Tuesday - night

I think I mislabeled the previous entry as Tuesday which was incorrect. That was Monday.  

Today was the last day of work before this massive vacation. I say massive for the number of days off - 9 - and the amount of traveling we will be doing - with me NOT at the steering wheel.  

The offload went quickly, drove over to the Peterbilt in Bossier City - about 2-1/2 hour drive.  When I got there, the man knew who I was with. You must be the one with such and such trucking. Yes.  You're here for the AC issue.  Yes and a list of other things.

Well, we only have AC on here. I don't understand why every single thing with this company has to turn into a pain-in-the-ass, but it does.  We went back and forth, I simply ended this nonsense by saying first off, my  manager said he sent an updated list and second, I can call them right now and have them verify it. 

The list was not a short one, trust me, there are a lot of things wrong with that truck that have been needing fixed.  When we finally got to the bottom of this situation, I dropped the trailer on their lot, parked the tractor where I wanted it and waited for my ride. The misses of the house and the kids.    

The real ordeal today, however, was the ongoing bs with the health insurance.  This person who had sent me an invitation from Bavvy to use their system for health insurance never replied to fully 4 separate emails.  The man that is the contact for it never replied, either.  I emailed the HR person and told her I am buying temporary insurance today and I fully expect you, the company to PAY FOR IT.  

She wrote back rather testy - didn't you see the email they sent you? They said they sent you email and you never replied.  I replied to this person with a rather lengthy message.  I'm not going to revisit that message because this whole situation is completely and totally aggravating, it's going on and on and onnnnnn.....But in a nutshell, yes, I got their email and I replied to her 4 times without a reply and once to the man that was going to set temporary up also without a reply. 

This woman copies and pastes as reply from Bavvy stating that they never received a reply from me. I copied and pasted the emails I sent to them and then I jumped right back down her throat, reminding her that she didn't believe me when I first contacted her telling her that Christus has sent an email saying my health care coverage had expired on May 31st and sending her an actual copy of the damn email. 

I then informed her yet again I'm purchasing my own through the Texas portal today and I want immediate reimbursement.  I sent her a series of other emails since she wanted to talk so bad but I didn't receive any confirmation that the company is going to reimburse me for health care coverage.  

And yes, I went into the Texas portal and bought a temporary policy that is limited and has a huge deductible but it's intended for catastrophic types of incidents that you need that kind of coverage for. If you don't, you lose everything you own paying for it and your life is basically ruined as you once knew it. 

I sent a copy of the statement which included the price and no, I of course didn't receive a reply, but now I at least have coverage of some sort, better than nothing.  

I am likely going to inform my manager that if it isn't paid back to me before I return from vacation, I am refusing to work until it is.  If they want to fire me, they will get a lawsuit thrown at them for retaliatory termination and it highly likely that I would win such a case. I hope not to have to go down that road, but as is me, I tend to go down all the rabbit trails of things that could possibly happen now that I have started this ball rolling.  

I can tell you something that I have said a few times here: AI has been my friend in this. I am NOT an expert in healthcare situations such as this, I was groping in the dark and just happenstance put in an inquiry at the beginning of this into a Google search and an AI response came up that was quite intriguing. Asking it multiple questions, I came out with knowledge I don't really want to have to have but glad I found it. This AI creature even gives me drafts of the words I should speak to the various people I am dealing with.  Especially the government agencies.  It's quite amazing but yes, it can be wrong.  In this case and so far? It's been spot on.  The ESBA is a real government agency.

In fact, there is an update about that as well!  This lady from that agency calls me back and says she has called multiple times and has left numerous messages and has received no reply from them.  I was like, wow!  So, I gave her the direct number to Tabitha, the HR person! LMAO.  

After talking to her, I am assuming she spoke with Tabitha today, who knows they aren't saying anything from corporate, I input this information to a ridiculous long "conversation" I have been having with AI about this and it came back with a lot of stuff.  The only thing that  not replying will do, AI stated, is make the government even more suspicious. The government will not stop, they don't care how long it takes and it has "unlimited" resources.  Which it does, basically. They don't just say, oh well, they won't answer their phone or return phone numbers, ohhh my goodness nooo. 

So, that's where that's at for now.            

Today I started prepping for the vacation, tomorrow will be a full day of it.  Haircuts - me and 3 kids, tractor work at the park, a few hours should deal with it, pack, get the house cleaned up nicely, some trips to stores for the last minute stuff - we are having a steak night but they want to buy steaks from some meat house in a town 30 miles away. All well and fine, she is going over there tomorrow with the youngest for his psychology assessment.  The assessment will detail at length what they have found to be issues with him and in depth look at his inner being as they see it and what is going on inside of his brain to the best that they can determine it.  I have a list of things to do, is what I'm saying and I need to go to bed!

G'nite.