Specially especially since shadiness sometimes=late pay (or no pay).

As a matter of perspective, Aims - when large multi-national took over my company and their healthcare plan was pricier than ours, they also gave us salary bumps to cover the difference. I know that's a really extreme example of corporate decency, but just, y'know, your guy doesn't sound decent.

I know that right now you don't want to press your luck too hard, but this one just sounds like a road to future frustration and unpleasantness.

Avoid the shade! Go sunlight! Choose sunlight!

Aimee, I don't like the sound of that company at all.

I can't see the pretty Nora picture.

basks in sunlight

Can everyone see just how not on fire I am right now?

I made the "immaculate conception" joke and the nurse made some remark about knowing Jesus was coming if I peed and it came out positive. I said "yeah, I guess you don't want Jesus to end up damaged and in special ed"

Bwah!!

Out of curiousity, askye, did they take your word for it? Before my carpal tunnel surgery they refused to take my word that "I['d] had a period way more recently than I['d] had sex." Do people really lie about NGA status that often?

Can everyone see just how not on fire I am right now?

No one tick her off! Don't want to see an inner demon with smiting powers!

Do people really lie about NGA status that often?

Yes. Even my lesbian friends always have to take pregnancy tests for those types of things even when they explain sex with women only thing.

They made me sign a paper saying something to the effect that I had refused/denied to take a pregnancy test and I wouldn't hold the surgery center responsible if it turned out I was pregnant and there was damage done. At least I think that's what it said.

You have to have someone stay with you and I had Mom back there waiting until I was wheeled back, I guess maybe if there was a young woman iwth a parent and didn't want to admit she had sex she might lie.

They made me sign a paper saying something to the effect that I had refused/denied to take a pregnancy test and I wouldn't hold the surgery center responsible if it turned out I was pregnant and there was damage done.

This, at least, seems reasonable. They have documented CYA. But not insulted me by implying that I'm lying or too dumb to know. (And let's not even bring up the one that Hil [I think] had to pay for, on what I assume is not a giganto salary). Wackiness.

I have a new hero: Barbara Holland, author of The Joy of Drinking.

From today's Washington Post >[link]

Booze, she writes, is "the social glue of the human race." As soon as humans stopped wandering around looking for berries and settled down to raise crops, they started creating wine and beer and, not coincidently, civilization.