So I died and went to work

[sovay]

spatch and I are once again preparing to leave the house to prove to the satisfaction of our health insurance that we really live where we say we live and really make what we say we make and really are eligible for the insurance we are trying to apply for in this our annual period of open enrollment.

I complained to rushthatspeaks; I said I wanted to do necromancy on Franz Kafka and yell at him.

They pointed out that under the circumstances Kafka would probably just try to sell me insurance.

I said I'd buy it.

Comments

[phi]

I don't know if it helps any to know that having tech employer sponsored health insurance does not free one from kafkaesque paperwork nightmares, as I endeavor to prove to my employer two things:
that my husband's employer inexplicably starts their health insurance year on Nov 15 instead of Jan 1, and thus we have no insurance right now and I would very much like to have it, because while I am not intending to have a medical emergency in the next six weeks, one doesn't exactly get to schedule these things in advance
that my child is my child, because for some reason, in this two thousand eighteenth year of the common era, employers cannot fathom why a mother would have a different surname than her child.

[sovay]

that my child is my child, because for some reason, in this two thousand eighteenth year of the common era, employers cannot fathom why a mother would have a different surname than her child.

That is completely unreasonable! Good luck.

[jesse_the_k]

scheduled medical emergency is my new band name, and also insurance co's wet dream.

[yhlee]

I'm sorry you have to go through this. Good luck.

[sovay]

I'm sorry you have to go through this. Good luck.

Thank you. We came out of it with insurance! But I still think this is a silly set of things to have to keep proving.

[gwynnega]

I hope all goes smoothly.

At this point, someone should start a Kafka Insurance Co.

[sovay]

At this point, someone should start a Kafka Insurance Co.

Even if they were an art collective, yeah, seriously.

Thank you.

[selkie]

I had a whole post-pie, pre-we're-gonna-be-closed-for-five-days chat with my hairdresser who also does our bookkeeping and HR about accommodation for my general cripness and how it's not going to go away, which I consider a brave thing to have done considering how my amygdala pegs my self-worth to my usefulness, so comfort yourself that no one's having fun this afternoon?

*hugs*
JUST BITE THEM.

[sovay]

I had a whole post-pie, pre-we're-gonna-be-closed-for-five-days chat with my hairdresser who also does our bookkeeping and HR about accommodation for my general cripness and how it's not going to go away, which I consider a brave thing to have done considering how my amygdala pegs my self-worth to my usefulness, so comfort yourself that no one's having fun this afternoon?

You are brave and your amygdala can join the rest of us in needing to reorganize its standards and practices.

*hugs*

WE HAVE INSURANCE.

[jesse_the_k]

Amygdala pie for all!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm sorry. And good luck with it! <3

[sovay]

I'm sorry. And good luck with it!

Thank you! It just feels like, if this is the legitimate route to health insurance, where on earth would we get the time and energy to cheat?

[julian]

I only ever have the problem of explaining my earnings to them, I never have to over-prove where I live.

Sympathies unto you for your extra level of bureaucratic hell.

[sovay]

Sympathies unto you for your extra level of bureaucratic hell.

Thank you. It paid off, but I still resent it.

[sartorias]

You probably wouldn't want the sort of insurance that Kafka would be likely to sell.

Good luck!!!

[niqaeli]

You probably wouldn't want the sort of insurance that Kafka would be likely to sell.

Probably true, but... it still might be better than the current insurance. >_>

[sartorias]

Yeah, there's that.

[sovay]

Probably true, but... it still might be better than the current insurance.

That kind of was my theory.

[sovay]

Good luck!!!

Thank you!

[kenjari]

Ah yes, there have been so many times I've wanted to remind various organizations that The Trial and The Castle were not intended to be how-to manuals.

On a friend's facebook post, there was a small digression about "wholesome Kafka", and now I am wishing I remembered more Kafka stories in enough detail to come up with an insurance related one. Instead, I will give you the two comments:

"a trial where despite your protest and lack of evidence all your friends tell you you're valued and use the fact that they held a trial to tell you you're valued as evidence." (MT, whom I do not know)

"A version of The Castle where you have to go through all these endless hoops to live in a town and join its community only to find out that they set up those hoops to stall for time while they found you a great house/flat to live in and put together an awesome house-warming party to welcome you." (me)

[sovay]

On a friend's facebook post, there was a small digression about "wholesome Kafka", and now I am wishing I remembered more Kafka stories in enough detail to come up with an insurance related one. Instead, I will give you the two comments

Those are really warming. Thank you!

(Kafka could have used them, too.)

[cmcmck]

Cockroach insurance?

[sovay]

Cockroach insurance?

Against cockroaches or sold by them?