Keeping track of two
insurances when ONE is AWFUL on processing payments (as in I JUST got mail from
JANUARY submissions)... then if I submit the 2nd too early they kick it back as
"not allowed" ... add to it this insurance is seriously STUPID in
that I have NEVER had to specify I'm overseas and that they pay ME direct...
they just did it... well this time they did NOT. They sent a check in the
laboratory’s name for dollar amounts. What stupidity is this???
sigh... so NOW I need to go back and tell the stupid people what they did...
and make sure that no more are paid out to the German labs/doctors.
Sigh. ONE more thing to track. Very irritating and the paper trails
are HUGE and convoluted... so they have sat on my side of the entry table for a
week. Today I dove in and saw that I have the added joy of following up
on all the prior stuff and getting it all straightened out tomorrow after
work.
THEN I also go the whole
"you owe $21,000" thing worked out in my pea brain and figured out
long before the gal in finance did just what the blazes is going on. She
never bothered to state that they weren't filling out their paperwork correctly
and THAT is why in March I got a big check for $6,500... Nope, they weren't
that coherent - she even said at one point "I don't know what is going on
with that". Well, apparently when they did their reconciliation and
figured out they were 1) overpaying me and 2) underpaying me in the same
breathe they neglected to check the box of calling DFAS and telling them that
"hey, we are putting in details into this account and the
"credit" she is due should go against her debt"...oh, no, they
just put it in and then DFAS just paid me that difference - they're not
tracking history, just money. So in their minds they had already determined
that I owed them and adjusted my pay but didn't even bat an eye when I was then
"owed" $6,500 after that fact... so they just paid it outright.
Sigh.. so twice this has happened with adjustments... so now the finances are
REALLY screwed up and there is no telling how far were' off. I know I had
another $1,500 credit tossed in there as well as a few checks with money taken
out... so I am rounding down a bit in hopes to meet them in the middle and not
overpaid them... but to slightly underpay for now and by the time it all
catches up we'll be even Steven. Clear as mud? Yeah, me too.
It was crazy and a lot of spreadsheets were used until the lights came on to
what they were doing... crazy train and stressful to say the least BUT in good
news the whole "We neglected to pay for your COLA all this time" is
about what it was for the rest of the money... so it all worked out in the
end. I think I still came out a few hundred ahead... which is a sad
statement.
BUT on the good side I had the
money to pay them, on the bad side they really did a number on my morale for
this place. It was already bad with COVID and restrictions and just the
overall desire to bug out of here... but finances pushed me over the
edge...
Let's face it, I've not been
the same or happy after coming home from seeing the girls. Travel this
summer has been nil as I'm not pushing it. The variant is out there,
there is no protection for me as I had my shots well over 6 months ago and
Butch is a chicken when it comes to travel... and honestly I have lost my mojo
and thinking it's better to just push the return early button at some point.
I have the added stress of the
Rectocele and now KNOWING it's there makes me more aware. Not sure how
long it's been there but now I know, I know... so that adds some concerns and
stress to me. But other than that I'm fine... I say cackling like and
insane woman - hahaha!
Really, the rest is all just
"stuff". I sat here for two hours going through claims and
lining them all up and am still a bit confused on a few of them... and more
than concerned with this insurance company I'm dealing with - we'll be moving
back to Blue Cross here when open season comes... they are SO much easier...
well, I hope they are for overseas - they were much easier for stateside and
honestly I hope I'm there before open season anyway...
I'm putting off telling bosses
I'm done... I want to stick it out and get some of this stuff accomplished and
done and leave the place better than I found it on the KM level, but honestly it's
a challenge. I know I left it better than I found it on the SharePoint
side in some aspects. I know I did for some of the relationships, but not
nearly enough. And therein lies the problem... when is enough, enough...
what is good enough? What is progress because it's a comparison? I
think there is always room for more improvement.... it's a rough and long road
though and I'm honestly not there... I know it.. I want to be but I can only
control so much. And Marines are different in that I can't find a stitch
of regulation to build MY regulations off of... there is no overarching
regulation for KM, so that makes my job that much harder. It’s a hard
sell area of work for sure!
And I care… I want it all to work out and be lovely
and beautiful and not be “that” person who left the place in a shambles – ya know?
And so it goes... and I am calling it an afternoon on the computer and going down for a snack - or lunch? it's 1pm, but I think we had a relatively late breakfast as well, so it's hard to determine if I"m really hungry or just bored with this and want a snack
