Frog and Goat

If there is one thing I can’t stand is me having to tell other people how to do their jobs…I had to complete paperwork yesterday for the contract job with the contracting company. I had my passport which the US GOVT gave me as proof of citizenship. Oh no, you need your social security card too. If you actually read the I-9 form then you’d see that no, all I needed was one item from column A…the passport. Even though I had it with me there was no copier in the Richmond office. Technically, it is my understanding that the employer must make a copy by his own hand so that it is “legitimate” and not some forgery I had my buddy do. Of course, I only worked in HR for 5 years and for half of those years as an admin in the hiring of employees. What do I know?

So now, when I ask how I can get onto the contractor’s website to process my timesheet I’m told I have incomplete documentation and when I get that done they’ll still take a week to get me access. It was all I could do to say I had my documentation but A)You are too dumb to read the I-9 and understand it and B)You have no copier in the office so it didn’t matter what I brought with me you couldn’t copy it.

Remind me again why I keep working for these people?

Here’s the scenario: our health insurance company switched from one RX company to their own RX division to handle prescriptions. This is all well and good. I called on Friday to refill my order and got someone who clearly needed to go through training again. I specifically ended the call with a repeat of exactly what I needed–name of drug and dose–because the person on the other end of the line was so out of it.

Guess what happened and, no, you don’t even have to think about it. The company left a message on the home machine this afternoon asking me to call in again about the order. After a good 30 minutes on hold the very professional (I mean that sincerely) customer service rep asked me to confirm the dose.

Here are my complaints:
if on the first day of providing the new service you can’t get someone trained and ready to go then don’t put that person on the phones.
if I’m on hold for 30 minutes program your phone system to get my name and number and call ME back.

And, on a completely different subject but one that is pissing me off (yes, I’m hormonal)–we agreed to let our next-door neighbor use our driveway for some equipment to come in and rip out part of his backyard so he can put up a garage. Today I got home and the driveway is THRASHED. Of course it is dark so I can’t really see the damage but I can tell that it is THRASHED. Also, he has a 2 car garage attached to his house…how much more garage do you really need? GRRR.

When you start up your saw at 7:30am you are a jackass. Actually you are a cheap jackass because I can hear that you need a new blade–go buy one.

When you post a comment or two and you are rude you get banned. But, today is your lucky day because you also get mocked…”this ux….its sooooo stupid!” If you are going to slam the site at least learn how to spell.

It just isn’t right that it is January 3rd and I have doors and windows flung wide letting the breeze flow freely through the house. I should be complaining that it isn’t warm enough even with the furnace running.

It just isn’t right that it is going to be 70 today and 73 tomorrow here in the Richmond area.