<story><title>“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”</title><url>https://medium.com/@jcheiffetz/i-had-a-baby-and-cancer-when-i-worked-at-amazon-this-is-my-story-9eba5eef2976</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curveship</author><text>Holy cow:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;quot;After my surgery [for cancer], while I was still on
     maternity leave, I received a form letter saying 
     that the health insurance provided by my employer 
     had been terminated. Dozens of panicked emails 
     and phone calls later, the whole thing was, I was
     told, a glitch in the system. After a week of back 
     and forth, I was offered COBRA coverage, by which 
     point I had already switched to my husband’s 
     insurance, where I remained for the duration of my 
     care.&amp;quot;
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That&amp;#x27;s a pretty GIGANTIC &amp;quot;glitch,&amp;quot; one that turned out hugely in Amazon&amp;#x27;s favor.  Cheiffetz claims she accepts that it was an &amp;quot;administrative error,&amp;quot; but you have to wonder.  By getting her to switch to her husband&amp;#x27;s plan, Amazon may have saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xcyu</author><text>Sounds like a great application of their Frugality principle.
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.jobs&amp;#x2F;principles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.jobs&amp;#x2F;principles&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”</title><url>https://medium.com/@jcheiffetz/i-had-a-baby-and-cancer-when-i-worked-at-amazon-this-is-my-story-9eba5eef2976</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curveship</author><text>Holy cow:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;quot;After my surgery [for cancer], while I was still on
     maternity leave, I received a form letter saying 
     that the health insurance provided by my employer 
     had been terminated. Dozens of panicked emails 
     and phone calls later, the whole thing was, I was
     told, a glitch in the system. After a week of back 
     and forth, I was offered COBRA coverage, by which 
     point I had already switched to my husband’s 
     insurance, where I remained for the duration of my 
     care.&amp;quot;
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That&amp;#x27;s a pretty GIGANTIC &amp;quot;glitch,&amp;quot; one that turned out hugely in Amazon&amp;#x27;s favor.  Cheiffetz claims she accepts that it was an &amp;quot;administrative error,&amp;quot; but you have to wonder.  By getting her to switch to her husband&amp;#x27;s plan, Amazon may have saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ninv</author><text>&amp;quot;glitch in the system&amp;quot;, sounds like business requirement to me. HR could not reactivate her health insurance so they called it a glitch in the system.&lt;p&gt;I am sorry for all the folks working there.</text></comment>