What Annoyed You Today? (5 Viewers)
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Extremely busy the past few days.....didn't get on the forum....
Crimea_River
Marshal
Condolences Chris.
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
You and yours are in my prayers.
Very sad to hear Chris, my condolences man....
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
That just blows, my deepest sympathy to your mom.
Back to work tomorrow.....
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
- 4,167
- Jun 25, 2013
This.
Plus the trains I travel to work in are being unreliable, not surprising considering that the locomotives predate the Reagan administration and the cars have had a history of being ridden hard and put away wet.
mikewint
Captain
Work?? Work?? Work? What pray tell Sir be that??? Let me thinketh for a bit it sounds familiar....
Oh yea, I remember now...it's what they pay me NOT to do!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Greyhound bus. Had a bus ticket for my son to return to University from the airport he lands at. It was the last bus of that day. Of course they left a message on my phone saying the bus was cancelled and to call customer service. Called 4 times through a lousy button option menu (no return option) to get a real person. Now I'm dealing with someone with a heavy accent asking where my son was "living from". It took me a few seconds to realize she meant "leaving from" and then she only would offer a travel voucher as the ticket was non-refundable. Somehow this was all my fault and I wasn't entitled to a refund. 29 minutes of back and forth finally got me a refund - to be MAILED as a cheque despite booking with my credit card on line!!!!!
First and last time I'm using this "service".
First and last time I'm using this "service".
mikewint
Captain
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
That's exactly what it's like trying to get answers from the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK !!
mikewint
Captain
If it's anything like the Dept of Veterans Affairs here in the USofA those would only be the prologue
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Yep ! Transferred, on average, four times, to different parts of the country, after listening to the same bl**dy piece of Mozart for around 45 minutes, only to be told I need to 'phone a different Department, which is the same bl**dy Department contacted in the first place, and then having to repeat everyhting yst again !!
Civil Servants ?
No use to either man or beast !
Civil Servants ?
No use to either man or beast !
Speak for yourself, Mike. Our VA center here in Vermont is friendly, helpful, staffed with REAL PEOPLE, and about as non-bureaucratic as a government agency can get. I've seen some doozies in my travels, but this one's a winner!
Cheers,
Wes
mikewint
Captain
That is absolutely great, count yourself very lucky
More than 200 veterans have died while waiting for medical care at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix, two years after the facility was at the center of a scandal in which patient records were altered to hide the length of their waiting period.
In a report released Tuesday, the VA Inspector General's office (OIG) found that 215 deceased patients had open specialist consultation appointments at the Phoenix facility on the day they died. The report also found that one veteran never received an appointment for a cardiology exam "that could have prompted further definitive testing and interventions that could have forestalled his death."
The problem was even worse at the Los Angeles VA hospital, CBS News correspondent Melissa Villarreal reports.
A new report by the VA inspector general shows 43 percent of the 225 patients who died between October 2014 and August 2015 at the Los Angeles VA were waiting for appointments or tests that they never received
The VA's inspector general found that out of about 800,000 records stalled in the agency's system for managing health care enrollment, there were more than 307,000 records that belonged to veterans who had died months or years in the past. The inspector general said due to limitations in the system's data, the number of records did not necessarily represent veterans actively seeking enrollment in VA health care.
In a response to a request by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' to investigate a whistleblower's allegations of mismanagement at the VA's Health Eligibility Center, the inspector general also found VA staffers incorrectly marked unprocessed applications and may have deleted 10,000 or more records in the last five years. In one case, a veteran who applied for VA care in 1998 was placed in "pending" status for 14 years. Another veteran who passed away in 1988 was found to have an unprocessed record lingering since 2014.
More than 200 veterans have died while waiting for medical care at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix, two years after the facility was at the center of a scandal in which patient records were altered to hide the length of their waiting period.
In a report released Tuesday, the VA Inspector General's office (OIG) found that 215 deceased patients had open specialist consultation appointments at the Phoenix facility on the day they died. The report also found that one veteran never received an appointment for a cardiology exam "that could have prompted further definitive testing and interventions that could have forestalled his death."
The problem was even worse at the Los Angeles VA hospital, CBS News correspondent Melissa Villarreal reports.
A new report by the VA inspector general shows 43 percent of the 225 patients who died between October 2014 and August 2015 at the Los Angeles VA were waiting for appointments or tests that they never received
The VA's inspector general found that out of about 800,000 records stalled in the agency's system for managing health care enrollment, there were more than 307,000 records that belonged to veterans who had died months or years in the past. The inspector general said due to limitations in the system's data, the number of records did not necessarily represent veterans actively seeking enrollment in VA health care.
In a response to a request by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' to investigate a whistleblower's allegations of mismanagement at the VA's Health Eligibility Center, the inspector general also found VA staffers incorrectly marked unprocessed applications and may have deleted 10,000 or more records in the last five years. In one case, a veteran who applied for VA care in 1998 was placed in "pending" status for 14 years. Another veteran who passed away in 1988 was found to have an unprocessed record lingering since 2014.
That sucks Mike....
mikewint
Captain
Wayne, don't know how Oz treated its Vietnam Vets but I was having some drinks with an old lifer Sargent. I was going on and on about all the things I was going to do using my Army benefits when I returned to the world. I will always remember how he looked at me, laughed, reached into a pocket and pulled out a condom. "Son, you see this, know what you do with it after you use it? Son that's exactly how the Army's going to do you". Truer words were never spoken.
Don't know the answer to our vets Mike, but I suspect not all were treated with the respect they should have....
