mllelaurel

Busy? More like "Denise put her lunch on top of it and it got shoved into somebody else's folder when it turned up four days later and we only just found it again, but we're a doctor's office so we're always right and you're always wrong."

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Ah. I see you've met them.

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In four states, two countries, and dozens of offices. I think they clone them, like the Nurse Joys in Pokémon.

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I'm very much not discounting that possibility.

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Can I start going around setting them on fire?

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I'd provide you with an alibi if you do. ^_^

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... fire is my answer to everything, isn't it?

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Moero, moero, moero! Fire pretty.

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"Busy"? Gah -- that's a good one. Do you know for sure if they've managed to send it out since then?

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I did sic my mom on them. She can be pretty scary, so my chances get slightly better.

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Double-check just in case; I've had doctors' offices require months worth of phone calls and nagging after being promised that "we're putting everything in the mailbox this afternoon" each time. And good luck!

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Oh, I plan to~ *insert slightly twitchy-sounding evil laugh*

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I spent four years at it once just being plain stonewalled. The voicemail was always on and my messages were never answered. Four years. Never did get that paperwork -- I'm not convinced it ever existed. :P

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Damn. It's a rather sad state of things when "only" a two-week delay for urgent paperwork is the sign of an efficiently run office.

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Yeah. I want to know why at my job an accuracy rate of only 96% is considered grounds for dismissal (when failure means that a rich man only made $15,008 instead of $15,025 and the company has to pay for it) and at all the medical, student loan, etc. offices I've been to accuracy and timeliness are things that happen to other people. *growls*

There may be offices where this isn't the case, of course. But it happens with disturbing regularity -- there was literally a semester of school where I spent more hours in the bureaucracy offices submitting and re-submitting paperwork to a staff of students and bored retirees than I did in class.

And I am using the word "literally" correctly. Three hours of classes a day only three days a week is nine hours a week. I was spending an average of twelve forcing them to correct mistakes. I'm now trying to remember whether that was the semester after the one where my medical records were released to my entire dorm or whether it was the semester before the one where they signed me up multiple times for a class and I didn't find out until I was put on academic probation for not showing up for class three times simultaneously.

Oops ... sorry. Started ranting there. :/

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No worries; you've earned the rant (unless

mllelaurel wants her comments page back in order?). One of these days I'd really like to meet those "other people" who can't afford to be strangled in red tape. My girlfriend ended up on academic probation after a similar situation, and at a school tiny enough that there really wasn't an excuse for that kind of error.

(Also, on a lighter note, your icon!)

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Rants are more than ok. Encouraged, in fact.

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*meep!*

Steal it if you like it, but only if you get the full reference in the paraphrased quote. ^_~

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unluckylasers.livejournal.com

Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell....

Hi, I'm the aforementioned girlfriend. :)

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Yay!

And -- nice to meet you!

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*waves* Hi! Nice to meetcha!

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unluckylasers.livejournal.com

Hey everyone! :D I have heard much about you.

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Good things, I hope? ;)

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Not stealing, just admiring. :) And yes, I definitely get the original context and meaning.

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The scheduling thing? Unbelievably obnoxious. (Perhaps they think that Bennington students are equipped with Time-Turners.)

The behavior at your doctor's office? Obnoxious and irresponsible, especially considering how conscientious you've been.

Sigh.

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