Goober got canned last Friday

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:10 am

My brilliant knack of deductive reasoning says that it must be true. A quick search shows that he hasn't posted since last Thursday. Most layoffs aka "restructurings" happen on a Friday. Goobs was primarily a Mon-Fri, 9-5 poster. His wife won't let him post at home, she's got him too busy slaving over the stove making tuna noodle casseroles and whatsuch.

So I can see how it went down. Goobs strolled into the office last Friday morning all ready to fire up his desktop, log onto T1B, and start in on his daily ritual of assorted ankle gummings, kissing asses, etc. You know, the normal routine he'd become quite comfortable with.

But this day was different. When he arrived at his 6' x 9' cubicle, the boss and that new IT geek were standing there with frowns on their faces:

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Goobs: (smiling sunnily) Good morning, Boss!

Boss: Yeah. Goobs, have you met Jake, the new IT manager?

Goobs: (smile fading) Nooo... (wipes sweaty palms on trousers) What's up?

Boss: We've been monitoring all of our employees internet activities for unauthorized and inappropriate use. Seems you've been a busy boy.

Goobs: (smile gone) Who, me? Heh, heh... I barely use it.

Boss: Goobs, we've found this one message board where you've logged over 3700 posts over a two year span.

Goobs: Wha... Who... Where... oh, you mean T1B? But boss, that's nothing. Just harmless fun because I'm so bor.... err, otherwise so productive around here the rest of the day. I always take care of my job 1st. Don't you remember, just last week I brought you some coffee, 3 sugars, 1 cream, just the way you like it!

Boss: Yes Goobs, I remember the coffee. It was stale, and it's 5 sugars, 2 creams you dolt! But aside from that, you got the memo last month about how we were going to crack down on this.

Goobs: I thought you were kidding!

Boss: We weren't. Here's a box. Pack your shit, and for the sake of all that's holy, don't forget that picture of your fat-ass wife at the pool when you were on vacation last year. Have yourself off these premises in less than 1 hour, or Security will escort you. We'll mail your final check.

Goobs: Fucking 'tard!

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Actually, I hope none of the above is true and dude really is on vacation.

Come back, Goobs! I had grown kinda' used to you being around.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:33 am

college dude on spring break ??

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:35 am

Goobs prolly has a kid on spring break, intent on terrorizing your dumpater.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:50 am

^^

I laughed !
really do not know how old "Goobs" is--
sometimes I guess it is best left unknown !

PS--that dumpater is long gone, but I keep looking for
it when I see one at a building/construction site !

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:25 am

goobs is older than the gingivitus on irie's meth-tainted grill.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:44 pm

Nice to see that I’m still forever on Whitey Wagon’s little mind. A thread in my honor. How sweet.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:54 pm

Welcome home, Goobs!

Re-hab treat you well?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:57 pm

Rotator cuff surgery. Rehab starts on Wednesday.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:03 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:Rotator cuff surgery. Rehab starts on Wednesday.

Good luck man. Where's a good place to ask some serious questions about that ?

I tore my pectoralis major a few years back and everything on the right side is all out of kilter. I'm hating life when I lift and sometimes even when I do dips or pushups. It's like I need a constant massage at the point of injury, up to where my bicep tendon "inserts", my rear delts, and back on the inner portion of my scapula.

It's like I want somebody to go in and scrape whatever scar tissue is there away ... or something, sometimes it hits me when I'm doing something simple and it sucks.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:21 pm

Tom In VA wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:Rotator cuff surgery. Rehab starts on Wednesday.
Good luck man. Where's a good place to ask some serious questions about that ?

Well, I went to see a doctor, but that’s just me. You might just want to ask around in here.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:23 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:Rotator cuff surgery. Rehab starts on Wednesday.

Lost a little off the ol' fastball, I take it.

Good luck with that.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:32 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Tom In VA wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:Rotator cuff surgery. Rehab starts on Wednesday.
Good luck man. Where's a good place to ask some serious questions about that ?

Well, I went to see a doctor, but that’s just me. You might just want to ask around in here.

Thanks. I don't suppose you were bored one day and said "Hey, I'm going to make an appointment to see how my rotator cuff is doing. Not having any problems but you know I make sure I won't have any problems".

Know what I mean ?

What kind of "dysfunction" were you experiencing and where in the shoulder area ? If you don't want to have a discussion about it, that's cool.

Either way. Take care and good luck.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:01 pm

I had pain. They did an MRI which seemed to point to a possible tear. Taking a conservative approach, they tried physical therapy. When that not only failed to improve the situation, but seemed to aggravate it a bit, they suggested shoulder arthroscopy.

Going in the surgeon figured to do some cleanup, put me in a sling for a couple of days, and immediately start aggressive rehab. Once he got in there, he found a tear in the cuff, spent an hour repairing it, and I’m in the sling for three weeks. With a much slower rehab process.

If you have the issues you describe, you should see a specialist.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:06 pm

I have a physical this Friday. It's been a nagging thing and each time I've been given the standard PT exercises. I've done them.

Cool. I think this time I'm just going to be a little more assertive with the doc.

Thanks Goobs.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:15 pm

Good thinking, Tom. At times you do need to be assertive with those people.

And enjoy that guy’s finger up your ass.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:36 pm

Friend of mine just went thru the same thing. Doc said he could have torn it by sleeping with his arm extended straight out, using it as a pillow.

