Comedian Jeff Foxworthy is known for his redneck humor, including starting a run of jokes with the preamble, “You know if you’re a redneck if …”
No comedian will achieve mainstream popularity with a run of claim adjuster jokes. You’re talking about a small, niche audience here. Nevertheless, perhaps we can — a la’ Foxworthy — conjure up some thoughts about what makes us in the loss adjusting profession unique.
You May be a claims professional if . . .
- You reach for your wallet just to make sure it’s still there when you hear a claimant say, “I only want what’s coming to me ….”
- You read about a spectacular and tragic accident in your local newspaper or see it on TV and say aloud, “Wow – that’s gonna’ be a big claim!”
- You may be an independent adjuster if you scan The Weather Channel for emerging tropical storms in the Caribbean and yell, “COME ON, BABY!!”
- You know that Mary Carter is not Jimmy’s sister.
- Your car sports a bumper sticker that reads, “Adjusters get no release.”
- You know that a body shop has nothing to do with a massage parlor.
- You think Flo on those Progressive commercials is hot.
- You know that a frame-stratightener is not found inside an optician’s shop.
- You can speak for twenty minutes straight on the pro’s and con’s of aftermarket parts.
- You can use the word “betterment” with a straight face.
Finally, you may be a claims adjuster if . . . you post a blog entry with examples of “adjuster humor.”
Guilty as charged.
Careful, now. You are going to ruin the myth that claims adjusters have no sense of humor.
“Adjuster humor” — an oxymoron??
I have no idea what you are talking about with the Weather Channel comment….
I have no idea who I had in mind when I wrote that. (Not …) 🙂
You know you are a claims adjuster when you follow someone into a revolving door and you come out ahead of them.