I don’t know, I’ve never worked within the health insurance industry. The company I worked for at the time was in manufacturing. They viewed profits being down as a “loss” in our internal reports. The easiest way to explain it is, for example, the reports given to investors and the IRS would say that they had a $2…

I’m also wondering if by “loss” they simply mean less than the year before. I worked for a company who would use the term “loss” for any profits that were below the previous year even though the company had made a very large profit when comparing their revenues to their expenses.

My first apartment in North Carolina had these. I was horrified and told the leasing manager and she said “Oh Honey, that’s just a little water bug, they ain’t gonna hurt you!” There is nothing little about these things, they are 3 inches long. They also are not afraid of people, if they see you, then they come at…

I remember when Penn was on the local news, I just wanted to punch his face in. They let him play a couple of his dorky videos before he went “viral”. It was the worst and that agent is the worst for being friends with Penn.

I thought that maybe they were trying to joke but it seemed kind of serious so I decided to err on the joke side

I have only had one experience with negotiations. We sat in a room all day that was away from the main negotiations. Occasionally the boss would come in and ask us to tweak the proposal, like add X or subtract Y or how much would it be to do ABC instead of XYZ. Each time we had to redo the figures and fix the charts…

My husband once found googley eyes at work and brought them home. He placed them on everything in the refrigerator. It was very strange waking up at 6am and everything looking at me

I’M SHOCKED!!!! All this time I thought that I was talking to THE Tina Belcher. I feel so betrayed

Yeah Meg!!! It’s not like anyone else uses an avatar around here or anything!!!! Just who are you Meg?!?!? I bet that’s not even your real name!!!!! The Internet people want to know!!!!

I’m an accountant so that probably colors the way I look at these things. I was thinking that they spent the day trying to hammer out some sort of agreement. Amber being there was more about negotiating position for her lawyers. I’m willing to bet that she wasn’t “ready, willing and able” to give the depo if the…

It's not technically being shut down, they are going to turn it into a co-ed lounge

This is what my university did. We had labs and study spaces specifically for the major you were in and it was monitored by a grad student as part of their work study money. I liked it a lot, the co-ed didn’t bother me and I think it helped that an “adult” was around.

I’d be ok with it if it wasn’t after every comment thread. I’ve clicked on 2 just trying to scroll up on my iPhone

Raccoons are my spirit animal

This is the only answer needed

Raccoons are wise creatures. Be Free

Well it’s winter time in Brazil, so mosquitos are at a minimum to none

My husband’s Chevy has 7 cup holders up front, 2 at the bottom of each door and 3 in the fold down center of the bench seat. I don't know why it has so many but we do use them for coffee and water bottles, also he has a hand sanitizer in one of them.

There might be something to the Google vs Trainer account theory. My 2 oldest kids have theirs hooked up through their gmail and never seem to have issues. The youngest had his through a trainer account (I didn’t think he was old enough for an email account) and he had a hard time logging on all the time. I finally…