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Post by They Adam Bradley on Apr 10, 2013 22:35:50 GMT -5
So i work for a major insurance Company that sounds alot like "Foo Hoss FOO Killed" of illinois... as a customer service advocate... aka i sit in an office and take insurance calls/ questions 10 hour a day, 4 days a week....It can be a very challenging job trying to figure out why some insurance claims havent been paid and you can deal with alot of ASSHOLES on the phones... perfect example this week
I took a call from a member who just had a baby, i did the whole "congratulations" yadda yadda, lady was super nice. She then had me look at a claim where the anesthesia provider was an out of network provider, soo because the provider was of network, THEY were billing over an extra 400.00 dollar of what if they were In network, they would have to write off...keep in mind, its the PROVIDER billing her, NOT US... So she gets mad ( understandable) saying how the dr, and hospital were in Network and she had no control over who they called for the anesthesia which is true... so i was able to adjust the claim to pay as if the provider was "in network"... the problem is, since they were out of network, we cannot force them to write off that 400.00. SHE GOT MAD
she then called the provider and got them on the line and the provider was trying to convenience this celebrity that we should pay more when in reality we pd as much as we would, all the provier had to do was NOT CHARGE her that extra 400.00 anyways, the lady then on the phone went into a big thing about how she is "pretty well known and on a reality show"..yadda yadda, they both went off on me...
come to find out her name is Alexa and is she on a reality show on the Style Network called Jerseylicious.....and she is worth 1.5 million yet she was having a fit over 400.00 and taking it out on us and not the provider billing it to her...
anyone else ever had a interaction with a celebrity? its kinda cool that i literally spent 45 mins getting yelled at by this girl, and listening to her tell me she will "go to the news cause shes famous" yet she has a cow over a small 400.00 bill...
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Post by Perd on Apr 10, 2013 23:00:47 GMT -5
Friends of mine (one of whom is a huge smartass), saw Gallagher at a county fair (admission was free). After the show, they were walking around the fairgrounds, when they spotted Gallagher sitting at a table by himself. So, my friends go over anc talk to him and eventually Gallagher asks them if they'd like an autograph. My friends say "sure", to which Gallagher replies "OK, it's ten bucks apiece". Which causes the huge smartass to laugh in his face. Gallagher got super pissed, stood up, pulled out a big wad of cash, fanned it out, and smacked him in the face with it, while yelling "You think I need your money! I have all kinds of money!".
I have my doubts about the stories validity, but they both swear it happened.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 10, 2013 23:07:39 GMT -5
Friends of mine (one of whom is a huge smartass), saw Gallagher at a county fair (admission was free). After the show, they were walking around the fairgrounds, when they spotted Gallagher sitting at a table by himself. So, my friends go over anc talk to him and eventually Gallagher asks them if they'd like an autograph. My friends say "sure", to which Gallagher replies "OK, it's ten bucks apiece". Which causes the huge smartass to laugh in his face. Gallagher got super pissed, stood up, pulled out a big wad of cash, fanned it out, and smacked him in the face with it, while yelling "You think I need your money! I have all kinds of money!". I have my doubts about the stories validity, but they both swear it happened. I can believe it. Gallagher is kind of a crazy dick.
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Post by They Adam Bradley on Apr 10, 2013 23:12:05 GMT -5
i met gallagher one time when i was about 10, only talked to him for like 2-3 mins but seemed in a super hurry
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Post by turkeysandwich on Apr 10, 2013 23:51:21 GMT -5
This didn't happen to me, but 2 of my friends told me this several years ago, and this is their side of the story.
They went to see the Wilco documentary at a small theater and saw David Copperfield and his girlfriend come in and sit down. No one bothered him while he was sitting there, but midway through the film the projector quit working and they stopped the film, so everyone was just sitting there waiting. My friend yelled out "Hey, Copperfield, use your magic to fix the projector!" Copperfield turned around and stared at him for a few seconds, then grabbed his girlfriend and left, and then a few minutes later one of the employees walked up to them and asked them to leave since they were harassing David Copperfield.
