nothing's gonna stop the flow

(title key ~ think folk implosion)



Sorry, that's not my fan mail. They're leg bills. I receive a small stack each week. I used to open them and sort them by procedure, doctor or hospital. I even called every time I got a bill to inform them that my Medi Cal benefits were pending. Now I just sort them by size and color.

Choose your own metaphor.

a ton of bricks


a tidal wave


County Patient Billing Inquiry Unit:

"If you have received a bill & have Medi Cal benefits or have applied for Medi Cal benefits and not yet been approved press one now?"

doot

"If you have applied for Medi Cal benefits but your case has not yet been approved we are unable to stop any bills you may be receiving. As soon as your case is approved and your Medi Cal benefits identification card received, please provide the identification card number and issue date to the hospital staff. You will continue to receive bills until that information is received."

Until then, my box of redundancy will continue to grow.

The sheer volume of paper this place must generate on a monthly basis is staggering. No wonder I see an industrial shredder truck outside the hospital all the time. I only pray the envelope stuffing is automated. No man or beast deserves that fate.

"Mail Room Orienter: You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green voucher, oversize a yellow voucher, parcel size a maroon voucher. Wrong color voucher and they dock you! 6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck. Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you! This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you!"
~ Hudsucker Proxy