With new headway being made in stem cell research, they can now grow individual organs and they say that people can expect to live to 150 years old or beyond. When your organs wear out, they can simply be replaced. What does this mean to regular people or what about injured workers? Nothing! My thought is that this will be controlled by the rich for the rich, I’m not simply stating this to rant, there are other reasons which I will get to shortly.

If only the Rich and Powerful can afford to benefit from this, what will this do for our civilization? It will destroy it. The people that oppress the masses and get rich from us regular people, at the expense of our well being, will live longer to pillage further.

These are the same people that are causing pollution and global warming and are destroying our planet so they can keep getting richer, with these people living longer, our children will not even have the chance to fix what has been destroyed so far. These are the people that create global policy, that decide to stop the injured workers from getting much needed aid.

Another reason to wonder about this technology being made available to us regular folk is simply that we could not afford to live that long. Can you say that you can afford to get that old? A lot of people will rely on Government old age security when they retire, think about the cost of that to our Governments, as it stands, I’m not sure there will be a pension plan when middle aged people are ready to retire.

In our society, Governments take care of Governments and the wealthy supporters of those Governments. When is the last time your Government did something significant to make your life easier?

When is the last time your Government did something to make life easier for the Wealthy? I can recall some tax breaks for the rich fairly recently, but nothing significant for the poor or the injured that can’t afford the taxes they have to pay. So why do we think that this new technology won’t simply be regulated out of our reach?

This is not an easy task with the pain I am constantly in. I will look forward to sharing my ordeal with everyone early in January. I am currently working on some methods of helping injured workers earn money online while telling their stories to the world. I will be more frequently updating this blog in the New Year with information that will help others avoid the mistakes I made.

I will chat with you all soon.

It would seem that Polar Bear Corporate Training (aka Nexient Learning Inc.) has gotten in on the appeal process. As I had posted earlier, I thought they would be on the side of WCB (one of Nexient’s customers) and I was right. They disputed my projected income in commissions based on the situation at my 3rd month of employment where I rose from 56th to 11th in sales across Canada.

Nexient had the audacity to try to tell WCB Appeals that the sales I had made were handed off from previous employees, which is not only a smack upside the head but completely false. One would think that Head Office would research a bit better into the situation before entering into this appeal. I was hired to revive DEAD accounts. No previous sales commissions ever came near me. I made it to 11th in sales out of 56 across Canada based on my ability to develop relationships with key people that refused to do business with Polar Bear after bad experiences. The people who got my accounts when I was injured did however gain commissions from my efforts while I was being driven into near bankruptcy because I was injured.

Nexient even went so far as to say that there was a permanent cap on the amount of commission I could earn, again FALSE, the commission scale of pay was based on a quota system, quota’s were assigned low during trial period and reviewed on a quarterly basis after 3 months trial ended. At the time of my injury I would have maxed my income at $58,000 for the year, in actuality, I was up for a review of my quota to increase it based on my performance to date. I estimated to WCB that I would have averaged $80,000 a year but the truth is that I low balled it to make it easier to calculate. A high calibre sales rep could make well over $100,000 a year and I had already proved to them that I was that person.

I am truly disgusted with Nexient for their attempt to reduce their responsibility in this and I hope that this blog serves to hurt them in sales. Since my injury, I have not received one call or inquiry into my condition. Staff gets hurt, they get tossed to the side.

If you need computer training, NEVER go to Nexient or Polar Bear or even CDI Corporate which was purchased by Nexient as well. They treat their staff like garbage which should be a good indication of the treatment their customers can expect.

Nexient head office is evil and their staff as well as their customers mean nothing to them, the dollar is the only thing that matters.

Injured ride technician . . . has spent nearly $50,000 on legal and medical bills . . . “the way I was treated [by the board] wasn’t right.” Linda Nguyen, Vancouver Sun.

VANCOUVER – For almost seven years, Giovanni Cianelli’s life has been a roller coaster of mounting debt from medical bills.

The 38-year-old ride technician at the Pacific National Exhibition has been fighting with the Workers’ Compensation Board and its appeal tribunal ever since a 17,000-kilogram gondola struck him in the mid-back in July 2000.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has now ordered the board to review Cianelli’s case again, after his claim was denied twice.

“I am optimistic this time around. I don’t think they had all the information correct, so this is good news that I’m getting another review,” the East Vancouver resident said of Friday’s court decision.

Cianelli, who has worked at the PNE since high school, was unscrewing bolts on a suspended gondola when it began to move, knocking him to the ground.

He landed face down, injuring his forehead and nose and bruising his ribs.

It wasn’t until he returned to work after a five-week absence that the pain started getting worse.

Cianelli, a father of two young girls, said he didn’t realize how serious the pain was until he was taken to the emergency room because it began creeping from his feet up to his lower back.

According to court documents, the Workers’ Compensation Board (which was re-branded WorkSafeBC) denied his claims in 2003 and 2006 because Cianelli’s pain couldn’t be attributed to the accident.

Justice Austin Cullen has ordered the board to look at new medical evidence in the review, and not just use the facts presented in the 2003 claim. Cianelli said he has spent nearly $50,000 on legal and medical bills, including biweekly physiotherapy and massage therapy visits.

But he’s still happy to be back working full-time at the PNE for his 20th summer.

“I’m still struggling and sometimes I don’t sleep at night. But the PNE has been supportive because they know I got injured badly and that the way I was treated [by the board] wasn’t right,” he said.

Read the full story here

Polar Bear, now calling itself Nexient Learning will without question be against me, the title was just a rhetorical question . . . It’s funny how when all the other appeals were filed by me, I never once heard from Margaret Urquhart-Goguen of Polar Bear (PBSC, now Nexient Learning) Corporate Training out of Halifax. Now that I had some legal advice and made my appeal a lot more serious, they are stepping in (according to a letter I received from WCB June 18th, 2007). I am very disappointed with Nexient, since my accident on their premises, they have not contacted me to find out how I am doing, they have not once shown any concern whatsoever. As far as the quality of Polar Bear (Nexient Learning) as an employer . . . you decide.

I will keep you posted on how Polar Bear (PBSC, now Nexient Learning) Computer Training Centres really treats their employees. Since ultimately the employer does have to pay WCB money for claims, I am betting that they will do everything in their power to hurt my legitimate claim for more than $70 a month for permanent pain (a lot more). Should I be wrong and they are on their employees side, I will post an apology to Margaret Urquhart-Goguen, until then, this is the reality as I see it. Lets see if Nexient Learning has their employees best interest at heart or if they are just another greedy corporation that will toss employees aside that get hurt due to their carelessness and keep grabbing for the bucks at the cost of an employees life.

Yet again, more drama. My deadline for submitting my review claim is one week away and I still have not received my claim file which is what my review is supposed to be based on. I have called the disclosure department which put me through to the Review department which put me through to an intake officer who was not available. I’m not sure what this will result in, but I am a little surprised at how unorganized this place is. They seem to always lose things at opportune times which always benefit them. This is an obvious tactic to make me not appeal knowing all the facts.

For an organization boasting a surplus of over 2 billion dollars, they sure seem to run a shoddy operation. Then again, this is probably why they have such a huge surplus, they ruin peoples ability to get a fair review and then they don’t have to pay the fair and proper amount to the claim. Sickening is what it is, why do we have to take this? As injured workers we are not entitled to a fair hearing because they have these tactics in place. It is time too review the WCB. Not an internal review but a real review. We need to have fair appeals for the injured.