VGSchadenfreude

VGSchadenfreude t1_j8lofip wrote

Reply to Was Western Washington’s infrastructure the reason the Nisqually quake had no direct fatalities? by yungcarwashy

Probably. We’re surrounded by fault lines and massive volcanoes, so we’ve always known that a disastrous quake or eruption is not an “if.”

It’s a “when.”

And that allows us to plan ahead and continuously improve our infrastructure.

That’s why, for example, despite the years of bickering over how to replace the Viaduct, the city still made sure to at least repair the Elliott Bay Sea Wall. That project was part of the same infrastructure package, but while the Viaduct replacement got bogged down, the Sea Wall forced ahead because that was the more important of the two.

We could live without the Viaduct if we had to.

But the Elliott Bay Sea Wall is the main thing stopping half of downtown Seattle from liquifying and sliding right into Puget Sound during the next quake.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j79x8zp wrote

Reply to Washington Unemployment Website login? by Shonnathan

Happened all the time to me. I would just grudgingly enter everything in again, and after about two attempts it would finally let me through.

No idea why their damn login page is always so horribly buggy.

Oh, and the EBT page is even worse! I still haven’t been able to get anyone to help me with password recovery because they just keep referring me back to the same page that refuses to allow me to change my password, rejects all new passwords as “already used earlier” (when they are literally randomly generated and it’s therefore impossible for me to have already used them), and then locks me out permanently.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j5x00w7 wrote

Reply to comment by domestication_never in Washington state might nix-single family zoning by magenta_placenta

I just wish people would keep in mind that a diverse range of options need to be available. Not just vertical, overpriced townhomes. We need townhomes, apartments, condos, 5-over-1s, etc.

I’ve been outright told in other subreddits that disabled people who can’t use stairs are basically expendable and should be forced out into the suburbs where they have no transportation and no access to any of the services they need, just because it’s “too much effort” to build high-density housing that is also ADA-compliant or at least doesn’t having living spaces separated by stairs.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j49kav0 wrote

Reply to Ranting about house prices by AllMightoh

I don’t know, but I’m stressing over the same thing. I honestly don’t feel ready for home-ownership yet, but I have a disabled parent who can’t afford any housing in the state at all without sacrificing her remaining health and other needs in the process.

And the odds of us finding a rental that’s accessible for her and doesn’t force either of us to give up our pets, while also providing enough space so we don’t drive each other insane, is slim to none.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j3pextf wrote

Reply to Community colleges in Washington by ConsciousRelative968

Lake Washington Institute of Technology was pretty good. I liked that their 2-year accounting program didn’t completely segregate those trying to enter the workforce and those planning to transfer to a 4-year school.

Most community colleges in the Seattle area that I tried split the accounting classes very strictly, between “here’s the bare basics necessary to get shit done” versus “here’s what you need to know to understand it at a managerial or higher level.” You could only take one set of classes; if you were pursuing a technical degree, you were blocked from the second set of classes.

LWIT just had us do both for the A.A.S. degree.

Oh, and that degree is applied science rather than arts, which is nice.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j26b924 wrote

Reply to Why are homes in the Seattle/Bellevue area so expensive? by [deleted]

Mix of things: supply and demand play a part, but so do the ways in which corporations deliberately interfere with that.

Companies have been buying up every bit of spare housing they can, with the explicit (in their own words) intent of renting them out at exhorbitant rates. Most of those rentals aren’t even residential; they’re being marketed as AirBnBs and Vrbos.

There’s also been issues with the recent admission that rental companies have been relying on an algorithm to determine what rents to charge, regardless of other factors. End result is that placed that are clearly not worth that sort of money are still charging twice as much as they’re worth and because everyone is charging the same rates, people have no choice but to find a way to pay them. Which, in turn, skews the supply and demand numbers even further.

It’s a complex issue.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j2696oo wrote

Reply to Any WA state pharmacists or doctors able to answer a question on refills for controlled substances at a pharmacy? I'm just baffled now on why certain hoops need monthly jumping, and if it is corporate policy, state law, or Federal law. This is CVS and Swedish. by Seattle_Is_Wet

I’ve had similar issues with my own ADHD meds. It’s frustrating, as I just had an issue caused by the holiday mess, meaning I was likely to run out before I could see my doctor again. He tried to prescribe two months worth at once, but the pharmacy wasn’t allowed to process it as such. Thankfully I was able to email him and he mentioned having some computer trouble at his end when he tried to update it to two separate monthly prescriptions…

I’ve also had issues with pharmacies running out of my medication and invalidating the entire prescription if they can only give me a partial amount, forcing me to go through the extra expense of going back to the doctor for an entirely new prescription after only a week or so. Which the insurance company might also reject for “attempting to refill too early.”

I’ve had slightly better luck with Hagen Pharmacy in Woodinville. They’re much more open and honest, and willing to help me work through any hurdles. They know I’ve been on the exact same medication for almost ten years and aren’t too worried that I might be “abusing it.” They also usually have it in stock, much more reliably than other pharmacies, and if they do run out they’re willing to fill what they can and add a note to my file to only fill the remaining amount instead of just invalidating the entire prescription.

Unfortunately, unless these medications are removed from the controlled substance lists, we’re unlikely to see any changes. We’re just stuck, even though it means being treated like a criminal because our brains don’t produce certain chemicals the same way others do.

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VGSchadenfreude t1_j1t8sk1 wrote

Reply to comment by sweet_n_salty in 4th Washington state electrical substation vandalized by Teanaway99

As a low-level “bean counter,” I feel you! Lost my last job because the CEO decided I was “too pushy about getting stuff turned in on time.”

I was the only AP person for both sides of the company. I was trying to not only make sure their bills got paid on time, but also cleaning up the mess their ridiculously high turnover had caused. It was literally my job to be pushy about paying things on time!

They fired me by phone the day before my replacement started. I had zero warning that they were even considering getting rid of me.

But joke’s on them! They caught me right in the middle of a massive overhaul of their AP filing system (four years of electronic AND paper files), and gave me no time to wrap things up, so that whole area is a fucking mess.

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