they were married.
Unfortunately, it doesn't give you the option to say "I believe this person is only trolling to disrupt the conversation", just "I disagree with this person" which sounds like you're just being petulant or that you're one of those caricatures the Right likes to use when complaining about (i.e., mischaracterizing) "safe spaces."(TBF, there are options for serious misbehavior, like using threats, targeted harassment or doxxing.)
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Who is Midwin Charles? Why are you talking about law firms?
What does my color have to do with wanting businesses and public employers to stop using contract labor and start treating them like loyal employees so that they can keep good employees and employees won't be out on the street on a whim? Not a fucking thing.
As someone who has had to rely on contract work more than once, I can say that contract work doesn't give underrepresented people a shot. It keeps us out.
One of my contract jobs was at a large cable company... nearly everyone in my building was a contractor except for the managers. The woman I worked most closely with, an older, single African American lady with no kids. She had been a contractor at that company for 12 years when I met her. 12 years. She was their institutional memory, and not only did her own job, but mentored new people and, as she was the only one still left in the department from its initial setup, also nursed their aging QA servers along, which, because Gayle was there to fix them, they didn't bother to replace.
More than a dozen years she was there... they relied on her in more ways than one. They knew how much they valued her, but because reporting contractor wages differently from employee wages gave them a financial advantage, they refused to hire her directly.
Her biggest concern was health insurance. Direct employees had pretty good medical benefits, and as she was diabetic, hypertensive, asthmatic, and overweight, she could have used them. Her diabetes was not well controlled, nor was her hypertension, mainly because she relied on walk-in clinics for her health care. She used to joke that she was just hanging in there until Obamacare started and she could get a real doctor.
The managers knew she had health issues. In the summer of 2013, when she started to have problems with her eyes, they gave her a new monitor and an office in which she could dim the lights rather than hiring her directly and giving her health insurance to manage her diabetes better.
In October of that year, she started to have a pain in her back. She thought it was a kidney infection, and self-treated with cranberry juice, but it stayed there. She went to the walk-in clinic and they gave her antibiotics, but it persisted. She started to feel very tired, and the pain in her back was constant, so she went back to the walk-in clinic and they said she might have a gall bladder problem and should see a surgeon. She went to the surgeon and organized a payment plan so he would take her gall bladder out.
Because she was a contractor, and didn't get paid if she didn't work, she was back to work within a few days of her surgery... and the pain in her back persisted. As with most diabetics, her surgical wound was slow to heal, which was made worse by returning to work too soon and not having consistent aftercare, so I was unsurprised when it became abcessed, causing her a great deal of pain.
She returned to the surgeon, who seemed mostly concerned with a possible malpractice claim and spent most of his energy reassuring her it wasn't his fault and such things can happen. And still the pain in her back got worse, and she began to be exhausted most of the time. She began to rely on a cane to walk even short distances, and was winded after walking just a few feet.
The Friday before Christmas that year, she asked me to wrap some gifts she was bringing to friends over the weekend, as she was hopeless with giftwrapping. As I wrapped her presents, she stood next to me - short of breath and leaning on her cane - and joked that it wouldn't be long now before Obamacare started and she could get health insurance. She promised to go to the doctor as soon as possible.
The next Monday, two days before Christmas, she told me how much she'd enjoyed seeing her friends, but how tired she was, and how she planned to visit her horse (stabled locally) later, and looked forward to a half day on Christmas Eve and a quiet Christmas with her dogs.
That evening, I walked into her office and found her dead on the floor.
The pain in her back had been two pulmonary emboli that killed her slowly over two and half months.
She didn't make it to Obamacare.
The company - that could have hired her directly, but wouldn't because it was to their financial advantage to rely on contractors to keep their numbers down - planted a tree in her honor.
I suspect she could have sued to get the house back unless she jumped thru the hoops to *remove* her name from the title and mortgage. This is the purpose of title insurance.
I went there; I read him (it? I don't know how good bots are at imitating humans these days); I called him "Boris" (only 30 comments) and I introduced him to my little friend, the "Block" function.
Yeah, I caught that. What was going on there?
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I'm guessing because "foolishly put her husband's name on her house title" either means it only had his name or (given the time) it was just assumed he owned and paid for the house and only had put her name on there as a "courtesy" because they were married.