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Post by Dat Dude on Apr 11, 2013 0:04:27 GMT -5
I guess I can repost my interaction with Prince
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Apr 11, 2013 0:13:45 GMT -5
So i work for a major insurance Company that sounds alot like "Foo Hoss FOO Killed" of illinois... as a customer service advocate... aka i sit in an office and take insurance calls/ questions 10 hour a day, 4 days a week....It can be a very challenging job trying to figure out why some insurance claims havent been paid and you can deal with alot of ASSHOLES on the phones... perfect example this week I took a call from a member who just had a baby, i did the whole "congratulations" yadda yadda, lady was super nice. She then had me look at a claim where the anesthesia provider was an out of network provider, soo because the provider was of network, THEY were billing over an extra 400.00 dollar of what if they were In network, they would have to write off...keep in mind, its the PROVIDER billing her, NOT US... So she gets mad ( understandable) saying how the dr, and hospital were in Network and she had no control over who they called for the anesthesia which is true... so i was able to adjust the claim to pay as if the provider was "in network"... the problem is, since they were out of network, we cannot force them to write off that 400.00. SHE GOT MAD she then called the provider and got them on the line and the provider was trying to convenience this celebrity that we should pay more when in reality we pd as much as we would, all the provier had to do was NOT CHARGE her that extra 400.00 anyways, the lady then on the phone went into a big thing about how she is "pretty well known and on a reality show"..yadda yadda, they both went off on me... come to find out her name is Alexa and is she on a reality show on the Style Network called Jerseylicious.....and she is worth 1.5 million yet she was having a fit over 400.00 and taking it out on us and not the provider billing it to her... anyone else ever had a interaction with a celebrity? its kinda cool that i literally spent 45 mins getting yelled at by this girl, and listening to her tell me she will "go to the news cause shes famous" yet she has a cow over a small 400.00 bill... Alexa was a bit nasty, but that incident seems more like the provider's fault than anything.
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Post by mysterydriver on Apr 11, 2013 0:30:40 GMT -5
Kevin Sorbo got mad at me on Twitter because he misunderstood the message I sent to him.
His bio says "That Hercules Guy" and I replied "I see you more as that Direct to DVD Walking Tall Guy."
He apparently took it as an insult to his Direct to DVD work and replied "Those movies were very profitable. And how is your career doing?"
I still consider myself a good person for not replying "Great, because I wasn't in Meet the Spartans." I had it typed, daggone it.
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Post by BK From WV on Apr 11, 2013 1:36:31 GMT -5
He wasn't a celebrity yet but when I was in college at Marshall,I played on an intramural basketball team with the guys on my dorm floor. One game we played was against a team that had Chad Pennington(future quarterback on the NY Jets and Miami Dolphins). One of my friends was guarding Pennington and he kept shutting him down. You could tell Pennington was getting frustrated. It didn't help that my friend was also scoring on Pennington at will. Finally,after my friend stole the ball from him and scored,Pennington lost it. He grabbed the ball and threw it at my friend's head and started cursing quite loudly(Mike Rice style). Pennington's teammates tried to calm him down but he wouldn't and he ended up getting tossed from the game. He cursed the whole way out of the gym. I wasn't really shocked as the word around campus was that Pennington was kind of a jerk. I know lately he's done a lot of charity work in Huntington and in Knoxville where he is from so maybe he finally matured.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2013 1:44:45 GMT -5
Kevin Sorbo got mad at me on Twitter because he misunderstood the message I sent to him. His bio says "That Hercules Guy" and I replied "I see you more as that Direct to DVD Walking Tall Guy." He apparently took it as an insult to his Direct to DVD work and replied "Those movies were very profitable. And how is your career doing?" I still consider myself a good person for not replying "Great, because I wasn't in Meet the Spartans." I had it typed, daggone it. I guess you could say your interaction left you feeling...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2013 2:25:15 GMT -5
It's funny that after I posted in this thread, I read a post a friend made on Facebook about a bad celebrity encounter.
