Corporate scandals

Posted By: MTness on 2008-02-11
In Reply to: anhybody here remember enron?....sm - cat

What gets me about these scoundrels is their lack of ethics, and the insult to the pubic when Ken Lay spoke of being a Christian - pleeeze!!! A psychiatrist explained that it is really not about the money with these pigs, it's about control - they have plenty of money, but they have a deep sickness to control, to feel control.

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Poll. The Nebraska high court decided that the electric chair is inhumane. What do you think? nm - Former Nebraskan
- anhybody here remember enron?....sm - cat
  - Corporate scandals - MTness
- Like Iran, maybe we should go to stoning. - nm
  - Enough people in US already stoned. - nn
- I think the guilotine is the most humane to the criminal - but not to the ones carrying out the execution s/m
- Go back to the firing squad - Did I say that?
  - China uses firing squads regularly... - if you light up any illegal substance, DEAD!!..nm
  - right; effective, quick, cheap method; have always believed this; always will - - NM
  - We should use them as test subjects for medication and - cosmetics instead of cats an bunnies
    - Amen! - ginny
    - sounds like a good idea to me! nm - ks
- I agree - sm
- As a civilized society, life in prison without parole - is best punishment.
  - costs $30-$40,000 per year to house each - inmate in America......WE pay that...s/m
    - Jails are overflowing because of insane drug laws. - Those need changing.
      - totally agree w/you & NORML comes to mind... - inmate in America......WE pay that...n/m
  - They didn't bother to ask their victim if they'd wanted to live...sm - Georgia Gal
  - so, you think we should reward them by paying for their bed, heat, water, food? - no- NM
    - Does life in prison sound good to you? I would - rather die.
      - Free medical and dental, someone to cook, do - laundry, free education and a
        girlfriend named Shirley. What's not to like? - nm
        oh, wait.... - where do I sign up? (nm)
  - Who said we're civilized? - They're not; why should we be?
    - So why has most of the rest of world abolished - capital punishment?
      - It's all about politics (nm) - Are you kidding?
  - For who? The taxpayers that have to support them? - anon
  - Besides many times life in jail is short anyway - MT2
  - torn - jlynn

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So corporate cheating is fine

You said - However, it does NOT justify lying, cheating, stealing insurance dollars and benefits just because you don't like it.

What do you call it when someone pays their premiums for years, they are told they are covered, then the insurance company decides they don't have to pay? Sounds like what you just described above. But it happens every day, and its supposedly OK, because its business, I used to do medical billing, outrageous how many claims were denied because the ordering physician didn't do a precert, the insurance company decided it was unneccessary, or some other little loophole. The providers didn't get paid, the patient ended up in collections,,,and IMO the patient was lied to, stolen from, and cheated out of his insurance dollars and benefits.

BTW, I do make my own money. I'm just not too pleased at handing large chunks of it to an insurance company, knowing they will diligently seek reasons to deny a claim, even if I play by all their ever changing rules and memorize my policy. And that includes the entire insurance industry, be it medical, LTD, life, auto, or homeowners insurance.

Wal-Mart corporate policy states....sm
that if you ask the person at the kiosk overseeing the self-check out lines to check you out they have to. Wal-Mart has gotten a bad reputation for not hiring people and then claiming their lack of check out lines being manned by humans is due to not having enough staff. Bull crap - if you pay well you can get good employees. I NEVER check myself out and provide free labor. I rarely go there but when I do, if there's more than 4 people in line ahead of me then I go to the self-check out lines and have the person overseeing them check them out. A couple of times they gave me flack about it and I requested the store manager be called... and then the store manager made them ring me up because the manager knew it was corporate policy.

My husband has asked the manager why they even have 20 checkout lines when he's never seen more than 2 cashiers working at any time of the day. Good question I say!

Call the corporate office, can be found easily enough on internet....
I've done it a few times with McDonalds. Got tired of getting halfway home and realizing something I paid for was missing, again!