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The insurance man came to visit at work today. We all had appointments to see him so he could tell us about the "new and improved" insurance we will have come October 1st.
My varied health, life, dental and disability insurances will be now costing me over $500 a month. Shit. I think the disability insurance has gotta go.
As I'm talking to this guy we are BSing some about the work place, where he's from etc. while he's waiting for the right screens to come up on his laptop to ask me some medical questions.. I can't see the screen. So in the middle of the BS he asks me "Do you have a problems with aides?" I give him a stupid look, snort and say "Are you kidding me? I'm the director of nursing, the aides are killing me."
The man just stops looks up from his laptop and stares at me. While he continues to stare at me, he swings his laptop around and finally says "Umm..question number one." I look at the laptop...
Does the petitioner have HIV?
I about died "Uhh no, I thought you meant my staff."
The guy just shook his head and proceeded to #2.
I'm sure he was wondering why the questionaire didn't ask about mental illness. Oh well.
Is his business selling insurance to medical practitioners?? You'd think by now he'd have found an appropriate way to ask question #1 to avoid any confusion. For instance, "Okay.....question #1...." I would have assumed he was still BS-ing too. What a jerk!
Posted by: Buffy at August 26, 2003 10:31 PMWhy couldn't he just say "Do you have HIV?"?
Posted by: Erica at August 26, 2003 10:35 PMProof that where you stand depends on where you sit. Buffy and Erica are correct. Someone spent a considerable amount of time to make the question succinct, put it on a screen, and then the operator ignores the effort. File under "Total Lack of Common Sense" or "How did this person get this job?"
Posted by: JG at August 27, 2003 01:14 PM