25 FEMA Alert Memes to Help You Recover from Your Alarm-Induced Panic

Did you catch that FEMA alert on October 4th? If you did, you were probably one of the many folks left scratching their heads, wondering if it was a real emergency or just someone’s idea of a prank. Maybe even a conspiracy, who knows? Well, surprise! Now that we’ve recovered from that piercing sound that …
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‘The in-network option is a helicopter and I live 3 miles by the road from the hospital’: Person Stands Up to Unreasonable Insurance Company By Suggesting a Bill for an Emergency Helicopter Ride

It’s difficult to imagine something more insidious, unreasonable, and unhelpful than American health insurance services. If you’re an American, I don’t need to remind you. For those of you who live anywhere else, it is so much worse than what you’re assuming. In my experience, my first response to any illness or injury is to …
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Nosy Boss Bombards Employee’s Wife With Texts Demanding She Explains Why He Called Out For a Family Emergency

Emergency contacts exist for a reason. If your employee is having a medical emergency at work, you need to tell their family or close friends if they had to go to the hospital. While this system is useful in the contexts it’s supposed to be used, it is extremely easy to abuse for absurd reasons.  …
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Firefighter Memes For Firefighters, Volunteer or Otherwise

When you’re a kid, you’re presented with very few jobs that you could pursue in the future. Everyone wants to be a doctor, spaceman, or cop, but all of these occupations pale in comparison to being a firefighter. Gun to my head, if I had to choose one of the «babies first dream job» jobs, …
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CEO Shames Pregnant Employee For Going to the Emergency Room

Nobody wants to have a medical emergency, yet sometimes we get shamed or scolded when we do. It’s common for people, especially women, to be accused of faking or exaggerating symptoms. Why? Who knows. Usually, the accusation goes that a woman in severe pain is trying to get drugs, attention, or both. It is incredibly …
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Redditor Shuts Down Former Workplace Trying To Keep Them As Emergency Contact

No matter how crappy and soul destroying we may find a job, we can always sustain ourselves on the fantasy that we’ll be able to leave one day. Nothing motivates like the idea of greener grass on the horizon, even if the reality is that we’re just moving to a slightly different job title that …
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