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Silly life insurance interview yesterday

SarahinRichmondSarahinRichmond
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I applied for life insurance to supplement my policy through work and had a 45 minute phone interview yesterday (ugh). They clearly did not know how to deal with someone who had recently had a baby. Here is my favorite series of questions:

Q: Have you missed more than 5 consecutive days of work or school in the past 5 years?

A: Does maternity leave count? Then yes. I'm currently on maternity leave.

Q: What as the condition that caused you to miss work?

A: That would be having a baby

Q: Oh right. And did you see a doctor for your condition during that time? What was the date?

A: Well I delivered the baby so I guess so. That was on June 15th

Q: What was the outcome of that visit?

A: Um, I had a baby. 

Q: Was that it?

 A: Yep. That was it.

The poor interviewer was so freaked out since she had to deviate from her normal questions. If I hadn't been so annoyed that the damn interview lasted forever I would have felt bad for her. 

 

 

 

 

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Re: Silly life insurance interview yesterday

  • thatgirl84thatgirl84

    Funny..but totally understandable that you would be annoyed.

    The condition that caused you to miss work... pretty funny. If I were her I would just skip that one. I don't think any approved time off should count as missed days. She should've said No when you asked if maternity leave counted. Sounds so horribly awkward.

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  • JuneBug0611JuneBug0611 member
    DH and I just applied for life insurance too. My favorite question was (after I had said I was pregnant and had a baby in the past year), "Has your weight fluctuated in the past year?"  Ummm, yes, little bit...


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  • OctoberCAPAOctoberCAPA member

    We got supplemental life insurance while I was pregnant, and the questions then were also pretty hilarious.  Fortunately they have wide leeway for all the results for pregnant women--obviously my weight and blood pressure were different from what they would be when I'm not pregnant!  

    I thought the "have you ever smoked" question being asked about six different times was the best. 

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  • bt3701bt3701
    My disability paperwork had a question like that.... something like "What aspects of your job are you unable to do due to your disability?" I wrote "teaching." And I read it like 5 times to see if maternity leavers could skip that question... nope. 
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  • SarahinRichmondSarahinRichmond

    imageJuneBug0611:
    DH and I just applied for life insurance too. My favorite question was (after I had said I was pregnant and had a baby in the past year), "Has your weight fluctuated in the past year?"  Ummm, yes, little bit...

    They asked me this one too!

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  • kimbo1216kimbo1216 member
    BTDT!  Only I did it while pregnant.  The girl that came to do our medical exams didn't take my pee sample with her.  So they had to send someone else out to get it from me.  They tried to weigh me again.  I was like, WTH??? I don't think so.  I am very pregnant and gaining weight.  My original weight will just have to do.  It was so annoying.  Don't make me do everything over again because you didn't do it right the first time!
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  • Dani0701Dani0701 member
    LMAO!  Yep!  That's some condition you got there!

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  • kbel424kbel424
    imageSarahinRichmond:

    imageJuneBug0611:
    DH and I just applied for life insurance too. My favorite question was (after I had said I was pregnant and had a baby in the past year), "Has your weight fluctuated in the past year?"  Ummm, yes, little bit...

    They asked me this one too!

    Ya this one was my favorite question!
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