u/OPSEC-Sentinal

At what point is 75¢ of every dollar too much for the military?

I don’t think things all be any bit better, in fact i think things will be a lot worse. I don’t recognize the US as it is.

Context: university, not a lot of funding per dept. Team of 5. Serving roughly 30k people, staff, students, and whatever else gets thrown on top.

So, hi! I’m the IT guy that sits in the shadows—except I’m personable, bilingual for my multicultural teams, and I enjoy what I do. Like a lot.

So I’ve been here for 5 years, Alan for 6. Due to all these budget cuts from the gov, there’s not a lot going on. My job is essential so I’ve survived 2 rounds of purges so far.

But one thing I know about my job is that nothing happens quickly unless the right hands have enough grease in them. So every ticket, and every walk to a restroom FAR away from my work area is time to briefly catch up with the girlies or shoot the schitt with boys. I’m bi so I’ve got the distinct pleasure of both teams thinking I’m either straight or gay. It’s fine, it works in my favor. :)

So while I’m doing all this talking on my way to the restroom or while working extra tickets—I’m looking at your devices. Checking the cables. Stealing much-appreciated desk candy. Looking at keyboards. Noticing who has cruddy monitors. If I’m at your computer, I’m running updates on your Internet browser and all of your drivers whether or not that’s the help you needed.

To put it plainly, I keep an eye out for everyone. And it’s noticed people know exactly who’s watching out.

So I noticed that one of the directors of HR has got a weird three-monitors set up running DVI and VGA through two DP ports in an HDMI port. It’s probably a lot of tech mumbo-jumbo for you, but her set up is essentially the 2010 equivalent of cash for clunkers. So I made a note of it, and as people were purged out of the system, I made sure I set a few monitors off to the side. I swapped her out and upgraded her stuff as best as I could, and it didn’t cost us anything.

I put in tickets to document my work or assign them to me to do later. And now it’s not acceptable. If a ticket is put in, the person it’s assigned to must do it. So I’m still noticing, still trying to help under the table, but now, I have to put in a ticket and it forces my team to do it. My teammates are mad at me because the extra things I can’t slide under the radar.

My boss is mad because these tickets are showing what needs done, mad because he can’t simply close it for a lack of need because the fixes I do are usually free, and honestly just make it easier for someone to go to work.

I want to move into security but no one is leaving their position so I can move up. I’m working on my sec+ but I’ve got a few others not to mention experience but I’m just fed up. Like I’m truly passionate about helping out wherever i can, and I’m suffocated by processes. Just let me work bro.😎

Every person I proactively help, preserves my job. It helps me get things done faster due to favors.

So we know health insurance companies are using AI as a way to maximize profits rather than to maximize patient care. A lot of denial, and there’s absolutely evidence already brought forth from other subsidiaries of companies of AI based in Denials at a rate of 90% if not more.

I mean, it’s almost rational to say that if these kinds of AI base systems are being deployed against the Betterman of the overall majority of Illinois civilians, the first thing they could do is demand their internal AI training logs, algorithmic error rates, and employee "speed-to-review" metrics.
And then If we find that a human "reviewer" is approving 500 AI-generated denials a day—meaning they spend less than three seconds looking at each case—I would sue them under the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act. I'd argue that "rubber-stamping" an AI's denial constitutes bad faith and a deceptive business practice.

If we moved into something such as like homeowners insurance— it seems like these companies are dramatically, raising premiums to a point where either no one can afford them or they just quietly pull out of the area, citing climate reasons. I mean at this point we should just double down what happened with State Farm in October 2025. But on a broad scale. I don’t think it would be hard to subpoena the premiums based off of ZIP Codes and map out where a lot of these cancellations are occurring… If the data proves insurers are disproportionately squeezing working-class communities in South Side Chicago, Rockford, or Metro East—while claiming "weather risks" that aren't backed up by actual meteorological data—we would prosecute them for discriminatory pricing.

My favorite one is the car insurance companies, in the state of Illinois we have a lot of laws that protect the average driver, but now we’ve got car insurance companies that are charging drivers higher premiums based on non-driving factors like credit score, ZIP code, gender, or educational level.

It would not be hard to open an investigation into insurance companies to see how the risk pools are calculated, force insurers to produce the mathematical justification linking a low credit score or a blue-collar job title to a higher likelihood of getting into a car accident. Because study after study shows these metrics are just proxies for race and income, I would argue that using these non-driving factors violates Illinois' civil rights protections and constitutes "unfairly discriminatory" rate-setting.

Don’t get me wrong I know what an AG should do for the state of Illinois, their job isn't to stop insurance companies from making a profit. Their job is to ensure that when an Illinoisan pays their premium month after month, the insurance company actually holds up their end of the contract when disaster strikes. If they use secret algorithms, demographic profiling, or bureaucratic stalling to avoid paying what they owe, they will have to answer to the State of Illinois.

The problem is I can’t get my voice loud enough to get an actual response, and now I have to come to Reddit in hopes that someone else can pass this along and maybe help me figure out why my car insurance went up $300, my driving record didn’t change, and there have been no significant changes to my life. In fact, my credit score went up significantly. I’m almost at 800.

You’re having your employee walk the center median of Broad 6pm on a Friday night in the middle of road construction and high traffic… ADVERTISING… tf how dangerous for them… I could give ashit about the pan handlers there— no one is forcing them in the road… but a business doing operations in the middle of the street while it’s all coned up and already dangerous— you’re about make some child’s first day of school real sad when mom doesn’t make it home from her 15$ per hour job.

It’s been a really long work week, and the next 12 weeks of my life are gonna be back to back multi day with OT everywhere. I really just need something to laugh at.