And nothing much happened today. Old Boss was in meeting with customers all day so he wasn't even around. I'm expecting more ... things to happen tomorrow. Old Boss, New Boss, and their boss (they both have the same boss) are all supposed to be in the office tomorrow. They'll probably get together in various combinations (Ooh - math problem. If there are three people total and you must have at least two to have a conversation, how many possible combinations are there? The answer is four: AB, AC, BC, ABC. I just can't leave a math problem unsolved.). There's a slight chance I'll get dragged into some of those conversations (Follow-up question: What if there are four people? Answer: 11; AB, AC, BC, ABC, AD, BD, CD, ABD, ACD, BCD, ABCD. Final exam: What's the general form for this formula given n total people and at least two are necessary for a conversation?). Regardless of how it goes down, I'm real curious to see what happens. There's still a chance I could get screwed but I don't think that'll happen. I mean, unless Boss's Boss comes up with some reasoning from way out in left field.
I did get in quite the long conversation with the pharmacy late this afternoon. The company just changed providers - or, at least, the way things are done. I was expecting there would be problems. I had a refill we needed to pick up. Sue said she could stop on the way home and get it because she usually gets out before me. By 4:00 I had a voicemail from her at my desk saying there was an issue. I called her back and she told me that the pharmacy wanted $800 for this refill and that she didn't get it. I said that was the right call because it should have been more like $50 and not eight hundred freakin' dollars! After I got the details from her, I called the pharmacy to get the story and they told me the same thing Sue did. So I called the new prescription folks.
I don't know what the dude's problem was but the guy that answered the phone sounded kind of retarded. Turns out, yep - he's retarded. We talked for a good little bit and he screwed up a couple of things. For instance, he told me my maximum yearly out-of-pocket was just over $32,000. I said that sounded a mite high and he said something about that's what the computer was telling him.
Next up on the list was HR. I told the lady the story and she actually laughed when I got to the part about $32,000 because it was just ridiculous. She called the prescription people and conference called us all together. I told my story a third time to the new (non-retarded) prescription lady. The first thing she wanted to look into was the $32,000 because, I assume, that was the most ridiculous. Turns out, the retard from early was, in fact, reading the wrong line. That's how much prescription coverage I've consumed in total. I'm not real sure how you get those confused but the retard figured it out. Once that was solved the lady then looked to the $800 issue. That one she couldn't help with. Basically she said it was flat-out $800. By the time we were done it was nearly 5:00 and my doc had already split for the day. He was the next one to call to have the "Is there a cheaper generic drug as a replacement?" conversation. I left a message and will certainly be following up on this tomorrow. But, I mean, it's not like I've got to drop thirty-two grand - so that's something.
By the way, the if there are n people and at least two are necessary for a conversation, then there are [(2^n) - n - 1] possible combinations.
