retiredcoder

Adding to the GP, in the context of the USA, US Border control officers can still deny the entry of a visa holder traveler based on whatever.

Also, members of visa waiver program can also be denied entry. That’s just like any one country.

I have seen the same stationary overlook on other fields and always blows my mind that people involve would get away with that.

So, I cannot speak how easy/hard is to collect debt abroad but I do know that it is possible for prospective employers to query the credit history.

I have recently applied for a job in the finance industry in Denmark, the institution did poke into my American financial life. That also happened when I worked for banks the UK and Wall Street.

She wouldn’t take the bill as far it is concerned legally (as far as I know and dealt with medical bills myself).

She might get mails and phone calls but the collection agency will not go after her assets, well unless her dad has assets in the USA.

The story lacks some details but if she contact the hospital and negotiate based on that, they would likely reduce the bill. Is this moral or not that’s another question, but I agree that she had few options before asking people for money early on. Specially when making 200k.

The problem to me looks here

> The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with the hospital or fight it with the insurance.

For me it sounds like she could have done more on her own to solve this problem before “socializing” the solution.

PS: Yes, healthcare is broken but at the end, she as a resident knows that and when someone comes to visit it is her responsibility to advise or buy a travelers insurance. It is not that expensive.

It is somewhat limiting the fact that in our industry, challenges related to social and human factors are either dismissed, denied, or taken under negative tone. Social sciences and political philosophy could really benefit how we treat ourselves daily, in my opinion. However, it seems that if it is not “technical” is dysfunctional.

PS: I am not saying that’s my take from your post, just something I observe in general. Heck, even I use the term political to signal dysfunctional work. :/

My time in college also taught me a lot on groups. It soon became clear that an A team is very volatile because of egos and motivators are hardly the same. Every time we had groups bigger than 2-3, there was drama and/or resentment. I wish I knew more about people and project management at that time but times were also different..

That happens a lot, specially in places selling healthy snacks.

I used to work for one of them at certain point and the secret sauce was mostly using tons sugar and/or salt to increase sales. Unless one puts a lot of effort (which can be quite expensive when running a business), healthy food doesn’t sell well.

And that’s reinforced by advertisement over and over again.

While there are so many fun activities not involving alcohol. Seems like most of team building events nowadays boils down to pretentious dinner plus drinking to celebrate?

Moderation and diversification seems to be a good hedge for a healthy portfolio.

That and also cooking more at home, be in contact with your food is a way to eat simpler and for me that is key.

I find that there is much more smoking (including indoor) and drinking in Denmark than most of any other place I lived, or maybe I am just older now and can’t the hangovers are much longer??

True, specially when management is much more invested financially in the company than rank and file engineers. That happens a lot in European startup scene from my observations (as equity comp here isn’t that appealing for most of ICs)

Mine: Being a tech lead with a lot of people management involved.

Changing jobs is very stressful for me. I have put up with a lot of BS to avoid that stress, can seem to get better but worse actually.

It can get worse, when the managers are the ones who wrote the legacy and still are actively acting as individual contributors themselves instead of empowering their own people