Thursday, December 24, 2015

There's always ONE guy

I've done several Flu Shot Clinics now over the years, and for the most part they go pretty smooth... but there is something that happens at every clinic...

What we do is arrange to go to a small business of 40+ employees and line them all up and shoot 'em. We give each employee a consent form and have them fill it out and then line up. It seems reasonable on our end, but at every clinic there is always ONE guy... 

The ONE guy I'm talking about leaves out the pertinent information on the consent form. Oh, something like a correct address or a good phone number. The reason is always the same, they don't have active insurance coverage and want to just blend in with the herd and get a free flu shot. Somehow it never occurs to them that we're at the place they work and can TRACK THEM DOWN.

This year a guy not only wrote down insurance that expired in 2011, he ALSO wrote down a bogus date of birth. Yeah, like we're just not going to be able to figure that out. Good try.

I wonder what the employers think when we call them and explain the situation to them... 

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