I've probably got something like that going on in my left shoulder, but I've just been ignoring it since I decided to forego spring training this year.

It used to be worse, but it has improved over the last few months. I just can't throw stuff at people anymore with the left without feeling some pain.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:39 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:Friend of mine just went thru the same thing. Doc said he could have torn it by sleeping with his arm extended straight out, using it as a pillow.

That's how I sleep.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:56 pm

Goober McTuber wrote: And enjoy that guy’s finger up your ass.

Tom In VA wrote:
Mister Bushice wrote:Friend of mine just went thru the same thing. Doc said he could have torn it by sleeping with his arm extended straight out, using it as a pillow.

That's how I sleep.

Once again, you have to careful to use the quote feature properly. You wind up appearing to respond to the wrong post. Dog out front should have told you.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:03 pm

lol'r

Dude you fucking ROCK man. That was HUGE. That was some funny ass shit right there. I'm glad you're back.

RACK 'IM

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:02 pm

Tom In VA wrote:
Mister Bushice wrote:Friend of mine just went thru the same thing. Doc said he could have torn it by sleeping with his arm extended straight out, using it as a pillow.

That's how I sleep.

That's what I used to do too, but no more, I just forced myself to stop when he told me that. I was getting shooting pains running down my arm from the shoulder, and I couldn't reach straight up. Raised hell with my play action passes, too.

So I stopped the arm as pillow sleeping technique, and bought a posturepedic bed. Awesome bed. Since then the shoulder has improved a lot. Still can't hit the deep routes, though.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:14 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:Rotator cuff surgery. Rehab starts on Wednesday.

What causes all this diet ? Or genetics ?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:18 pm

I'd say one of his deck screws came loose.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:49 pm

Tom In VA wrote:I have a physical this Friday. It's been a nagging thing and each time I've been given the standard PT exercises. I've done them.

Cool. I think this time I'm just going to be a little more assertive with the doc.

Thanks Goobs.

Just to let you all know from someone who works in the industry... They send you to physical therapy (unless you have a bone sticking through skin or some such) for two reasons:

1. They're hoping, praying and pleading that you'll end up saying, "Fuck it...it's just not worth it and they'll never approve me to see a specialist in the first place." While they'd prefer not to send you to a specialist, if you've got a serious problem, they don't have a choice. The physical therapy is mostly just a weeding-out process to make sure that only those with serious conditions end up in the expensive doctor's office. They also do this to push back surgeries so that they don't have a bunch of them all at once and take too big of a profit hit. Lots of insurance companies play this same game: They'll deny your claim not because you're not entitled to it, but because they've already paid too many claims this quarter and don't want to post shitty numbers to wall street.

2. There's the off chance that the physical therapy could do you some good and it's far cheaper than sending you to a specialist who is sure to order MRIs with contrast materials, CT scans and who knows what else, all of which will cost thousands of dollars. PT costs a couple of Andrew Jacksons.

Anyway, if you have a serious problem, don't get pissed off when they recommend physical therapy. They aren't fucking you...well, they are...but they're not treating you any different than they treat their own employees and other customers.

The only time I've ever been able to circumvent this process was during two surgeries I had in the past five years when I knew the referral coordinator personally and she referred me directly to a specialist by stating on the referral that I had already completed the physical therapy.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:23 am

Or you could switch from an HMO to a PPO.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:29 am

Both plans have their positive and negative aspects.

For instance, I used to be on HMO and paid $15 for office visits, $10 for generic drugs, $25 for formulary drugs and $35 for non-formulary drugs. Now on a PPO, I pay $25 for office visits, $10 for generic drugs, $15 for formulary drugs and $25 for non-formulary drugs.

All plans are designed to essentially make the exact same amount of money as any other, they just divvy up the copays in different ways to make certain plans more attractive to certain people. PPOs are virtually identical in this aspect.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:38 am

You're correct, to a certain degree, but all plans do not really work out the same. It matters also how much your employer wants to kick in, or not.

In January I went from a PPO where I had to pay, I think, about $250 a month for my part of the coverage. The copays were only $10.00 and the 90 prescriptions were $10, $20 and $30 depending on the formulary. Also, dental and vision coverage were included.

I now have a $25.00 copay, the drugs are more expensive and the vision and dental are not included. Sucks, right? Thing is, I pay no premium and my company pre-funds a flexible medical savings account with $3,000 to cover the out of pocket expenses. I'm not sure which one is better - it depends on how many copays, etc. I have to pay for, but I don't have to go through the HMO screening process, I can choose any doctor I want to, and my dentist loves not having to bill the insurance company.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:51 am

Mikey wrote:You're correct, to a certain degree, but all plans do not really work out the same. It matters also how much your employer wants to kick in, or not.

You're missing the point. The point being, THEY (The HMOs, PPOs) all make their money one way or another with every plan.

For instance, my last company switched plans on Jan 1st of 2005 to one that had $0.00 copay for outpatient surgery. Normally these copays range from about $150-$250. This was out-fucking-standing for me, as I had my left knee and right ankle operated on during '05 and '06. However, my office copays went up by $5 and I paid the higher drug prices that I mentioned before. While it was nice to not have the surgery copays, they made up their money on all of my doctor's visits and medications.

Personally, I prefer a PPO plan, as HMOs, while generally cheaper, are a gigantic mess of red tape and paperwork and quality care seems to be the lowest priority.