What a soul sucking week.
I started yesterday on the phone to the FSA provider. You see, my dentist’s business manager thought she was doing me a favor by invoicing me for whitening treatment, saying they wouldn’t cover it, which is bullshit. It’s an FSA. I can spend those funds on medical costs not covered my my insurance.
I’ve been fighting them for months. They’ve frozen my card. She did me no favor here.
I’m about to simply pay for it, like I should have from the start. FWIW, my teeth sparkle. Gone is the age yellowing, coffee and tea stains. I’m pretty. (heh)
So I have to download an explanation of benefits from my insurance. It’s easy. My dentist no longer is part of that plan. So nothing, but nothing, is covered. They show my tab, which has been climbing. More than enough on that doc to justify the expense. I nearly blew a gasket at the useless agent and resisted the urge to tell her that I hate her company’s guts and their shitty plan that makes you justify every nickel – even prescription meds that they used to pay without a hassle.
The tax savings isn’t worth it. What happens is that I have $500 to $800 left at the end of the year, and I scramble to use it or lose it. Why not just move some shekels from savings to an account for this to get started, and make payments to two grand or so? That way, what I don’t spend is there when I need it the next year.
Early in the week, I get another review email about a course that should have been published months ago. I deeply regret agreeing to use a rather immature AI tool that we’ve subscribed to for this. My original thought was to ditch the normal import-powerpoint-insert-audio and do it properly, like I used to. Nope. Went this route instead, like an idiot.
In general, I don’t feel one way or another about corrections or suggestions. Simply say them; “Remove the quotes around “Add”. Action targets should be in bold“. OK fine. I don’t view my work product as sacrosanct.
Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.
But for the sake of all that is holy, after pointing out the correction in a couple modules (it was part of a series of steps), don’t on the third module say “Why is “Add” in quotes?” It’s in quotes because you only requested the change a few steps earlier and haven’t sent the review to me to change yet. That’s why.
And FFS, don’t ask questions, like “Should a comma be here?” or rhetorical / thinking out loud questions – “I feel [it should be this way]”. I don’t. That’s why I did it the way I did it. “Are we using sentence case in titles now?”. I ignore these. Then on round two – “You didn’t do this”. No shit. You didn’t ask.
This back and forth has consumed the better part of two weeks.
What I’d like to do is retire. But I’m a quarter, at least, from being the minimum age requirement. I’m years away from the age where I planned to go part time. I need another two years, at least.
I think it’s time to start sniffing around to see what’s out there.
Inspected By Pat 
You had me at, “What a soul sucking week.”
~10 years back my kids went to a speech therapist. We submitted it to insurance, which paid. She then sadly DIED. Insurance decided they wanted more paperwork from her. A DEAD PERSON, we explained, though still possibly licensed through the state, would not be submitting any more paperwork. Claim then retroactively denied and my all the paid claims were deducted from my check for the next 2 years.
Fuck insurance companies.
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Careful with that “Retirement” stuff. I “Retired” last November and I’ve never been busier.
Hang in there. “There’s only one thing worse than having to get up and go to work every day. That’s NOT having to get up and go to work every day.” – Bone, Circa 1993 (during a rather LONG Hiatus courtesy of the Clinton Defense Industry Layoffs…)
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