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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Has anyone else had the experience of their boss handing them a set of application forms for his (the boss) and his wife's Medicare Supplemental insurance policies - and being expected to fill them out? Because the boss is apparently unable to read & understand questions on the forms such as:
"Fill in the boxes with the information EXACTLY as it appears on your Medicare card."
[I think the wording on these forms are targeted to a 4th grade reading level.]
I was SO tempted to check the boxes for all those nasty, expensive diseases in the medical history section.
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Nope, but I was once handed an entire application (incl. essay, mind you) for a 17-y.o. boy, to attend the University of Spoiled Children (USC in CAL, for anyone that hasn't had the,. uh, pleasure), and required to fill it out. Not merely complete the application, mind you, but ensure that he got IN. You just don't know the dark thoughts I entertained about that damn essay...
TBF, this was...ye gods. 1979? 80? And I'd just started working for this guy. He was still attempting to delegate what he construed as secretarial-type tasks to me, cuz, hey, I was the GIRL in the office. LOL.
(Oh, yeah...the kid got in. My work also got him in to several Ivy League schools. What slays me is that none of them noticed that I'd used the SAME essay I'd used, only a few short years <okay, slightly more than that> before, when I'd applied to and been accepted by, those same schools. It's not plagiarism if you're plagiarizing yourself, right?)
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