“Projects don’t fall behind because of tools or materials; 90% of delays come from bad communication and people waiting on answers.”
“File a grievance! For the love of all things, when your insurance denies something, take the time and file a grievance.”
“You have to play their game. You filed an appeal that the payment was inadequate. They deny your appeal. So you file a second-level appeal. This is where they strengthen their argument or cave. Almost always, the denial is maintained. But now your next appeal is outside the organization, and you finally get to a number that insurance companies at least used to be afraid of, called upheld complaints per thousand (submitted). It’s only at this level that you’ll receive the review of your situation where someone didn’t have an incentive to deny your claim.”
“From the Coast Guard:
If you get swept out to sea or fall off your boat in the middle of the ocean, you had BETTER be wearing neon bright orange/yellow.
Believe it or not, we are in the helicopters and planes looking for you with our literal eyeballs. You are a tiny speck surrounded by the navy blue water – so you had better be a bright orange speck and not a navy blue speck.
One time we rescued someone who told us that we flew over him multiple times without seeing him before he remembered he had red board shorts on under his wetsuit.
He took those off and out and waved them at us. We saw the red and were able to get him.
Pointing + throwing trash/items overboard when someone falls in the ocean is good advice. The trash creates a larger visual landmark so we can follow the trail of debris towards the person in the water…”
“Expert craftsman still makes mistakes, they’re just way better at hiding them.”
“As a teacher for 8 years with a minor degree in Childhood & Adolescent Developmental Psychology…
Your child is most likely a completely different person when at school as compared to how they are at home. When they’re with you, they are “the son/daughter/little brother/ little sister, etc.” At school, they fit into a different social hierarchy and can be either more or less assertive/involved when they are among children their same age and given a little more autonomy.”
“Schedule doctors’ appointments or surgeries first thing in the morning or first after lunch…”
“If you are annoying enough, you can get your way. This shouldn’t work, but it does… The squeaky wheel gets the grease, unfortunately.”
“In banking, don’t be afraid to explicitly ask for a fee refund. As a bank employee, my employer does not want me to proactively offer fee refunds. But if you ask for it, I have to at least try to refund it.
If you do ask for it but are denied, know that that decision was likely made by a machine and request a manager to refund it. This works the first, maybe second time, but will eventually stop working if you make it a habit.”
“If you are hosting an event on the weekend, arrange for a press release to local broadcast media to arrive via email that morning. Barring a major news story breaking, newsrooms are usually looking for content on the weekends, and sometimes the bar is lower for what they will cover.
Send an earlier press release to the news director, but make sure one comes on Saturday (or even Sunday) morning if you’re having an event or want publicity for some reason. Just make sure it’s something visual, and mention in the email those aspects of the event.
I had about 99% success rate at getting at least one, if not all three of our local stations, at my weekend events for many years. I even managed to get two stations in a different state to cover my Mom’s Cubs-themed 90th birthday party one year, using this tactic!”
“Librarians love giving you free stuff, and you can often borrow way more kinds of things than you think. If you’re polite and the desk isn’t slammed, you can ask us damn near anything.
Even if we can’t find an answer, we’ll at the very least point you toward someone more likely to get you one. What we can do directly depends on the library (public or not, how well funded, specialized, etc), but we can get…creative.
Also, interlibrary loans. If your library doesn’t have a specific book, we can usually get it from another library at little to no cost to the patron. Or, worldcat.org will tell you which libraries have what, if you want to go get it yourself.”
“I work in a medical lab. The number of people who touch things they shouldn’t WITHOUT gloves would make you SICK. Senior employees, too.”
“I’m going to tell you to restart your computer 99% of the time, knowing that’ll resolve the issue.”
“I’ve worked in healthcare for 19 years. 17 were as first responders, the last two have been in finance. Listen to me very carefully.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY FULL PRICE FOR ANY MEDICAL SERVICES YOU RECEIVE, ESPECIALLY FOR EMERGENCY TREATMENT!
Every hospital, whether it openly advertises it or not, has a finance department that offers things like fee scaling, bill reduction, and bill itemization.
Before you open a care credit account and put your medical debt on a high interest credit card, before you put your balance on a payment plan with billing, before you do any of those wild things that will bury you even deeper into a pit, call your hospital, ask to speak to the finance dept, and ask for fee scaling or bill reduction.
They will probably ask you for documents like ID, proof of address and proof of income. But as long as you can prove your household income below a certain threshold (typically <500% Federal Poverty Level), you are eligible for some level of financial assistance. The amount will vary based on where you fall on that scale of the FPL, but if your income is low enough or you can prove you’re in a state of deep financial hardship, you have a high possibility of getting your bill reduced significantly, if not completely cleared.”
“So I’m a medic. I don’t personally care if you took drugs to have a good time. As long as you are safe while doing so, then that’s fantastic. I just want to know the amount and what kind. This is so that if something goes sideways, then I can try to fix it.”
“I tell my teenager all the time, ‘tell the cops nothing, tell the paramedics everything.”
“Marketing Communications professional insight:
Everything, and I mean everything, you see online related to products or services and reviews and comparisons and “best of” or “gift guide” lists is pay-to-play.
Every article in Wire Cutter, Forbes, etc. and even smaller publications like Food & Wine or Mind Body Green was paid for or curated by the marketing team for that product/service. Every IG reel, TikTok, or YouTube video review of the product/service was preceded by a contract negotiation between the influencer and the company being promoted, as well as several rounds of edits from the marketing team.
It’s all bullsh#t. Trust nothing that you read or see about a product. The only reliable info is real-world experience from people you actually know. Other than word of mouth, you’re just being fed the exact info the corporate overlords want you to see.”
“Book your hotel room directly through the hotel, not a third-party website.”
“In every project, regardless of size, there are always 1-3 people who actually know what’s going on and do 95% of the work.”
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