Unfortunately, it doesn't give you the option to say "I believe this person is only trolling to disrupt the conversation", just "I disagree with this person" which sounds like you're just being petulant or that you're one of those caricatures the Right likes to use when complaining about (i.e., mischaracterizing) "safe spaces."(TBF, there are options for serious misbehavior, like using threats, targeted harassment or doxxing.)
I'm four years younger than you and my knees can't take kneeling without a pad under them.
They never do anything, though.
Or they could make you real employees with real benefits and real rules.
You're white, aren't you?
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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Who is Midwin Charles? Why are you talking about law firms?
What does my color have to do with wanting businesses and public employers to stop using contract labor and start treating them like loyal employees so that they can keep good employees and employees won't be out on the street on a whim? Not a fucking thing.
As someone who has had to rely on contract work more than once, I can say that contract work doesn't give underrepresented people a shot. It keeps us out.
One of my contract jobs was at a large cable company... nearly everyone in my building was a contractor except for the managers. The woman I worked most closely with, an older, single African American lady with no kids. She had been a contractor at that company for 12 years when I met her. 12 years. She was their institutional memory, and not only did her own job, but mentored new people and, as she was the only one still left in the department from its initial setup, also nursed their aging QA servers along, which, because Gayle was there to fix them, they didn't bother to replace.
More than a dozen years she was there... they relied on her in more ways than one. They knew how much they valued her, but because reporting contractor wages differently from employee wages gave them a financial advantage, they refused to hire her directly.
Her biggest concern was health insurance. Direct employees had pretty good medical benefits, and as she was diabetic, hypertensive, asthmatic, and overweight, she could have used them. Her diabetes was not well controlled, nor was her hypertension, mainly because she relied on walk-in clinics for her health care. She used to joke that she was just hanging in there until Obamacare started and she could get a real doctor.
The managers knew she had health issues. In the summer of 2013, when she started to have problems with her eyes, they gave her a new monitor and an office in which she could dim the lights rather than hiring her directly and giving her health insurance to manage her diabetes better.
In October of that year, she started to have a pain in her back. She thought it was a kidney infection, and self-treated with cranberry juice, but it stayed there. She went to the walk-in clinic and they gave her antibiotics, but it persisted. She started to feel very tired, and the pain in her back was constant, so she went back to the walk-in clinic and they said she might have a gall bladder problem and should see a surgeon. She went to the surgeon and organized a payment plan so he would take her gall bladder out.
Because she was a contractor, and didn't get paid if she didn't work, she was back to work within a few days of her surgery... and the pain in her back persisted. As with most diabetics, her surgical wound was slow to heal, which was made worse by returning to work too soon and not having consistent aftercare, so I was unsurprised when it became abcessed, causing her a great deal of pain.
She returned to the surgeon, who seemed mostly concerned with a possible malpractice claim and spent most of his energy reassuring her it wasn't his fault and such things can happen. And still the pain in her back got worse, and she began to be exhausted most of the time. She began to rely on a cane to walk even short distances, and was winded after walking just a few feet.
The Friday before Christmas that year, she asked me to wrap some gifts she was bringing to friends over the weekend, as she was hopeless with giftwrapping. As I wrapped her presents, she stood next to me - short of breath and leaning on her cane - and joked that it wouldn't be long now before Obamacare started and she could get health insurance. She promised to go to the doctor as soon as possible.
The next Monday, two days before Christmas, she told me how much she'd enjoyed seeing her friends, but how tired she was, and how she planned to visit her horse (stabled locally) later, and looked forward to a half day on Christmas Eve and a quiet Christmas with her dogs.
That evening, I walked into her office and found her dead on the floor.
The pain in her back had been two pulmonary emboli that killed her slowly over two and half months.
She didn't make it to Obamacare.
The company - that could have hired her directly, but wouldn't because it was to their financial advantage to rely on contractors to keep their numbers down - planted a tree in her honor.
Fuck contracting.
I suspect she could have sued to get the house back unless she jumped thru the hoops to *remove* her name from the title and mortgage. This is the purpose of title insurance.
@dokzoom there is a nasty troll on yesterdays Candace Owen post. It looks like you might have nuked his fist post He is going by the handle truthman.
People like Rand Paul?
I like the idea of requiring police to take out a bond, but I would go with the solutions you propose.
only legitimate lynchings!
I went there; I read him (it? I don't know how good bots are at imitating humans these days); I called him "Boris" (only 30 comments) and I introduced him to my little friend, the "Block" function.