Monkey Business?

1980’s BCBS Representative At Work

I remember years ago when I was a naive young salesman for BCBS working in a rural area office. I was eventually promoted to a big city office. It was a new experience for me. I noticed real fast that all the other sales reps. were involved in some sort of  “monkey business.”

They were typing up group health insurance proposals in the confines of their company paid offices (door closed of course) on behalf of competitors, pocketing commissions earned in addition to their BCBS salary. One rep. showed me his check stubs from more than one competitor and said “Bill, why don’t you do the same? It’s easy money! And, if I get fired or quit, I have a nice steady income coming in!”

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