Something I forgot to mention when I told you about my trip to Doctor Vaezi’s office :
I mentioned that the magical talisman of good drug Triesence that Doctor Vaezi wanted to inject into my poor widdle eyeball costs $50.
Well when I went to pay. the main receptionist told me to sit and wait for a bit while she checked something. So I sat there for a bit with my $50 bill in my hand.
Then, to my surprise, she told me Doctor Vaezi said I didn’t have to pay.
Well that was very nice of him! I very much appreciate this kind mercy.
The Triesence still hurt going in, despite Doctor Vaezi doing everything he did the first time he gave me a shot and I felt nothing.
Dunno what to make of that. My eye was definitely numb. I could feel it. And when the last set of drops were applied I could barely feel them.
Yet it still felt like getting poked in the eye with a needle when it happened. Either he is sticking the needle in deeper than the numbing agent can reach or I am somehow resistant to the stuff in a really terrible way.
Probably the former. I will gently suggest a gentler touch if he ever has to stick a needle in my eye ever again.
Because it really freaking hurt.
But it definitely seems to be working. The inside of my eye feels very cool and calm, which makes sense given that the drug is a powerful steroidal anti-inflammatory.
That’s the problem the doctor and I are trying to solve. Persistent swelling in my left eye. It is what is throwing off my vision the most.
Once that’s solved, I suspect I will still need a new pair of glasses, which I will be paying for out of pocket.
Le sigh. Oh well, that’s what savings are for : unplanned expenses.
But this time, I will definitely be shopping around for somewhere way cheaper than the place I went last time, IRIS.
Turns out they are the priciest place around. Fuck. Lesson learned.
Next time I will get my prescription and shop it around to see who can hook me up with a nice pair of cheap, functional glasses.
Maybe even get them online from one of those new glasses mills in the US.
What a brave new world that has such businesses in it!
Still out of plotlines in Fallout ’76.
So right now, I am mostly just dicking around. Exploring the map. doing Events, tweaking my character, and so on.
There are things I could be doing, like the final heist, or getting a nuclear code and launching a nuke.
Both are the sort of things that take a long time to complete and progress can’t be saved in them. Which makes completing them an endurance test.
And mine ain’t great. Heart problems an all.
The nuclear code one is especially insane because it forces me to actually solve a complex cipher. And while the steps in doing so are not too hard, it’s stll a heck of a lot of skullduggery for a non-cryptographer like myself.
Still, I am not giving up yet. I will get these things done.
I just need a nap first.
More after the break.
The hand in your pocket
….wears a diamond ring.
There is an absolutely beautiful, wonderful, magical phrase making the rounds these days. One so perfect I jealously wish I had coined it myself.
The phrase is “wage theft”. It refers to all ways in which employers try to screw their employees out of the money the employees earned fair and square.
And the reason I love it so much is that it cut through and destroys any obfuscating opaqueness that employers and their flying monkeys try to hide behind and states the bare truth of the matter.
This is not some obscure accounting language or a fit of legalese. It’s not a matter of a quibble over some deadly dull detail of payroll administration. It’s not some high speed shell game you have to have an MBA and a doctorate in mathematics to follow.
It’s employers stealing money from their employees, and anyone can understand that.
The fact that they often do it before they give said money to the employee doesn’t make one bit of difference.
Theft is theft. That money belongs to the employee(s) who earned it. It is not some gift the employer generously decided to give their employees and therefore it is not up to them whether or not the employer wants to pay it.
And to try to deny that money to your employees is theft, plain and simple.
Damn would I make a great union rep.
Let’s examine the words. First, “wages” are inherently earned. It’s baked right into the very definition of the word. If you didn’t earn it, it’s not wages, it’s something else.
So right away, we have destroyed a lot of employer’s wiggle room. This isn’t about a salary or a bonus or a generic “payment”, this is about paying the price you agreed upon for the labour you definitely got, otherwise known as “wages”.
And then there’s “theft”. No wiggle room there either. Theft is inherently wrong, You motherfuckers are trying to steal wages and we’re calling you out on that.
You have your hands in your employees pockets and are trying to get away with getting something without paying for it.
Sounds like wage theft to me.
No wonder these assholes are always trying to convince you that it’s the government that is picking your pocket.
They want you nice and distracted while they pick YOURS.
And all to benefit people who already have more money than they can ever spend, an way more than anyone could ever need.
Well to hell with them. Stop the stealing and demand that your elected representatives get tough on these criminals and show them that they can’t steal what is literally their employee’s hard earned money without facing the consequences.
Demand that your representatives represent you, and not them.
Take back your god damned money.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.