benefits

So arriving in my work email (which I'm checking via webmail, but most people only check in office), is the "open enrollment coming up" email. It states, "Additional details are on the way in the coming weeks." Yes, weeks as in plural. Problem is, open enrollment starts in a week from Monday. Hello!! Don't we need our information BEFORE open enrollment starts???? Like, duh, that would help! Especially since our medical insurance provider is changing (back to the one we had just before the buyout), our dental insurance provider is changing (not that it matters to me - I have a cheaper plan on my own), our pharmacy benefits are changing to a new provider, and there are new eligibilty criteria for the upcoming year. So it's not like we can just elect to re-up everything we've got, since EVERYTHING is changing. Even our Flex Spend is changing - the max amount is higher now.

Timing, people, timing. It makes a world of a difference.

So once I get my packet (Monday, hopefully????), I'll have to begin the whole "provider search" to make sure my primary care plus my two specialists plus the new specialist I'm seeing the 2nd to last day on the current plan are on the new plan. If the new one is not on the plan, I'll be cancelling her in the next week or two. No sense in going to see her once and then having to turn around and do another "new patient exam" with the next one. Let's just hope this new plan doesn't have anything against allergy shots. According to the reactions I get each time, I'm nowhere near ending them yet.

~QB29

I need to go away more often ....

Today I took a short break from work and ran to the nearby fire station for a car seat installation/inspection. Bubba, the younger nephew, is 18+ pounds and about out of the carrier. Since I don't have a base and would have to install the carrier itself each car trip next weekend when I have him, I thought it would make much more sense to install the RF convertible car seat. Even though I needed the FD to do it for me, it is a lot easier to do b/c it has LATCH, unlike the carrier. No matter how many times I've tried, I can't get the locking clip to lock in the right place :-(.

Well, back to why I need to go away more often. I wasn't gone 30 minutes and came back and my monitors were gone! In their place were 2 flat screens! I'm the last person in the office to get flat screens, though the 3 computers in the print room don't have them yet, but those computers are only used for printing reports, not assigned to an individual, and so are unlikely to be upgraded unless something breaks.

I wonder what else could be upgraded if I leave again?


UPDATE: I was informed shortly before leaving that my flat screens will be upgraded. The ones they gave me are actually smaller than my old monitors, lol. They have some larger ones around that they will give me sometime next week. I'm moving up in the world :-D.

~QB29