When I worked for a huge national health insurance firm (I've actually worked for three of them), I would always make sure that I took off my nametag and/or my ID badge when I left work. The few times that I forgot and stopped in a grocery store, etc., on my way home, I always got waylaid by someone who wanted to know WHY THEIR PRESCRIPTION WAS DENIED!!! or WHY THEIR BROTHER-IN-LAW'S SURGERY WASN'T APPROVED!!! or....well, you get the picture. I would have loved to help them but #1, I didn't have that info and #2, even if I DID have that info, I certainly couldn't discuss it in a grocery store aisle. I'd always give them a phone number and name to call for help....tomorrow..... We also handled worker's comp claims at our office, too. You can imagine the volatility of that group when they were denied or benefits were running out. It can be dangerous working for an insurance company.
My brother also worked for an insurance company for 25 years. He had some very irate people get in his face and holler at him all the way to his car, and he was a big muscular guy. People forget that they are just employees. They don't make the rules. He too, would give customers a phone number to call because it was out of his control. I think it's like all big companies. They let the employees take all the flak from customers while they sit up in their ivory tower unreachable; contemplating how they are going to get their next big raise or bonus for saving the Co. money. I don't think anyone is real happy with any kind of insurance companies. I know I'm not.
Insurance companies are the greedy scum of the earth. They destroy lives for profit. I have friends who are victims. This was no surprise to me; I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Also no surprise is the lack of sympathy for the victim. By leaving messages on the brass casings, the shooter wanted the message and motive to be clear. And, no - I'm not saying the victim deserved to be executed.
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Seems like there are "conflicting" pictures of the shooter that have been released so I'm skeptical of the photos. In one, the guy has a beige-colored backpack and in another it's black so WTF. One thing that bothers me about this whole thing is, a man has been brutally murdered but people on the internet are so callous. I don't know anything about the man, but I find it distasteful that people are joking and having tasteless t-shirts made with images of his murder. Just disgusting. Sometimes I just feel like I don't care to participate in this world much longer; I don't fit in here anymore.
I do understand what you're saying, I think many of us feel this way, but then guess we have a part to play, just not sure. I think it's ' Them Changes' we detest so much.
That's exactly it, Marie. The world is changing and not for the better. I'm sure every generation has said the same thing, but "I never thought I'd see the day!"
Although the generations before us never had such a drastic change as we do today. They didn't all of a sudden in just a few decades wake up to so much 'change'. But I better get off this subject before I have us both in the loony bin. Those damn vines have had it tomorrow!
A suspect has been arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania in the assassination of the insurance CEO. He was a very smart ultra Leftist who graduated form an ivy League school. He suffered form back pain and I guess the insurance company refused his claims. He was smart, but he 1) still had the gun and the suppressor, 2) still had the fake IDs he used and the fake NJ drivers license he used in the crime, and 3) he carried a manifesto-type document about the bad insurance companies. He apparently thought he was smarter than the cops (a common problem with crooks who think they are smart), but he was picked out by a McDonald's employee who saw him in the restaurant, called 911, and said he/she thought the guy in the pictures online was in the restaurant. Cops responded, found the evidence, and called the FBI.
Meanwhile, assholes on Reddit are demonizing the poor McDonald's employee for being "a snitch." What on earth is wrong with people?
Law enforcement is calling the person a hero for calling it in. Only the "Liberals" want people killed...as long as it isn't them or those they care about. Perhaps those who like people getting killed should be sent to Ukraine where they can see more of it.
This is a really strange thing from beginning to end, in my opinion. The first pictures they showed us did not look like the same person or the same clothes in the pictures with and without the mask. We were told he escaped on a city bike and it was tracked, and then told it was not a city bike after all. The backpack was shown in some pictures as dark with black straps and in others as a light grey. It was found in a park and had Monopoly money in it. Then, he shows up days later, at a McDonalds in another town, but wearing the same outfit, carrying the gun and fake ID and just goes into the store and sits down like he was waiting to be arrested with all the evidence and a manifesto. Why would he do this ? The pictures show a well-educated person, healthy (does NOT look like he eats burgers and fries at McDonalds !), and he comes from an extremely wealthy family. People were talking about how rich the CEO was, but the suspected shooter is even wealthier. I am not sure that the pictures from the shooting even look like the same guy they arrested. His eyebrows almost grow together across his face and the picture of the masked shooter had space in between. Yet, there he is, with the gun and fake ID, just sitting and waiting for the police to arrest him.
I agree; the whole thing just smells, unless the gunman just wanted the notoriety for some reason. I just can't believe how many people believe the victim "deserved" to die. I am certainly no fan of insurance companies, but no one deserves to be shot down in the street by a vigilante coward.
From what I have been reading, the CEO was supposed to testify to the DOJ hearing, and possibly about insider trading (the rumor involves people like Pelosi), so it seems to me more like someone from inside the insurance industry someone connected to the crimes being investigated wanted this guy dead so he could not testify. Remember, a while back, there was some kind of CEO type guy supposed to testify, and found shot in the head in his pickup outside of his hotel room ? I think that they called that death a suicide, like often happens, but I think this is something similar to that, and we may never hear the whole story.