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From my understanding of the ADA, my employer is only required to make some "reasonable accommodations" available, and not tailor them to my specific needs. As stated in the link provided, "An employer is not required to provide an accommodation that would involve undue hardship (significant difficulty or expense)." I would think it would be possible for my employer to argue that setting up remote work would involve undue hardship...
The state I work in is an "at will" state, so you're right that I'm at the whim of my employer. I also need health insurance to cover my ongoing treatment, and sometimes it feels like my employer knows that as well. Why would they worry about how they treat me when they know that there's no way I can just leave?
This might get me sent home, but this doesn't help me continue to make money while out of work. The problem is I am not in a position where I can take two weeks of unpaid leave. We are already only given 12 days of PTO, and I have to use those to cover the days I go to treatment.
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young_blood on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am 8 months post Autologous stem-cell transplant for treatment of Hodgkin's Lymphoma and as such, I am still immuno-suppressed. I am already extremely concerned about contracting COVID-19 since I am required to visit the hospital once every three weeks for post transplant treatment, and I know they're already under-equipped to handle the situation. I am a developer who could work from home,...
I recently received treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma and have been trudging through bills for the past 3 years. I've found that most if not all of my medical bills contained errors, which had I not looked into, would've cost me in excess of $10k+. The most common error was the billing department submitting a bill to my insurance company months after the date I received the services. I wrote a post explaining how I used python OCR to look for these discrepancies.
My father is also a pharmacist (and now owns a pharmacy) and he constantly tells me horror stories about the cat and mouse game that insurers play with patients, where they have doctors prescribe and offer discounts on specific drugs, depending on what is most profitable. He pointed to an interesting bit of software [1] that uses machine learning to find the best margins.
I could seriously go on and on about all the insanity that is our healthcare system. These problems runs deep, from top to bottom.
[1] - https://amplicare.com/
I wholeheartedly disagree. I would much rather have some sort of warning than to have the decision made for me. If an indicator in the dash turned on saying "the oil is not the correct viscosity," then I would be able to decide to not run the vehicle.
Imagine you were stranded somewhere and the only option was to use the wrong oil. Sure, it may destroy the vehicle, but at least you would be able to run the vehicle and (hopefully) get to safety before your engine block melts. My issue is when the decision has been made that "you _might_ break it, so we've taken the choice away."
Another example might be, should users not be allowed to install programs on their computer because those programs might interfere with the computer's performance?
Even if there were, should it matter? You could fill your car with moonshine and attempt to run it. It might explode, sure, but the car doesn't detect that the fuel is not the specified quality and decide to not run entirely.
Would something like a "using unauthorized filters voids your warranty" agreement suffice? I can understand the manufacturer's desire to avoid costly repairs caused by shoddy aftermarket parts, but I don't understand the idea of rendering the end product totally unusable.
To put it another way, should my car stop running entirely if it detects that I'm using a "non-GM-certified" cabin air filter?
Thank you very much. I figure I'll keep slowly pushing along this python script I have and add features when and where I can. Maybe one day it'll be at a point that it can be released as some sort of OS project to help others in a similar situation.
Posted by
young_blood on Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and went through both the general ABVD treatment and an Autologous Stem Cell Transplant roughly a year later. I'm still receiving and attempting to navigate the dozens of bills I've received, and have had changes in my insurance multiple times throughout the process, complicating things further.I’ve tried to do research on my own, but many of the...
I've owned and used an OnlyKey for around a year and a half now and have had a really positive experience using mine. There is one issue, unfortunately the LED lights do not work when the key is plugged into a USB 3 port. The key itself works, but you do not get any LED feedback which can make unlocking and using it a little difficult. Be sure to keep this in mind if you're thinking about purchasing one.
It gets worse. They just updated the Terms, however, they copied them directly from this site here:
https://scale.com/legal/terms
They even forgot to change the links, so all sebenz.ai links still go to the scale site...
Clicking the "Download" link on your "Terms" page takes me to the following page [1] and clicking the "Get in touch" link takes me to a dead page [2]. Also, your title is still set as "Quicksmart - Webflow HTML Website Template" which appears on the tab for your page. I would suggest going over your site once more and clear up some of these low hanging fruit, as it really doesn't give me a lot of confidence that I'll be paid for my work. :)
[1] - https://webflow.com/templates/template-licenses
[2] - https://www.sebenz.ai/contact/contact-1
Edit: As I was submitting this, I see the Get in touch link has been updated, however, the Download link has not, and the terms has simply changed to "We encrypt all data in transit and at rest."
That's great, but, that doesn't really sound like Terms of Service to me.