I don't like it one bit

The fact that this doctor's office, who I just called today to schedule a new patient exam, got my identifying information from my social security number. I thought for a moment to give them a fake one (I do that, because they simply don't take no for an answer when they ask for your social, and technically I don't THINK you have to provide it to them but I'm not 100% sure on that I need to find out) because I don't want them having my social security number. They don't need it. So, she asks me if I am so-and-so after I gave it to her. Well, yea, I told her my name on the phone before I gave my number out. Is your birthday 10/7/69. Um, yea, how'd you know THAT? That's when she told me I was in the Memorial Health System. That if I saw another person in that system I would be in there.

Um. I haven't seen a 'real doctor' since I've been here.

Then she asks me if my address is yadda yadda and my phone number is (insert digits).

Um. Yea. All current information. I was NOT happy she brought that up with the click of a few keys.

Well, she says, I OBVIOUSLY must have seen someone in the system or I wouldn't be in there.

Uh. No.

Well then I must have scheduled an appointment and never showed up.

Um, no. I don't do that shit.

I was going to the health clinic (which I am EXTREMELY pissed over and that will be another post I"m SURE). But she didn't say if that would indicate I was in the system for that reason.

So.......I dont plan on giving out my social unless it's a bank or a job. And I hesitate to do even THAT.

I know they can steal information, online or off. But I don't like passing out my social to any Tom, Dick, or Harry, because "that's how we put you in our system." Well, they better find another way to list me in the system because I have already had my numbers stolen from computer databases (that were OH SO SECURE) in the past, actually pretty recent.

It was a credit card actually. I get a new one in the mail. Telling me that my old card account number is closed because it was reported stolen.

Stolen? Excuse me? I never reported it stolen.

So I look up my account.

No balance. Good.

Ok so I call the card company to activate my new account number and ask them why I had to get a new card.

"Well it was reported stolen"

Um lady I didn't report it stolen. So WHY do I have a new card? Are there charges on my old account?

"Any charges you have on your old account will be moved to the new one."

LADY you aren't listening to me. I don't HAVE charges on my account. So if I DO have charges they are NOT MINE> You just told me the account number was stolen. So, are there charges on my account? Who reported my card stolen?

"Let me look into your account"

::scratchy music playing, why don't they realize the damn music you can barely hear over all the damn scratching::

"Well your account number was stolen along with several others from an online database"

Excuse me? YOUR database?

She didn't say.

Now I have shopped online with that card but it's been at least six months, maybe a year since I haven't used this card in a while.

Either way, I may have to stop doing the online shit. I do all my bill paying online. I do shop online. It is just so much easier.

But damn they might have to start waiting on my mailed and stamped check.......

I just do not like the fact that the doctor's office can pull up my information with those 9 digits.

I have been fighting with the payroll company to remove my social from my paycheck. I've had friends where their check stubs were stolen and their social security number was on it.

Now I've had companies (like my newly reinstated insurance company, speaking of which, there is a month that I wasn't covered yet I was still paying for this!) change the card number from my social security number to another number. So that my social wasn't on the card. Now, I like that scenario......