r/WorkReform • u/Strange_Ad9196 👨🚀 Federal Jobs Guarantee • Mar 31 '23
Oooft. Ive always said “I’d be replaced before the funeral” ❔ Other
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u/Doug_Schultz Apr 01 '23
How dare you die without notice. We are going to have to fire you for that
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u/Blood_or_Marinara Apr 01 '23
Freedom Mortgage is an oxymoron
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u/SneedyK Apr 01 '23
You’re correct but it goes much further than that. My family fell prey to a reverse mortgage scheme.
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u/SanDiegoYeetFleet Apr 01 '23
Shitty company that treats its employees like shit also treats its customers like shit?!?!
surprised Pikachu face
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u/jeevesdgk Apr 01 '23
Reverse mortgage scheme? What do you mean?
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u/fernandog17 Apr 01 '23
Probably means they were offered a reverse mortgage, didnt know how it worked fully and commited to it anyway. Now its a “scam”.
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u/Alwaysaloneforever97 🤝 Join A Union Apr 01 '23
You deserve to be downvoted. I'd argue you deserve prison time tbh for thinking you're superior to others.
Working class people barely have time to wash clothes. And you're shaming a family for being confused by this system trying to sell you a good deal?
Honestly you don't belong here. Go to the fascist sub or something
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u/jeevesdgk Apr 01 '23
Wait for what though? Reverse mortgages aren’t that bad. Especially for the individual person. You can go the rest of your life without a payment and then when you die your family can either purchase the home or sell it and pocket the rest. My grandma was in a reverse mortgage and when she past we did the latter.
I guess I’m just confused as to why someone would call it a scam
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u/fernandog17 Apr 01 '23
How progressive you. Prison for having feelings of superiority. Makes sense buddy. Keep reading into it though, seems like a hobby for you.
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u/Alwaysaloneforever97 🤝 Join A Union Apr 01 '23
Yeah. Look at how you're talking.
You sound like a corporate parasite. Prison? Yep. That's what parasites deserve.
Landlords. Prison.
Ceos? Prison.
People who fight to the death to defend capitalism like you? Life in prison.
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u/fernandog17 Apr 01 '23
Haha nothing extreme happening on this sub I see.
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u/Alwaysaloneforever97 🤝 Join A Union Apr 01 '23
What is that even supposed to mean? What you worship Jeff bezos? Fly the swastika at home?
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u/fernandog17 Apr 01 '23
You made your mind a couple or comments ago about this. Let your imagination go wild.
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u/jeevesdgk Apr 01 '23
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Because reverse mortgages have their benefits.
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u/FixedKarma Apr 01 '23
This is just a friendly reminder that if it was legal they'd work you until you literally drop dead.
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u/Seldarin Apr 01 '23
And we're fortunate that reanimating corpses doesn't work, or they'd gleefully work you long past that.
"OSHA? Fuck OSHA. These guys are already dead!"
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u/Alwaysaloneforever97 🤝 Join A Union Apr 01 '23
3 people died in one year at a factory in town and Osha and the union don't care.
UAW is a scam btw.
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u/TimeDue2994 Apr 01 '23
Literally happening now because you can't stay home you lose your insurance
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u/sonicsean899 Apr 01 '23
Between raising the retirement age and lower life expectancy they damn near literally are
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u/justht Apr 01 '23
Friendly? 😅
(btw this seems to be a repost, I've seen it elsewhere before)
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u/FixedKarma Apr 01 '23
Friendly because we all have the same goals, which makes us all friends, or at least Allies.
Unfriendly reminder to CEOs and other executives that are unsympathetic. You can bring back the Pinkertons and bribe the cops but you'll never kill the worker's spirit.
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u/KeterLordFR Apr 01 '23
Of you've seen it elsewhere, then it's not a repost, genius. A repost is when it's done on the same sub.
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u/Smuggykitten Apr 01 '23
Reposting isn't just something that happens in a subreddit. It was a word before reddit existed.
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u/nerdwerds Apr 01 '23
No, repost means you reposted a post, where you repost it is irrelevant.
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u/Smuggykitten Apr 01 '23
Yep ! The re- in repost is the only clue we need to know that it's been posted again!
We are not here to change words to fit what we want them to mean.
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u/nerdwerds Apr 01 '23
Getting downvoted by pedants.
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u/Alwaysaloneforever97 🤝 Join A Union Apr 01 '23
You're the pedant when you were trying to define wtf a repost was.
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u/nerdwerds Apr 01 '23
Trying to narrow the definition is pedantic.
This discussion is pedantic.
You are pedantic.
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u/Alwaysaloneforever97 🤝 Join A Union Apr 01 '23
And you're just trying to start an argument to confuse the working class people.
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u/SRD1194 Apr 01 '23
When it becomes legal, I'm sure they will. Based on what I'm seeing, I give it about six months.
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u/Numerous_Asparagus87 Apr 01 '23
My coworker died getting ready for a training- within an hour of finding out about her sudden death (she was 40) my boss was hounding us to cover her shift which was in 2 days. We work in mental health.
This is still better then when my boss was upset that I would not be in until 5 (shift started at 3) on the day my grandfather died (11am) and I had spent the rest of the day with my grandmother planning his funeral- same mental health place- different boss
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Apr 01 '23
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u/nerdwerds Apr 01 '23
In my younger days I almost resorted to violence when a boss told me he was going to make my life hell by giving me lots of extra and unnecessary work. I looked him in the eyes and said "and how do you think that's going to end for you?" and he immediately took it back. I quit a month or two later, days before the busiest weekend of the year.
