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I'll need to dig up a source but I recently heard about this company and, apparently, before offering gigs they do a credit report to determine how much debt the person is carrying (i.e. how desperate they are) and they use that information to _round down_ the hourly rate they offer them. In the unlikely event that there are any negative consequences for this breach, they deserve every bit of them and more.
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That seems like a terrible way to estimate nurse wages. People have spouses. People’s parents pay credit cards. People with bad credit sometimes don’t care. People have family money. People with low debt can be desperate for work. Does it even work?
At scale, the corner cases don't really matter. In aggregate, if it's decently well correlated and readily available, it's probably going to be used. I can't find it now, but I believe LexisNexis or another large similar reporting/data agency had a product catalog of dozens of products that spit out values for ability to pay, disposable income monthly, annual income, etc. It makes you feel awful thinking about the di…
Most people I know with bad credit aren’t desperate for money. At least not educated, highly paid ones like nurses.
Most just ignore their financial problems in the hope they go away.
Not to mention nurse demand outstrips supply, so they have options and can certainly turn down bad offers.
It is really unfair, the way capitalism treats nurses (and police officers, school teachers). Without them, the entire system wouldn't even exist. Capitalism may sound like a great idea at first, but in the end you have a few rich bastards milking the rest.
In the USA it is not that easy to achieve, as, historically, it is not a single country but a union of "states" that is countries, so the main boss should not interfere too much with local bosses and force on them particular "federal" laws.
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Names. We need names.
We don't need names, we need legislature, and we need to vote for people who will write it, as opposed to grifters who only seek to pad the pockets of billionaires. These predators aren't scared of name and shame. Any publicity is good publicity (And if it actually gets bad, they'll sue the pants off you.). They are scared shitless of laws censuring their behavior. It's why they fight like mad to ensure that they are…
There are exceptions. See the ongoing kerfuffle over "DOGE" employee lists.
It is really unfair, the way capitalism treats nurses (and police officers, school teachers). Without them, the entire system wouldn't even exist. Capitalism may sound like a great idea at first, but in the end you have a few rich bastards milking the rest.
It has nothing to do with capitalism. You can have capitalism and society that is aware that having good public services pays-off, as overall spending on schools, security, etc. will be smaller if done at the whole country level. In the USA it is not that easy to achieve, as, historically, it is not a single country but a union of "states" that is countries, so the main boss should not interfere too much with local b…
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I don't remember the source, but I believe I listened to a podcast on an "uber for nurses" (not sure if it was this place), but they do all sorts of nasty things that really shaft the nurses. ISTR that the nurses when they get called in, have to be running a phone app that tracks them, and if they get stuck in traffic or lose cell signal, they get demerits. They pretty much do anything they can to give the nurses a d…
Isn't this exactly what you'd expect from an Uber for (somethign)? Garbage company, garbage culture, garbage business model.
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This is abhorrent if true; truly evil behavior.
What's interesting is that broadly speaking, people acknowledge that negotiating with asymmetric information is immortal or wrong. Take the stock market for example, insider trading is illegal and you don't often hear calls to reverse these laws. But when it comes to private markets and semi-private negotiations that same sentiment doesn't easily transfer. Does society benefit in some unique way for allowing asymmetr…
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> Also just as a side note, HIPAA is not a ideal standard to begin with for security. Many large companies exchange bulk PHI via gmail since it is HIPAA compliant. You seem to imply using GMail is a bad thing? I think GMail, when appropriately configured to handle PHI, is probably a million times more secure than some crappy bespoke "enterprise" app.
It isn't that hard to setup a secure SFTP server to automate the exchange. But then again this is a post about configuring a S3 Bucket with public access for SSNs. The issue with Gmail is sending to the wrong email, sending to a broad email list, having people download it to their local machines. And the amount of PHI being transmitted in these files is larger than this s3 bucket.
When you've got a trickle of information coming and going from hundreds or thousands of other individuals working at tens or hundreds of other entities it is.
You'd eventually wind up developing the kind of ridiculous "secure messaging and file drop" type service that every megabank builds on top of their SFTP and ticketing systems for that purpose. That stuff ain't cheap to run and keep running.
Better to just start with a solution that's 99% there.
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This is abhorrent if true; truly evil behavior.
What's interesting is that broadly speaking, people acknowledge that negotiating with asymmetric information is immortal or wrong. Take the stock market for example, insider trading is illegal and you don't often hear calls to reverse these laws. But when it comes to private markets and semi-private negotiations that same sentiment doesn't easily transfer. Does society benefit in some unique way for allowing asymmetr…
I don't think that's true at all. Companies and individuals negotiate all the time with information the other party doesn't have. Insider trading is about fairness on public markets so every negotiating party of the same type has the same information, and is quite specific to that.
Why does this keep happening? It seems like every month there's a new leak from an open S3 bucket?
Not saying it is right, it's just what happens.