Breaking away from the typical chrono-linear blogging style (mostly because there was very little of note from what I've been doing the past few days) to vent about one of the things that really gets to me about a new job.To start out, this has nothing to do with any company in particular. I'm going on record and saying that I am very happy with the employer I've found, and I have been happy with several previous employers. I've been in and out of MANY employment situations, and they all have this in common. No matter how bad or how good the company, this is a universal nuisance that I'm ranting on. There's nothing quite as confusing, quite as annoying and quite as prone to mistakes with serious repercussion as new hire paperwork.
"FYI: When getting a new job, just bite the bullet and do the paperwork as soon as you humanly can." It's easy to say don't procrastinate on it. It's much harder to actually follow through with said advice, sacrifice several hours of your life and risk your already tenuous grasp on sanity and sit down to decipher and fill out the forms. Life gets going, then the weekend hits and you want to relax, and before your feet even go up on the recliner its time to start working again. Somewhere in the kids and the housework and the workweek, this falls by the wayside and is easily forgotten. That is, of course, until you get an email saying that you have two more days to fill this out or you'll have to wait until next enrollment. O.O!
I realize this is rationalization on my part for my procrastination. Fancy for excuse. But for flip sake, do they HAVE to make the forms so complex? After static (which was great, BTW, only one hairy point and we were able to recover just fine and was bummed I had to cut it short) D and I spent waaay too much time deciphering what the forms were actually asking for, finding supplementary information and searching for letters of continued coverage. That last part was especially grueling, seeing as withing the last 12 months, we have had not one, not two, but four insurance carriers covering our family at different levels. In order not to get completely screwed over by the insurance companies, we had to hunt down letters of continued coverage from each of these carriers, for each of our family members, and send these in as well.
And we STILL didn't completely fill out the form. I'm expecting a few emails from our poor HR lady tomorrow morning, who'll have to sift through that mess of attachments I sent her way. She's been really patient with me so far, so I hope the craziness of my employment history doesn't make her disown me. :P
Tomorrow is Dynamis - Xarcabard. We've been doing DL kills regularly now, which is a big improvement over where we were a few months back. Gonna see if I can make it. If not, it'll probably be due to early evenings being crazy at the Cope household.
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