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Comment by e40 | Hacker News Reader

Work for a Fortune 100 Company too.

Your HR department is shit. I manage a 30 person company and our benefits are better than what you've mentioned.

Yes, no argument there. I work for Fortune #75 (hint; it's probably hanging on your wall). Lost dental insurance last year, vision the previous year, and switched to an HDP the year before (with massive premium increases every year). But hey, the stock price was at an all-time high on Friday.

Funny thing about HR directors is that they don't last more than 1 year before rotating out. Don't want them to become too attached to the people they are there to screw.

>I work for Fortune #75 (hint; it's probably hanging on your wall).

Honeywell; thermostats?

HON stock did just hit an all time high.

To be fair, health insurance doesn't HAVE TO be provided through work. It's easier than ever to find a private plan. To the employer it's just another employee cost along with salary so if you didn't ask for a raise when that happened, that's on you then.

I did get a raise; had to threaten to quit, but did get one. It's the HSA contribution limit that pisses me off. I don't have an issue paying, but I'd at least like the benefit of pre-tax $. The HSA limit has not kept up with the ACA OOP limit. Other than inflation adjustments, it's up to congress to raise it.

Employers can also contribute to HSA. Ask them to top you off.

Unfortunately, the grand-parent poster's experience is par for the course at most Fortune 100 companies.

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