Today, when I got home from work, the mail in my mailbox did not make me happy.
To begin with, Rockwell Collins is instituting a new "Participate in our Wellness Program, or pay an extra $125 a year in healthcare costs" policy. This year, participation means filling out a Personal Health Assessment with blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar numbers. Next year, they've conveniently left the door open to expand this participation to include taking online nutrition courses, or participating in community charity walks. I'm extraordinarily excited.
Here's where we start calculating how many hours of my time it's worth to participate. Given that my time is worth money, this $125 penalty is clearly worth only a certain amount of my time. Let's suppose, for instance, that I can make $50 an hour doing contract work outside of my day job. That's a very conservative number, but we'll work with it. This means that if participation in the wellness program at some point in the future involves more that 2.5 hours of my otherwise free time, it's no longer worth it to me.
This is clearly going to be very annoying.
But that's not all. I also got something from Saint Matthew's Churches today, and I was tempted to fill the postage-paid envelope with copies of Luke 16:13, but they'd probably just send me more mail. And then I'd probably want to start taping the envelopes to boxes of sand and dropping them off at the post office, and that wouldn't be very Christ-like, now would it?
*sigh*
Posted by Ardith at March 6, 2007 06:39 PM | TrackBack