Assumptions and comments people make about your job...

Man, if she goes to a Monday night at the Laff Stop she'll crap herself. Maybe it's the cheap liquor flowing, but I've heard some of the funniest **** ever on those night. The mess-ups & heckling are priceless...

Haven't been there in a while though - last time I went there was a guy doing his Lou Holtz impression & an Indian guy who had some of the audience REALLY pissed, which I found hilarious. Unless the guy is directing his entire schtick at you personally, why would you get pissed...

 

We are sweeping up the broken cookies.

 

don't you love when they ask you how to format documents
can u print up tickets or raffles or some such
what kind of computer should i get

Then don't like your answers anyway

Rocket River

 

This is a mini-rant. God I hate my job.

As an insurance adjuster, people....:
1)....assume that I'm a crook, along with the rest of the insurance industry.
2)....assume that I somehow get paid more to deny their claim. I'm straight-salary, in case you're wondering.
3)....cannot understand the concept of a premium, and that just because they've been paying premiums for the last 400 years does NOT mean that they're entitled to a bajillion dollars.
4)....cannot understand that its State Farm Insurance, not The State Farm Piggy Bank of Free Money.
5)....cannot grasp the concept of a COVERED LOSS. If its not covered, we don't owe for it.
6)....cannot grasp the concept of READING their policy. All covered losses, exclusions, etc are in the policy, which is a legally binding contract between you and the insurance company. Don't understand it? Call somebody to 'splain it to you. Call an attorney if the legal-eze doesn't make sense. Hell even the most experienced adjusters have to get advice on policy language.
7)....cannot grasp the fact that mold will not kill you, that mold is older than humanity, and has been growing in the grout of your shower since you bought your damn house, which is why there are companies that make products to clean nasty things like mold in your bathroom.
8)....assume that everything they see and hear about "black mold" from sensationalistic television "news" shows like 20/20, Dateline, and our very own Channel 2 "News" is the be-all/end-all of factual reporting.
9)....assume that I know everything there is to know about insurance. All I am is a property adjuster, people. I don't know one damn thing about auto insurance for your damn 16-year-old.
10)....automatically assume that we're out to get them. Nothing could be further from the truth.

People, its my godd*mn JOB to find a way to cover your loss to the best of my ability. People, I don't get paid enough for this thankless line of work. People, the absolute best and easiest thing for me to do is to find a way to cover you and get payment out to you. I don't like to deny claims....no adjuster does. It sucks for you and it sucks for me. And you f*cking with me and fighting with me is NO way to expedite the process. I've even had people argue with me when I've tried to give them more money!

Guy: "Don't you send that check! You're going to cancel my policy!"
302: "Sir, I HAVE to send you this check. It says so in your policy. And for what its worth, not getting your policy renewed has nothing to do with payments, only with the total number of non-weather-related claims in a 3-year period."
Guy: "Well, you can send it, but I won't deposit it."
302: "Whatever you want, man. I am legally obligated to send you this check. What you choose to do with it is your own damn decision, but unless I want to get sued, I HAVE to send it."
Guy: "uhhh...."

Jesus, people. WORK WITH ME!!!!!!!!

 

The mold thing is the biggest scam to show up in the last 10 years. If you have had mold work done on your house, or have sued an insurance company because you have mold you either. A) got taken in by somebody who was looking to make a buck off you or B) are a greedy scammer.

I saw a news special where Ed McMahon was taking up the mold fight in California and he tore his house to hell looking for mold and then was going to sue for $50 million because of the damage he had done to his house + the suffering he has been through.

Idiot...I hope CA gets a law like TX and he gets a nice $5000 check for the millions in damage he did to his home.

 

Everyone and their mother asks me for baseball cards, like I have unlimited access to some fantastic Scrooge McDuck-like vault filled with rare cards. Better yet, let me just grab one of the of the many Mickey Mantle rookie cards littering my desk.

 

Can I have one of those rookie Mickey's? Try to send me one that's well centered and has 4 sharp corners! Where do I send my SASE? And if you've got 'em - throw in a couple of Honus Wagner T206s...

I too am in software development so when their Internet is broken or their AOL (please people) 8.0 install hosed their machine, I am supposed to - sight unseen - fix their 'puter based on fuzzy, non-tech info. Also, they ask you to build a good, cheap system - I do the best I can but I tell them that the 19" flat panel is going to jack up the price of the system and that maybe their girls should just keep their 17' flat screen to do their IM on until it blows - then upgrade. But noooo - gotta be cool now. Ok - here's the price - woa...why's it so high?

I saw that SNL skit the other day with what's-his-name computer guy - LOL - No matter how nice we look on the outside, he says what we are thinking.

 

Environmental engineering specialist (need two more years experience before I can become a licensed engineer).

"Why is there smog"
"Why don't engineers do anything about the smog"
"why did they lower the speed limit?"
"I swam in Barton Creek in 1957, will I die?"
"Why are tax dollars used to cleanup at the old XXX plant?
"It ain't no hotter than it was in 1967, whats this I be hear'n bout that there glow ball warm'n?"
"why don't we just use solar power?"
"Why can't cars just use a big battery?"

 

Lynus, I feel you man! I used to work at Enterprise Rent A Car and we always got the people that were pissed at you guys. I really don't see how you guys keep your sanity dealing with them every day.

As far as me, I always used to hear:

-Do you guys rent Hummers?
-Can you cut me a deal on a Cadillac?
-That "extra insurance" is a rip-off, right?

 

Ditto for me. No one likes and insurance adjuster/appraiser. We aren't out to get you!!

People also ask me, because I am on the auto side of insurance, where they can get a paint job for $500.00.

PS - Sorry for the "rolleyes" Batman.

 

People are always asking me to model for them its so annoying...

(ROLLEYES)