Apparently my friend posted on UFC fighter Nick Diaz' Facebook page, saying that he would get beat by GSP if they ever fought. So Diaz posts on there, challenging my friend (who lives in Australia) to fly to Stockton, California to fight him in his gym. He even offered to pay for the plane ticket.
So because of a negative comment on Facebook, a professionally trained fighter, got all tough guy on the internet and wanted to fight my friend. Handle criticism, bro. The whole thing feels like a drawn out way of saying "Do you even lift?"
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Post by Danimal on Apr 11, 2013 2:48:29 GMT -5
I guess I can repost my interaction with Prince Not surprising. Those heels aren't just a flamboyant fashion choice, they're to cover for him being only 5'2". He's obviously self-conscious about it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 11, 2013 3:42:14 GMT -5
Kevin Sorbo got mad at me on Twitter because he misunderstood the message I sent to him. His bio says "That Hercules Guy" and I replied "I see you more as that Direct to DVD Walking Tall Guy." He apparently took it as an insult to his Direct to DVD work and replied "Those movies were very profitable. And how is your career doing?" I still consider myself a good person for not replying "Great, because I wasn't in Meet the Spartans." I had it typed, daggone it. Which is funny, because when my dad met him, he was actually a really nice guy. Not a negative experience, per se, but Hayden Panetierre seemed kind of disinterested in interacting with fans when I saw her at a convention, just signing autographs very quickly and speeding them along. That said, it was startling how much she looked like she did on TV, since you always hear about airbrushed celebrities. She basically looks exactly like you'd expect she would, outside of maybe being slightly short.
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Post by TK The Friendly Robot on Apr 11, 2013 4:12:11 GMT -5
I guess I can repost my interaction with Prince You could have took him dude, you should have become "the guy who knocked out Prince"...such a wasted opportunity
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Post by They Adam Bradley on Apr 11, 2013 20:39:01 GMT -5
and ya, it was mostly on the provider! they were the ones billing alexa the additonal amnt, but the provider was trying to convince alexa that we should PAY MORE.. when we already pd at the in network level... long story short, i got an email the other day that said eventually the provider ended up writing off that amnt... what a waist of time!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2013 21:27:50 GMT -5
You are aware if your bosses find out you wrote this on a public forum, you will be fired.
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 12, 2013 9:46:32 GMT -5
Goldberg spit a loogie on me after a match because I said Disco Inferno should have won. I still stand by my statement!
Somebody from like 8 rows back defended my honor by peggin him with a halffull water bottle in the head. Good times.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Apr 12, 2013 10:05:44 GMT -5
It's funny that after I posted in this thread, I read a post a friend made on Facebook about a bad celebrity encounter. Apparently my friend posted on UFC fighter Nick Diaz' Facebook page, saying that he would get beat by GSP if they ever fought. So Diaz posts on there, challenging my friend (who lives in Australia) to fly to Stockton, California to fight him in his gym. He even offered to pay for the plane ticket. So because of a negative comment on Facebook, a professionally trained fighter, got all tough guy on the internet and wanted to fight my friend. Handle criticism, bro. The whole thing feels like a drawn out way of saying "Do you even lift?" To be fair, Diaz is pretty crazy.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Apr 12, 2013 10:13:42 GMT -5
UFC fighter Rich Franklin's wife was my sophomore English teacher in high school.
He visited after winning whatever belt he had. My friend Garrett and I always thought the fight that "made him" against Shamrock looked fake and the shot that took Ken down didn't connect.
We were kids, so nothing happened, but when Garrett said "Good job beating someone who actually got hit" and I laughed, you could tell if we were older and not in a school he would have tried to fight us. His eyes got all crazy. He then went back to having teenage girls fawn over him.
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Post by Fearless The Tank on Apr 12, 2013 10:34:46 GMT -5
my brother has personal vendettas against Ludacris and Jonah Hill. Ludacris because he told my brother "nah I'm not taking any f***ing pictures" when my brother asked for a picture at a public appearance. Jonah Hill is more my brothers fault. He saw Jonah Hill, couldn't remember his name, so says "Hey, its the fay guy from Superbad" So Jonah Hill stared down my brother and snubbed him.
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