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  • 4 doctors & counting

    I want to start off by saying I like living in Norway if I look beyond the lazy police departments & crappy primary care physicians. Norway is pretty okay..

    But we’ve now lived here nearly 7 years BUT I’ve had 4 PCP’s since moving back & that’s not good odds. I’m now on my 4th “doctor” I deliberately put in quotes because she’s Fresh out of medical school.

    Since we no longer have anyone entering our home, that was fixed with a new lock in July. She kept me waiting for 35 minutes yesterday because she *thought* I was having a manic episode.

    First of all I know of no manic patients who would sit calmly in the waiting room for half an hour. They’d be lashing out at other patients & causing quite the commotion & also showing threatening behavior.

    None. That I exhibited before I saw my “doctor” but she gaslight me as soon as I came into her office. By lying to my face, when you look Right & then lie you meant what you said. She lied for pretty much the whole 30 minutes.

    Not a flattering fit considering it was only the second time I saw her. She *claimed* she was on my *side* et cetera. That’s simply called Damage Control. What ruined the relationship I was hoping to establish is that she would look Right & lie & lie & lie.

    That’s Not OkAY. Doctors should not gaslight their patients & should not lie to them. The hyppocratic oath doesn’t seem to be in use in Norway. First Do No Harm.

  • Why I quit

    For years I have been under the umbrella of the Norwegian social security administration. I didn’t realize until late Summer that all they do is shuffle you around. They create hoops you have to jump through that ends up giving you no Results.

    I realized after I applied for a job that the woman wouldn’t hire me because I was connected to them. They didn’t pay for ANY of the pre-courses I took in order to apply for grad school. Nope, zip, zilch.

    I’m applying for grad school this Winter, granting I am not trying to survive a war by then? Have I received any financial help from them in regards to the classes I took, not a penny. But they’ve shuffled me around to worthless companies that work for them that string you along like a bad boyfriend.

    I had a job “coach” who was next level of crazy Sabotage a job interview. They never contacted her back of course. When I found a place to do my practicum she couldn’t be bothered to show up at my “job” I had for 5 weeks!!

    The last place NAV sent me to was the worst of the worst. They sabotaged job interviews & asked me to “apply” for jobs I was over qualified for. My dream isn’t to work in a grocery store or spend over an hour commuting for crap pay.

    So, that’s why I quit NAV & the “company” they sent me too. I would much rather get a job on my own then through some agency that doesn’t do their job. No thanks, I will pass. That’s why I quit.

  • The invisible text & other tales of poor customer service.

    This morning we awoke to a 12 hour outage of our TV & internet. With No notification that this would occur. When I spoke with the provider for a second time he “claimed” they’d sent us a text message last Friday.

    The invisible text message that neither one of us got supposedly went out last week. Funny how we don’t have it & IF we don’t how many other people in our neighborhood didn’t get it either??

    I contacted forrbrukerådet a national hotline where you can file complaints about big brother companies that don’t do what they claim. It reminds me of when I came back from Oslo a few weeks back & had special luggage that was placed on the belt at the airport.

    I contacted the airline & they didn’t like hearing that their instructions had been ignored at the other airport. But that of course was Good customer service & not the crap I have been dealing with all day.

    I feel that they’re not the only ones that Failed to give us good customer service, as did KLM when we came back from the US in June. Leaving us without food vouchers & or lounge access for 9:45 hours in Schiphol was also crap customer service.

    They wouldn’t even allow us to board an earlier flight home & refused us an upgrade to that flight. I wasn’t impressed with them at all on either leg to the US or the flight back. It reminded me of flying in the 1990s before customer service became a thing.

    No, I feel that since the pandemic, customer service has become crap. Not just from the airlines but in other aspects as well. It’s as if companies are expecting customers to just put up with what they are given something that is unacceptable.

    Now, that society has returned to normal it’s time for companies to do the same & step up the game otherwise we start calling their competitors & drop them as a company. Why be loyal to a company that doesn’t listen to its customers?