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Mar. 18th, 2021 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranSkipped updating for a couple days, because I basically was only at my hotel room to sleep.
Day 3 at the Convention Center was spent briefly shadowing one of the many many National Guard who are doing registration, i.e. taking down your insurance info and making sure your name, phone, email, etc are accurate in the system, and then marking up your paperwork to indicate whether or not you're getting your 2nd dose and if you need to visit a nurse for a consultation due to allergies or other potential issues. 99.9% of the time, the worst result from the consultation is needing to wait 30 minutes instead of 15 after your shot, in which case you get a pink sticker with the time you can leave instead of a green sticker from the vaccinator. After about 1/2 hour of shadowing, he let me take the keyboard, and I caught on fast enough to give him a relatively boring day.
Figuring out the insurance was easily the worst part — we'd ask people for their insurance cards and then have to search for their exact insurance plan, enter in their insurance ID and maybe group number, and pray to the digital gods that the insurance would be able to find it and sent back a message of, "Yes, this person is insured by [insert company here]." This did absolutely nothing to dissuade me from my opinion that the American health insurance system is a hot mess of a disaster zone.
Then I spent two days doing "wayfinding," looking at the paperwork that had been marked up by registration, and directing people where to go from there, whether to a nurse, or whether to wait in line for a vaccine. Yesterday was relatively chill, but today required some serious crowd wrangling, since people were coming through registration faster than they were getting vaccinated, and the lines to get vaccinated were backing up something horrible. Fortunately(?) they actually stopped bringing people onto the floor for a bit because we were short staffed enough that vaccine wasn't getting out to the people giving the jabs, and during that pause, the vaccine lines went down. But towards the end of the day, one of the three vaccine locations goes down, and when that heppened, the lines started stretching all the way into the (thankfully empty at that point) registration areas, and we were kept a bit late helping people navigate that.
I don't mind wayfinding as a task, but the big downside is that you're standing in one place on a concrete floor for the vast majority of the 7 hours the site is open, plus about 1/2 hour on either end, and that's just murder on your legs. I'd much rather something where I'm walking around or something where I'm sitting.
Alas, the wayfinding lead thinks I'm "one of the most valuable members of the team" and is probably going to continue to request me, because I'll do things like give people their breaks without being told.
And in out-of-work things, I'm definitely meeting a LOT of people from outside my sub-agency, and I also went to my aunt and uncle's for dinner last night, along with my cousin and her family. Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin are all fully vaccinated, I'm 2 weeks past my first dose, and cousin's spouse and son haven't been in contact with anyone outside the family bubble for at least 10 days, so we figured it's safe. (Uncle was a doctor before retiring, and Cousin works for a health organization, so I figure they especially have good judgement on this). Cousin's son was THRILLED to see me again, as the last time I saw him in August 2019 I established myself as the Cool Older Cousin Who Knows About Video Games And Star Wars. He introduced me to Fortnite (not my jam) and also Yoshi's Crafted World (very much my jam), and I showed him a bit of my Kamen Rider video game.
Tomorrow is a Teams meeting for us folks on USDA vaccine duty in order to go over some of the paperwork we need to submit, and then the rest of the day will be for paperwork and home office catchup. I'm looking forward to a day off my feet. And tentative word is Saturday is a day off for those of us who were at the airport last Saturday, which I am not going to argue with.
....shoot, I need to do laundry tonight. Better get on that.
Day 3 at the Convention Center was spent briefly shadowing one of the many many National Guard who are doing registration, i.e. taking down your insurance info and making sure your name, phone, email, etc are accurate in the system, and then marking up your paperwork to indicate whether or not you're getting your 2nd dose and if you need to visit a nurse for a consultation due to allergies or other potential issues. 99.9% of the time, the worst result from the consultation is needing to wait 30 minutes instead of 15 after your shot, in which case you get a pink sticker with the time you can leave instead of a green sticker from the vaccinator. After about 1/2 hour of shadowing, he let me take the keyboard, and I caught on fast enough to give him a relatively boring day.
Figuring out the insurance was easily the worst part — we'd ask people for their insurance cards and then have to search for their exact insurance plan, enter in their insurance ID and maybe group number, and pray to the digital gods that the insurance would be able to find it and sent back a message of, "Yes, this person is insured by [insert company here]." This did absolutely nothing to dissuade me from my opinion that the American health insurance system is a hot mess of a disaster zone.
Then I spent two days doing "wayfinding," looking at the paperwork that had been marked up by registration, and directing people where to go from there, whether to a nurse, or whether to wait in line for a vaccine. Yesterday was relatively chill, but today required some serious crowd wrangling, since people were coming through registration faster than they were getting vaccinated, and the lines to get vaccinated were backing up something horrible. Fortunately(?) they actually stopped bringing people onto the floor for a bit because we were short staffed enough that vaccine wasn't getting out to the people giving the jabs, and during that pause, the vaccine lines went down. But towards the end of the day, one of the three vaccine locations goes down, and when that heppened, the lines started stretching all the way into the (thankfully empty at that point) registration areas, and we were kept a bit late helping people navigate that.
I don't mind wayfinding as a task, but the big downside is that you're standing in one place on a concrete floor for the vast majority of the 7 hours the site is open, plus about 1/2 hour on either end, and that's just murder on your legs. I'd much rather something where I'm walking around or something where I'm sitting.
Alas, the wayfinding lead thinks I'm "one of the most valuable members of the team" and is probably going to continue to request me, because I'll do things like give people their breaks without being told.
And in out-of-work things, I'm definitely meeting a LOT of people from outside my sub-agency, and I also went to my aunt and uncle's for dinner last night, along with my cousin and her family. Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin are all fully vaccinated, I'm 2 weeks past my first dose, and cousin's spouse and son haven't been in contact with anyone outside the family bubble for at least 10 days, so we figured it's safe. (Uncle was a doctor before retiring, and Cousin works for a health organization, so I figure they especially have good judgement on this). Cousin's son was THRILLED to see me again, as the last time I saw him in August 2019 I established myself as the Cool Older Cousin Who Knows About Video Games And Star Wars. He introduced me to Fortnite (not my jam) and also Yoshi's Crafted World (very much my jam), and I showed him a bit of my Kamen Rider video game.
Tomorrow is a Teams meeting for us folks on USDA vaccine duty in order to go over some of the paperwork we need to submit, and then the rest of the day will be for paperwork and home office catchup. I'm looking forward to a day off my feet. And tentative word is Saturday is a day off for those of us who were at the airport last Saturday, which I am not going to argue with.
....shoot, I need to do laundry tonight. Better get on that.
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Date: 2021-03-28 06:12 am (UTC)