Kevin's Watch

Jenn, I am feeling much vicarious vindication, having no love lost for used car salesmen. Met and dealt with more of them in my life than I ever wanted to.

bad day. I have had enough. In the past month the city has cancelled my health insurance 3 times. No reason to cancel, just cancelled. It is a fiasco to get it reinstated each time. City workers are very very very bad quality. The first time I call my personnel office and they say there is nothing wrong on their part, that I have to call the health benefits main office. I call them they say it is not them that I have to call my personnel office because they were notified I was terminated on 8/23. I call personnel they say they did no such thing and on and on and on. I call the help line they direct me to the benefits office. Took 2 weeks and I was reinstated the second time. Last night I get a letter I have been terminated on 1/17. I am not terminated, I am on workmans comp and still drawing a salary. The thing about this system is that my insurance is covered by 4 different programs, one for eyes, one for dentist, one for medical and one for hospital so each cancelation requires four battles.

So here we go again.

Competence is in short supply these days. Hope you get it fixed quickly. I hate dealing with those sorts of things.

Sorry, lorin, but I feel like playing that trope, "You get optical?..." (seeing as my vision is getting so much worse lately)

Sorus wrote:Competence is in short supply these days.

Why is it that the incompetent ones get the promotions!!!!!

Seriously. Stag and I were talking about that this morning. Poor communication, lack of boundaries/ objectives, zero relationship; let that steep for a few months and you get crash-and-burn (which we saw coming months ago and are watching happen even now). And yet the person who brought all this to pass has been sent upline in the hierarchy, a position being created for him. It staggers belief. They haven't finished, either. And there isn't a thing we can do about it.

We keep vacillating between fury at the whole snafu, and going "What the heck!!" and actually laughing about it. There is kind of a freedom in having absolutely no control over something. If it all crashes down around our heads, we'll still have a life.

deer of the dawn wrote:Sorry, lorin, but I feel like playing that trope, "You get optical?..." (seeing as my vision is getting so much worse lately)

Yeah, 1 pair of glasses per year for staring at computer 12 hours a day. I also get 2 grand a year to repair all the teeth I've ground down from tension and all the blood pressure medicine I need to cope with the fall-out from the stress. Some of the many benefits of prostituting myself for 20 years.

lorin wrote:lon' gisland (don't hold it against me)

Lawn Guyland? Some of the nicest people I know are from there.

Sorry for the stress-related conditions. Ugh!! You know, if they just gave you some support and made it less stressful for you, think of what the City would save in health insurance bills.

deer of the dawn wrote:

lorin wrote:lon' gisland (don't hold it against me)

Lawn Guyland? Some of the nicest people I know are from there.

I love that spelling! Going to change it right now.

I have not made many friends here. It just seems like there are two kinds of women, the ones that are cruising the malls to find the best spray tan and longest acrylic tips or those on the gramma' track. Maybe I'm just not giving them a chance.

Sorry for the stress-related conditions. Ugh!! You know, if they just gave you some support and made it less stressful for you, think of what the City would save in health insurance bills.

They need to stress us. That is the only way they think they are getting their monies worth.

Ive been better. My Grandson 'August Orion' passed away yesterday. He was only 3 months old. Just too sick to keep fighting. It was incredible how fast things turned from him doing just fine and improving, to this.

So proud of my Daughter and her BF. There came a time when they told the Dr's and nurses to just stop....it was the right decision but the most brave.

Ah, Soulbiter, I'm so sorry. As you say, a very brave decision. The little chap will have known nothing but love in his short life.

Condolences to you and your family, SoulBiter.

Very sorry to hear of your loss, SB.

"May the Father of Peace send peace to all who mourn and comfort all the bereaved among us...."

SoulBiter, condolences to your family.

I'm sorry for your loss SB. Sending big hugs.

It's 1 degree outside with a wind chill of -17. Ugh, just ugh.

Ah, so sorry to hear it SB.

--A

SoulBiter wrote:Ive been better. My Grandson 'August Orion' passed away yesterday. He was only 3 months old. Just too sick to keep fighting. It was incredible how fast things turned from him doing just fine and improving, to this.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry to hear that SoulBiter. Condolences to you and your family.

SoulBiter, that is just heartbreaking.

So sorry for your and your family's loss.

Sorry to hear, SB. Condolences to you and your family.

We are just heartbroken. I posted a picture in the Albums of KW. Thanks for all your condolences and thoughts and prayers.

For SoulBiter and family: