Alright, so one of the benefits I signed up for for this year is legal services. I've been looking at my future and, well, a time in which I won't be on this temporal plane and I think I need to plan things. What those things are, I don't know. I don't have much, and yet I've been told that I should get my affairs in order, however meager that may be. And before even that, I should draw up a will and living will, in case something bad happens to me.
It is for those reasons that I signed up for this benefit, even though I doubt many people at the company did the same. And procrastinating me, I finally got around to doing it around Thanksgiving. I knew the back of my mind there's a possibility this was going to take some time, and yet I still waited until the end of the year. And I did not pay for legal for next year.
My first call to my HR hotline gave me a list of law firms that contract through my benefits. It just so happens that one is in the highrise as my therapist, so I left a message for him. He voicemails me back, and I finally get him. And I get him at the wrong time -- he only has a couple minutes for me.
OK. I tell him my spiel, and he answers back, quickly, that the next thing I have to do is give him these numbers that the HR department e-mailed me. And with that I thanked him and hung up. He was a busy man. He gave me the impression that he didn't even have time for a goodbye, so I didn't bid him goodbye.
Shit, man, if he doesn't have time for a quick call from me, how is he going to treat me and my five-figure estate, or listen to me while I fumble around gathering my thoughts about what I want to happen if I'm incapacitated due to an accident. Granted, it doesn't help that I don't know how these things go. (It didn't help either that the phone cut off in the middle of my call.) But I don't like to be shoved out of a call like I was. He could be smart as a whip, and everything could go smoothly (I just left him a message with the numbers he needed). But I don't know if I like to be treated this way.
Well, I sort-of committed to him already. Maybe I'll take another step, see where it goes. But it may not matter. He told me that he will give me time slots in which I can come in, and then he needs a week to draft the documents, then I sign. Add Christmastime, and there's a very good chance this doesn't get done before the New Year, in which case I would then have to pay for his services, and I don't want to. In other words, there's a chance all of this is for naught. And boy, this guy will really be short with me then!
It is for those reasons that I signed up for this benefit, even though I doubt many people at the company did the same. And procrastinating me, I finally got around to doing it around Thanksgiving. I knew the back of my mind there's a possibility this was going to take some time, and yet I still waited until the end of the year. And I did not pay for legal for next year.
My first call to my HR hotline gave me a list of law firms that contract through my benefits. It just so happens that one is in the highrise as my therapist, so I left a message for him. He voicemails me back, and I finally get him. And I get him at the wrong time -- he only has a couple minutes for me.
OK. I tell him my spiel, and he answers back, quickly, that the next thing I have to do is give him these numbers that the HR department e-mailed me. And with that I thanked him and hung up. He was a busy man. He gave me the impression that he didn't even have time for a goodbye, so I didn't bid him goodbye.
Shit, man, if he doesn't have time for a quick call from me, how is he going to treat me and my five-figure estate, or listen to me while I fumble around gathering my thoughts about what I want to happen if I'm incapacitated due to an accident. Granted, it doesn't help that I don't know how these things go. (It didn't help either that the phone cut off in the middle of my call.) But I don't like to be shoved out of a call like I was. He could be smart as a whip, and everything could go smoothly (I just left him a message with the numbers he needed). But I don't know if I like to be treated this way.
Well, I sort-of committed to him already. Maybe I'll take another step, see where it goes. But it may not matter. He told me that he will give me time slots in which I can come in, and then he needs a week to draft the documents, then I sign. Add Christmastime, and there's a very good chance this doesn't get done before the New Year, in which case I would then have to pay for his services, and I don't want to. In other words, there's a chance all of this is for naught. And boy, this guy will really be short with me then!
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