Bureaucracy is the price we pay for impartiality
2021-Jun-07, Monday 21:21![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Not sure "politics" is the most appropriate tag on here, but.
On Friday morning I went downtown to go pick up a birth certificate for Laila, since I'm changing over my work insurance to include her and therefore I need to prove to the insurance company that I'm not trying to run a payment scam on non-existent patients in cahoots with a doctor or something. I wasn't expecting it to be a particularly onerous activity, and it wasn't...but it certainly took a long time! When I got there, there was a line extending about halfway down the block, so I went to stand in it. When I finally got to the door, I was let into the Vital Records line that snaked around the inside of the building, and then when I got to the door of the Vital Records office they let me in to the third line inside for vital-records-only activities. All in all it took me about an hour and a half to get through all the lines, though I was cheered by the couples waiting to get their marriage licenses. One of them had matching T-shirts!
The comforting thing is that once I actually got to the desk, actually getting my birth certificate took five minutes, so the problem was the sheer number of people needing assistance, not any deficiencies on the part of the workers. I had two copies printed, took the L home, and![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee took a well-deserved nap.
Today, we went forsashagee's post-birth checkup. I originally expected to stay at home with Laila, but last night was rough so she wanted me to come with her. Surprisingly they let me come too and stay in the exam room, so I kept Laila distracted while the nurses looked sashagee over. She got a clean bill--not totally healed, but everything is healing up nicely! Hopefully soon she'll be back to 💯!
On Friday morning I went downtown to go pick up a birth certificate for Laila, since I'm changing over my work insurance to include her and therefore I need to prove to the insurance company that I'm not trying to run a payment scam on non-existent patients in cahoots with a doctor or something. I wasn't expecting it to be a particularly onerous activity, and it wasn't...but it certainly took a long time! When I got there, there was a line extending about halfway down the block, so I went to stand in it. When I finally got to the door, I was let into the Vital Records line that snaked around the inside of the building, and then when I got to the door of the Vital Records office they let me in to the third line inside for vital-records-only activities. All in all it took me about an hour and a half to get through all the lines, though I was cheered by the couples waiting to get their marriage licenses. One of them had matching T-shirts!
The comforting thing is that once I actually got to the desk, actually getting my birth certificate took five minutes, so the problem was the sheer number of people needing assistance, not any deficiencies on the part of the workers. I had two copies printed, took the L home, and
sashagee took a well-deserved nap.Today, we went for
sashagee's post-birth checkup. I originally expected to stay at home with Laila, but last night was rough so she wanted me to come with her. Surprisingly they let me come too and stay in the exam room, so I kept Laila distracted while the nurses looked sashagee over. She got a clean bill--not totally healed, but everything is healing up nicely! Hopefully soon she'll be back to 💯!
