Welp, just sent my official letter of resignation. As of July 10th, I will no longer be working in healthcare.

^ This reminds me- I forgot to formally resign.

I assume this is a good thing? If I may, why resign and were to next?

Been working in a small IT department for a home health organization for the last 4 years. It's fine, but there's no room to grow, and the company was recently purchased by an out-of-state healthcare provider, so even the things I like about it could be changing in the near future.

I interviewed with Bomgar last year, and was going to receive an offer when they had an ownership change that resulted in a hiring freeze. They contacted me again last week, brought me in for a quick interview Friday, and then made me an offer on Monday morning. I'll still be working in support, but it will be in a tech company rather than healthcare, and I'll be one jump away from moving into product support/development, quality assurance, or other more interesting internal departments.

Bomgar is an atrocity, and it must be destroyed.

(We were forced to use it back at Harris. 70% of the functionality of Join.me, with none of the convenience.)

Those are two completely different products. Why was someone making you use Bomgar as a collaboration tool?

Ouch, right in the feels. I've been going through something similar for the last couple years and I've started looking around as well. Good luck with the new employer!

Corporate IS standardized on it for the service departments to use for remote customer support.

Thanks. Tech options are limited in a small market like this. Bomgar seems to be a great company though, so I'm excited.

How long ago was that? It's been around a long time and has definitely been polished up over the last few years. We've been using it here for 4+ years and it has worked great for us.

I left Harris in mid-2013. They'd rolled it out maybe 2-3 years before that.

An article from a source which, according to CNN Money, "offers a deeply conspiratorial, anti-establishment and pessimistic view of the world." (source):


Startling Look At How Much Money Food Stamp Recipients Spend On Junk Food

A new study just released by the USDA, offers a very detailed look at exactly how participants in the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" (SNAP, aka Food Stamps) spend their taxpayer-funded subsidies. Unfortunately for taxpayers, the amount of money spent on soft drinks and other unnecessary junk foods/drinks is fairly staggering. But, we suppose it's a nice taxpayer funded subsidy for the soda industry...so score one for Warren Buffett and the Coca Cola lobbyists.

Per the study, nearly $360mm, or 5.4% of the $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on soft drinks alone. In fact, soft drinks represent the single largest "commodity" purchased by SNAP participants with $100mm more spent on sodas than milk and $150mm more than beef.
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Even worse, when we added up all of the commodities that would typically be considered "junk food" (i.e. soft drinks, candy, cakes, energy drinks, etc.), we found that roughly $950mm, or just over 14% of the aggregate $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on unnecessary, unhealthy products.

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As CNS News points out, the study was conducted by IMPAQ international and analyzed the sales of a single national retail chain back in 2011.
It's a good thing democrats re-branded Food Stamps as the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program"....otherwise we would have confused it for a blatant waste of taxpayer money on sodas and energy drinks.

The full report from the USDA: https://www.scribd.com/document/3320...016-11-23-SNAP

Startling Look At How Much Money Food Stamp Recipients Spend On Junk Food | Zero Hedge

I know I posted about it recently, but saw a couple guys try to buy a salad at a Circle K with their EBT card, and it was rejected. No problem with hot dogs, chips or nachos( the idea of Circle K nachos makes me shiver).

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And well it should!

From just a few weeks ago near here*:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/health...ese/index.html

I mean, who would buy nachos at a place like this? :

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Ironically, this guy's wife and kids could now end up on food stamps, if it weren't for the inevitable lawsuit money they'll undoubtedly receive.


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*actually, it's closer to Vlad.

Serious question: do responsible adults do their regular grocery shopping at Circle-K?

I'm not asking sarcastically. I honestly don't understand how these places stay in business. And yes, I used to do a significant amount of my grocery-shopping in Brooklyn and east Harlem, so I am familiar with the options available to those who live in the most squalid of urban slums.

I had a nutrition discussion with a friend who is a pediatric cardiologist. It doesn't seem possible to me that people could be so ignorant about which foods are good and which are bad. But this doc said she spends a tremendous amount of time explaining to parents of diet impaired kid's that their issues are partially diet related. Activity the other factor. Unfortunately the usual response is denial - and this is in the face of the parents having similar issues from the same diet.

When I was a kid in school we had regular field trips to the "food pyramid" - it may have not been a perfect pyramid but it was better than one at the circle K. And at home we ate our vegetables whether we liked them or not. Could education play such an important role in diet?

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The fact that "pediatric cardiologist" is a thing is troubling.

Not really. Lots of heart problems exist in kids other than obesity.

Sure it's troubling that that's what they are dealing with. But it's not a thing because of it.

I'd like to see a comparison of what people who aren't on SNAP are buying to those on SNAP. If it's the same, you can't blame the program. There's a reason this country is fat and unhealthy.

Also we're already subsidizing HFCS via corn subsidies.

Also I like farmers markets that honor SNAP and also discount for SNAP.

There are probably exceptions, but I don't think so. I was there because it was 1 AM on a Friday, and I needed milk for tomorrow's coffee and a beer to take the edge off the 5-hour drive I was finishing. Rural Maine is even sparser for shopping options than those places. Our would-be salad buyers were just off their 2nd-shift work, and that was the only food choice for 1/2 hour.