retelltax
/ˌriːtelˈtæks/nounVerified NewThe compounding cost, in time and composure, of having to re-narrate one's case from the beginning to every new agent in a bureaucracy.
Each phone-tree transfer resets the record: name, date of birth, the whole story, again. By the third retelling the account of the illness itself starts to fray. Retelltax is the toll charged for not having a single continuous listener.
Etym. — retell + tax — a levy paid in narration, on the model of the "time tax."
Rel. — billfog
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