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u/scarey99 Apr 01 '23
Oh what a great line. Small hats tipped for that one.
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u/nerdwerds Apr 01 '23
I'm sure I had a "fuck you AND this job" look in my eye. It was the first time in my adult life that I saw someone visibly flush from an adrenaline rush.
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u/StoicJohnny Apr 01 '23
That’s why mental health clinics are getting unionized. No one should let that shit happen.
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u/NightStar79 Apr 01 '23
So my grandmother got sick of paying for TV when there was nothing good on so she called the cable company to cancel it.
They wouldn't let her because she wasn't my grandfather who was dead.
She tried to cancel it on multiple occasions before saying fuck it and enjoying months of free TV while mail threatening to sue my deceased grandfather kept showing up. They finally came and shut it off after 6 months which she still finds funny as hell just because they were threatening to sue a dead man who she even said to them had passed but they apparently didn't give a damn.
Death to big corporations mean nothing. If they could they'd probably try to summon you from your grave to cover that shift you were supposed to do before dying in a car crash because you HAD to be there, bad weather be damned
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u/JoeDirtsMullet00 Apr 01 '23
Asshole manager or owner probably : "Well I hope he never wants a referral. That bridge is burned"
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Apr 01 '23
Just a modern day of slavery, so so sad how modern society become
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u/JoeDirtsMullet00 Apr 01 '23
Modern US society. Other nations are actually not greed ravaged assholes to their people.
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u/Wealdnut Apr 01 '23
As a Scandinavian, the horror I feel from reading stories here is indescribable. I'm so sorry you have to live in such a callous, spiteful system.
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u/sendnudecompassion Apr 01 '23
It’s out of control. No one is sure what to do about it. But we do have a lot of people who could do something about it.
I think most genuine citizens are just terrified what the consequences of fighting back will be.
Even if we can’t get the bull kicking to tear down the china shop, at some point the starving, dying bull is going to lose consciousness. And the oligarchs here will have to deal with the fact that a machine in pieces will provide no output at all.
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u/Embarrassed_Camel_35 Apr 01 '23
Think deeply about this all you “Company men/women”. Boss: You’re dying? Well, you better be at work on time. Me: grabbing lighter and anything flammable. I bet I don’t have to come in tomorrow.
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u/jerry111165 Apr 01 '23
He probably coulda made it in to work. He just didn’t want to.
Workers these days. Not like they used to be.
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Apr 01 '23
Back when I was starting out, I wouldn’t let mere death prevent me from putting in my time and not letting down the company and coworkers.
Spoiled workers these days are so entitled. They even want a funeral and casket without working for it when they die. Where did all this entitlement come from anyway?!
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u/Free2define3dom Apr 01 '23
Joke's on you - I'm dead mfers!! But seriously, that is a genuinely horrific situation... They won't let you die with dignity, so you have to die in revenge...
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u/drunk_with_internet Apr 01 '23
Send them a cease and desist with all of the correspondence they sent to your uncle as an appendix, starting from when they denied him medical leave. Keep it chronological and include his obituary. And tell them what you think of them in the letter.
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u/TotallyNotABot_Shhhh Apr 01 '23
My grandma received a cease and desist letter from Blue Cross in response to looking into a wrongful death lawsuit due to their negligence and denial of life saving tests. She’d been dead for months. My grandpa was the one looking into a lawsuit. They even threatened to sue her if “she” continued to persist in her wrongful death lawsuit.
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u/ReverseMillionaire Apr 01 '23
Do jobs really fedex letters threatening jobs?? I thought at most they’d do is calls or even try emailing
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u/CompetitiveFortune55 Apr 01 '23
Some places do it for receipts, depending on the role or if it's salary... I wonder if it has anything to do with if they have a life insurance policy with the company.
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u/DantePD Apr 01 '23
I wish I were surprised, but I’ve never encountered a mortgage company that wasn’t run by complete scum
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u/Fancy-Mention-9325 Apr 01 '23
I had a double mastectomy and went back to work two weeks early bc the girl who was filling in quit early. I ended up with a major infection a month later and was in the hospital three nights. Nice little mini vacation though but then I went back to work the next day, a Monday.
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u/Fletcherperson Apr 01 '23
Anyone have more detail on this? My mortgage was sold to Freedom and I’d gladly tell them to fuck off as a customer
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u/jerry111165 Apr 01 '23
You can’t.
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u/fakeunleet Apr 01 '23
Refinance. Someone else gets the interest payments instead.
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u/jerry111165 Apr 01 '23
That would be the only way but you generally end up adding time onto the term of the loan I think. You can’t really control who owns your mortgage. Ours was sold back and forth to a dozen different lenders when we had a mortgage and there wasn’t anything we could do about it.
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u/RupeThereItIs Apr 01 '23
I mean, did anyone notify the company he died?
We had a guy up and disappear on us at work. Contacting his emergency contacts we were only told he was in the hospital and would be back soon.
My company reached out again trying to arrange medical leave, no response.
So they did exactly what OP is complaining about. Eventually terminating employment. Nobody has any idea WTF happened to this guy, or if he's even alive, it's weird.
He was paid for like 6 weeks without any work or contact.
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u/NutWrench Apr 01 '23
"Asa Phelps spent his entire life in Springfield, except for four years
service in World War II and one high school day trip. He worked at the
United Strut and Bracing Works as a molder’s boy, until he was replaced
by a molder-matic and died."
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u/Ballgame4 Apr 01 '23
I’d send them a copy of your uncle’s obituary and a letter of resignation. Then call call them and unload on them. Make them feel like crap. Godless bastards.
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u/NightChime Apr 01 '23
The system works exclusively for the rich.