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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 05, 2021, 12:09:30 pm ---This morning I tried to phone to stop getting e-mail notices that my father can schedule a vaccine appointment (because he's already been vaccinated. Right. There is only one phone number to do that, you can't use the internet to cancel the notices, and the phone number is the same as the one you call for help scheduling an appointment. That's stupid.
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Too bad you can say, he's already been vaccinated, but I could take that appointment.
Sounds like PA is like MN in regard to inefficient websites and phones.
The worst case I experienced was the year I applied for Obamacare and accidentally marked my part-time contract job an employer. They kept me employed, but they're not an official w2 employer. If they were, they'd probably have to be involved in my Obamacare in some way, and avoiding that was the very reason the company had so many contract workers. The website lets you change your current status, but not something from the past. I tried calling, got through fairly quickly to a guy who he had no idea how to resolve the issue but would transfer me to the appropriate department. After sitting on hold for an hour I realized that for all I knew he had transferred me into oblivion. So I hung up. While deciding what to do next, I got court papers saying I had to settle my dispute with the contract company through court. I called the court number and tried to tell that person I'M NOT DISPUTING THEIR ACCOUNT -- WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE. The guy said he couldn't cancel the court thing anyway!!! Finally they did cancel it. But only after wasting that much time and money by making it essential impossible to correct errors on the state site.
Plus the website is so poorly arranged I could have done a better job mysel -- not with the technical parts, but with the writing. For example, it asks whether you're a Native American, whether you're Black, and so on. Instead of having things you could check, you had to get a dropdown menu for each one and answer "yes" or "no."
Plus the gender question only gave two options, which is so 20th century.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 05, 2021, 01:01:25 pm ---Too bad you can say, he's already been vaccinated, but I could take that appointment.
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As a matter of fact, on Friday I tried to register for the Lancaster County mass-vaccination site, and I was successful. To my surprise, on Saturday I got an e-mail that said I could schedule an appointment! I tried to do it online, but it didn't work. I more-than-half suspect there is a problem because the same e-mail address is used for my dad and for me.
Jeff Wrangler:
Last evening there was a report on our local NBC affiliate that over in Camden County, New Jersey, vaccination appointments already stretch all the way into October.
serious crayons:
Then I feel lucky -- mine is today, at my regular clinic, 15 minutes away. I know a number of people who have traveled to other parts of the state, 100+ miles, to get theirs.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 05, 2021, 01:40:41 pm ---As a matter of fact, on Friday I tried to register for the Lancaster County mass-vaccination site, and I was successful. To my surprise, on Saturday I got an e-mail that said I could schedule an appointment! I tried to do it online, but it didn't work. I more-than-half suspect there is a problem because the same e-mail address is used for my dad and for me.
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I'm sure that's what happened, because it happened with my dad. He tried to have a friend register my mom, but the friend registered my dad with my mom's email address, so when I tried to register mom with her email, I got an error message. I had to register my mom with my dad's email, and then it went through.
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