Worst Invention Ever – Fax Machines
OK.. I admit, nuclear weapons, fire-proof matches, solar-powered flashlight and the microwave bacon maker probably tops the list.. but Fax Machines are amongst one of the WORST invention.. EVER!
Don’t get me wrong, fax machines can be very useful. Too lazy to go get a form from someone? Have it fax over! And there was a time when you can’t just log on to get any information you needed, you would had it fax to you. Bank rate sheets, Insurance quotes… the possibility was limitless. Hell, the fax machine was the first step in the “beaming” technology we saw on Star Trek. Beam me up, Scotty!
But with great power, comes great responsibilities. Mix that with the number of idiotic people we have in our society, and yes, we have the recipe for drama.
So when a patient wants to see a doctor here, they fax their information to us. Some time this “information” can be 50+ pages, which will hog up 30 minutes of the fax machine. We get about 50 or so requests a day. On top of that, we have prescription request, note from other doctors’ offices or labs on existing patients, personal faxes for our 30 some odd doctors and their assistants, outgoing faxes, penny stock alerts and 99 dollars Cancun trips! We use up around 3 reams of paper a day, just on faxes.
No to mention, everyone and their mother uses the fax machine and grabs paper as they please. Thing usually get to where it is suppose to go...in due time... but in rare occasions, things gets misplaced. But we will get back to this in a bit.
Every day, we have patients calling us, asking if we have received their records. Some we have. .some we haven’t. They acted as if we are lying.. Look, lady, just because YOUR doctor said they faxed it… doesn’t mean they did.
And even if they did.. do they have a confirmation..
and even if they have a confirmation, if I don’t have it in my hand.. I don’t have it
I really don’t care you faxed it 800 times.. if I don’t have it.. I don’t have it.
Why do people assume that just because it was fax, and that they have confirmation, automatically we have received it? I could be your fault (wrong number, perhaps), our fault (misplacement), the fax machines fault or just an act of god… does it really take THAT much effort to re-fax it. Stop thinking that just because you feed it thru the fax machine, it’s a done deal. Idiots!
P.S. I admit.. My job here is to take all faxes that comes in, and automatically feed it to the shredder …
Don’t get me wrong, fax machines can be very useful. Too lazy to go get a form from someone? Have it fax over! And there was a time when you can’t just log on to get any information you needed, you would had it fax to you. Bank rate sheets, Insurance quotes… the possibility was limitless. Hell, the fax machine was the first step in the “beaming” technology we saw on Star Trek. Beam me up, Scotty!
But with great power, comes great responsibilities. Mix that with the number of idiotic people we have in our society, and yes, we have the recipe for drama.
So when a patient wants to see a doctor here, they fax their information to us. Some time this “information” can be 50+ pages, which will hog up 30 minutes of the fax machine. We get about 50 or so requests a day. On top of that, we have prescription request, note from other doctors’ offices or labs on existing patients, personal faxes for our 30 some odd doctors and their assistants, outgoing faxes, penny stock alerts and 99 dollars Cancun trips! We use up around 3 reams of paper a day, just on faxes.
No to mention, everyone and their mother uses the fax machine and grabs paper as they please. Thing usually get to where it is suppose to go...in due time... but in rare occasions, things gets misplaced. But we will get back to this in a bit.
Every day, we have patients calling us, asking if we have received their records. Some we have. .some we haven’t. They acted as if we are lying.. Look, lady, just because YOUR doctor said they faxed it… doesn’t mean they did.
And even if they did.. do they have a confirmation..
and even if they have a confirmation, if I don’t have it in my hand.. I don’t have it
I really don’t care you faxed it 800 times.. if I don’t have it.. I don’t have it.
Why do people assume that just because it was fax, and that they have confirmation, automatically we have received it? I could be your fault (wrong number, perhaps), our fault (misplacement), the fax machines fault or just an act of god… does it really take THAT much effort to re-fax it. Stop thinking that just because you feed it thru the fax machine, it’s a done deal. Idiots!
P.S. I admit.. My job here is to take all faxes that comes in, and automatically feed it to the shredder …
posted by The World Against Me at 11:09 AM
3 Comments:
You vs. the fax machine, why dont you just "accidentally" break it?
Great idea.. problem is, people still thing the fax machine is working.. so the same people will be calling in a few days, asking if we received their information.. of course in this case we didn't but they will STILL insist that we did..
All I can say is this:
I've been on every side of the fax situation, seen every facet. Faxes are evil, and that's all there is to it.
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