SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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The wife and I had to make the drive in to work this morning for a Benefits Fair. (Open Enrollment is coming up soon.) This was mandatory yet unpaid. It was our day off.
We drove the 11 miles in and parked the car. The wife was dressed in jeans and a hospital Sports Shirt. I was dressed in shorts and a Hospital Sports Shirt. Both of us had our I.D.'s clipped to our collars. We walked into the hospital and quickly reached the Benefits Fair in the main hall. We had to sign in to prove that we had been there.
As we started walking around the fair I shook my head. Not a single booth there had anything to do with our benefits. Instead one of the Tables was advertising AAA. Another was for the Credit Union run by our parent corporation. There were vendors for car and housing insurance as well as B.J.'s and Sams Club. There was a Chiropractic group there that didn't accept our insurance. Hell there was a group there advertising Lasik Surgery, and yet our insurance doesn't cover that. There were two car sales companies there offering great deals on used cars. The only thing was you had to get the loan for the car through the credit union.
Well the wife and I grabbed some info and freebies from AAA and Sams Club. (We're already members.) We ignored the pitches from most of the vendors and only stopped long enough ata couple of them to check out their prices. The Cell Phone Vendors were offering "deals" much higher than their usual deals.
The funniest one though was the Beauty Shop set up down at one end. They saw me and came out to convince me to donate my hair. That was fine as far as it went, I've been thinking about doing so. In fact this was the reason I started growing it. Then they dropped their little bomb. Because I would be donating my hair they would only charge me $50.00 for the haircut. I told them to blow it out their posterior orifice. My wife and I left soon after.
I can only wonder at how much money our parent corporation receives from these companies. I can also wonder at how many of my co-workers were stupid enough to fall for this.
Cat
We drove the 11 miles in and parked the car. The wife was dressed in jeans and a hospital Sports Shirt. I was dressed in shorts and a Hospital Sports Shirt. Both of us had our I.D.'s clipped to our collars. We walked into the hospital and quickly reached the Benefits Fair in the main hall. We had to sign in to prove that we had been there.
As we started walking around the fair I shook my head. Not a single booth there had anything to do with our benefits. Instead one of the Tables was advertising AAA. Another was for the Credit Union run by our parent corporation. There were vendors for car and housing insurance as well as B.J.'s and Sams Club. There was a Chiropractic group there that didn't accept our insurance. Hell there was a group there advertising Lasik Surgery, and yet our insurance doesn't cover that. There were two car sales companies there offering great deals on used cars. The only thing was you had to get the loan for the car through the credit union.
Well the wife and I grabbed some info and freebies from AAA and Sams Club. (We're already members.) We ignored the pitches from most of the vendors and only stopped long enough ata couple of them to check out their prices. The Cell Phone Vendors were offering "deals" much higher than their usual deals.
The funniest one though was the Beauty Shop set up down at one end. They saw me and came out to convince me to donate my hair. That was fine as far as it went, I've been thinking about doing so. In fact this was the reason I started growing it. Then they dropped their little bomb. Because I would be donating my hair they would only charge me $50.00 for the haircut. I told them to blow it out their posterior orifice. My wife and I left soon after.
I can only wonder at how much money our parent corporation receives from these companies. I can also wonder at how many of my co-workers were stupid enough to fall for this.
Cat
