Taking a short break, then get to work on daughter's drapes.
After work, went to get a steel barrel. Man who sells them doesn't deliver. He's a little older and sells the barrels from home. He said he'll have plastic barrels later in the week. I was able to get the barrel in the back of the car with the hatch open, then used a ratchet strap to hold the hatch down.
So, that's an extra and important step toward getting the rocket stove built. It needs the barrel for the secondary combustion chamber.
Not a bad day for work. A lot of strange cases which took some research and critical thinking. Not a bad thing. It was busy in the morning and I ended the day with 88 cases. That equals an extra two hours of pay with no extra time worked.
The company is still focusing all OT available to the new health plans and written cases. Okay, not a problem. I get to sleep longer and as long as I can make extra cases in my regular time, they can keep going that way until the system crashes. What would make more sense would be offering more money per case for those plans and/or a special crew to do outgoing calls. However, I'm expecting before that they will require all reviewers to be certified in the new plans. Until incomes decrease and they lose a huge number of people. I could be wrong but they have been pushing this approach too much. The whole thing started with non-clinical people making outgoing calls and then forcing the cases on clinical reviewers without informing them it was an outgoing call, the person at the office being unprepared and often angry. So, that didn't work. I'm sure some people would be willing to do it if offered hourly pay but that's not happening yet. Lots of options for this approach which would work but it will have to reach critical mass before those options are utilized. I've seen administrative let projects like this too many times in my life and they always follow the exact same predictable pattern.
I hate when problems happen which are completely predictable but still happen.
After work, went to get a steel barrel. Man who sells them doesn't deliver. He's a little older and sells the barrels from home. He said he'll have plastic barrels later in the week. I was able to get the barrel in the back of the car with the hatch open, then used a ratchet strap to hold the hatch down.
So, that's an extra and important step toward getting the rocket stove built. It needs the barrel for the secondary combustion chamber.
Not a bad day for work. A lot of strange cases which took some research and critical thinking. Not a bad thing. It was busy in the morning and I ended the day with 88 cases. That equals an extra two hours of pay with no extra time worked.
The company is still focusing all OT available to the new health plans and written cases. Okay, not a problem. I get to sleep longer and as long as I can make extra cases in my regular time, they can keep going that way until the system crashes. What would make more sense would be offering more money per case for those plans and/or a special crew to do outgoing calls. However, I'm expecting before that they will require all reviewers to be certified in the new plans. Until incomes decrease and they lose a huge number of people. I could be wrong but they have been pushing this approach too much. The whole thing started with non-clinical people making outgoing calls and then forcing the cases on clinical reviewers without informing them it was an outgoing call, the person at the office being unprepared and often angry. So, that didn't work. I'm sure some people would be willing to do it if offered hourly pay but that's not happening yet. Lots of options for this approach which would work but it will have to reach critical mass before those options are utilized. I've seen administrative let projects like this too many times in my life and they always follow the exact same predictable pattern.
I hate when problems happen which are completely predictable but still happen.
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