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The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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The fax machine we had in the office would convert the incoming faxes to email for us. Maybe that's a security violation for them but I find it difficult to believe they don't have some sort of all digital receipt system

While I refuse to work for the govt (my soul would rot), I have family and close friends that do, and the this story (w possibly exaggerated dialogue) is entirely believable.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

#23
Whenever I read stories like this about how hard it is for US people to keep getting the little they've been getting I think of people on the other side. It takes an evil compliance to be the Karen in this article. Zero empathy, zero compassion, you're a row in a spreadsheet. If they'd start caring a little and standing up to what is very obviously wrong, the US would be a much different place. Apply that same logic to "the deep state", military men, etc. It's pretty crazy how much of their situation is their own making, yet they'll happily blame the other side.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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post #6

I’m impressed the author was able to learn and handle all the UI while blind. The corner of “just works” computing they live in could be beyond what I’ve ever experienced.

it's fiction (seemingly everything is on the site?). maybe the title should reflect that

Apparently we have a case of discerning truth by whether we’re downvoting someone saying it’s fiction.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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post #18

Sounds like it's not real but... It reads like an indictment of the government employee personally, rather than the rules and constraints that employee is forced to use. Probably fair to comment on the interaction, whether the person was rude, and so on. But blaming them for not accepting email is kind of silly. They are not empowered to do that kind of thing.

The person is an agent of the system. That they bear the brunt of the reaction is the system working as intended.

I guess. Faxing it to someone involved in why the rules are that way would be more satisfying to me.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

#28

For a second I thought this was one of my friends. He had his eyes removed due to a medical reason (already blind). He recently had to go to a vision doctor and take a vision test. To confirm to his insurance that he was indeed, blind.

Regulatory capture.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The person is an agent of the system. That they bear the brunt of the reaction is the system working as intended.

I guess. Faxing it to someone involved in why the rules are that way would be more satisfying to me.

You can fax your congressman.
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