moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

okay back into the phone system after wasting 20 minutes in website chat support setting the clock at 1pm let's gooooooo

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

hm no hold music this time, have I already been disconnected?

wait no a ring... AND THREE BEEPS AND CUT OFF

we're off to a great start today everyone, it's going to be a gruelling afternoon

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

back into the phone tree

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

i do not give a fuck about the united health care mobile app

i will tell you "no" every time you play this same 20-second loop at me and i do not consent to the additional terms that they include no no no no no

definitely love it's 100% unskippable

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

no i will not be willing to take a brief survey at the end of this call

okay transfer again... ring...

oh christ it's the united health care mobile app spiel again

another ring...

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

[gets rep, explains everything again]

"Okay I'll be more than happy to help you with that in just" [RING] [disconnected]

jesus fucking christ


moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

let's go nightmare health care system gamers let's gooooooo

[redials]


moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

[same bullshit] [no fuck you and your extended permissions I do not want your text app]


moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

y'know what? i will do your fucking survey if it'll let me.

paul_ipv6,

@moira

"are you willing to take a short survey after this call?"

"are you really ready for the kinds of things i'll say in a survey after this experience..."

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

@paul_ipv6 for. reals.

paul_ipv6,

@moira

i'm about to dive into UHC hell to get an appt to get high blood pressure meds, since the HBP seems to be back. want to make any bets on how many points higher my BP will be after i get off the phone...

<pictures a thermometer registering a temp so high the top explodes off it>

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

@paul_ipv6 good luck!

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

[gets rep, explains everything again]

"so you want to know [completely wrong thing]"

NO. PLEASE LISTEN TO ME.

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

[re-explains very caredfully]

"so you want to know [completely wrong thing]"

NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

I still don't think she gets it.

(I've been trying to get this to happen for a week, btw.)

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

i can't get over either that she's confused that i was on the website

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

I think they're about to try to hand me off to Washington State again, which has everything right. But can't fix this.

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

[long conversation overhead partly on speaker in Spanish]

okay maybe not

[she comes back]

okay it's less bad than that

she says her supervisor says the number on the billing page will reflect the previous month in the event of a subsidy/tax credit change until the next monthly calendar rollover. so that's why it's showing the same number as last month.

so what should happen is that this month should show the right amount as of tomorrow, and the auto-pay should bill the correct amount.

and if it doesn't i get to call back and go at this again. but that's not what should happen.

the most important part is: they agree they have the correct number, they just aren't showing it.

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

and I got an "interaction ID" and a number and I'm off the phone.

Basically an hour. Okay. That's a lot better than Friday's 4.5 hours.

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

I didn't get the survey lol

moira,
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

(thank fuck her supervisor speaks spanish too. i mean, her english sounded fine, but something wasn't connecting, and from experience I can tell you that's often 10000% a language difference. once he explained it in spanish she understood it just fine.) (which is a long way of saying "As frustrating as that was, I don't think she's an idiot, I think there was a language thing.")

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