The Victorian NewsVictoria Police busted lying
#ausnews #vicnews #vkc #vicpol #police #vicroads #springst #licence #registration #compensation
LenGot an email just now saying they'd sent me my new licence, but they'll send another one. Okay.
Then five minutes later I got another one saying oops disregard that, they haven't sent me a new one, I need to go into an office and get a new photo taken because it's been more than five years since the last one!
Never mind the right hand, the LEFT hand doesn't know that it's doing! 🤦🏻♂️
ajft [SEC=yferc ooxie]Aha, explanation for the teenagers #VicRoads woes. They've gone & done IT "to serve you better" and deployed the foot-gun, so that would be why we can't reauthenticate to the learners app
Replacement licence still hasn't arrived, more than three weeks after being ordered.
Phoned to find out what's happening. They can't help me without a licence number. No, the order number and reference number won't help. I could log in to my account to get the licence number, only their website is down for maintenance so sorry, but if I'll go in person into one of their offices...
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Unbelievable.
Well, good thing I don't actually need my licence. And I'm proud of not losing my shit at the rep on the phone.
deepfryedWhat sort of #vicroads scam is this ?
2 new plates, first issue is $43 but replacement is $79.60 ?
Maude Nificent#VicRoads #Auspol #SimplifyingThingsOneComplicationAtATime
#JustWhingeing #StuckInTheLandOfShould
time to pay my motor reg — there are no BPay details on the notice, i must, apparently,
— have/ use mastercard or visa (i don’t “do” phone calls easily, but can i even pay this by phone?) or…
— use the vic roads app
EDIT actually prefer to transfer money by direct credit online than to put yet one more bloody visa number “out there”, so the visa requirement is even more ridiculous from a security viewpoint
there is a lot of guff on the app about how much vic riads cares about my privacy, and how secure the app is.
and some other stuff about digital driver’s licences
and a whole lot of stuff about QR codes 🙄
i only know enough about IT to know not to trust links of any description, or QR codes
the less i understand about change, and the more i understand about how performatively clueless some (#NotAll) IT people are, the more frightened/frustrated i become
why do i resent vic roads pushing me to use a phone app to pay my rego? because they want me to accept their assurances about my data privacy, and accept terms and conditions that are a bit too “our bad so sad” for my liking.
our phone numbers are fast becoming our identity card, as well as essential to security in banking etc.
i once had a(n expensive) windows phone die on me for no discernible reason, while i was miles from home, and it took me six weeks to resolve issues while retaining control of my own phone number. luckily (i had the cash to buy an apple phone to try and work my way thru the nightmare.)
(this is why i keep a little paper book of codes instead of relying on any kind of software to keep passcodes safe — cos the foolproof back up system failed)
Dan WSo my Nibblings and their friends have been politically activated over #VicRoads further restrictions on P-Platers.
Turns Out, they all got upset over a foreign news article that was LLM-Generated and completely false. #Melbourne #CarBrain #AIDross
Turns Out, they all got upset over a foreign news article that was LLM-Generated and completely false. #Melbourne #CarBrain #AIDross
Railpage‘Road bully’: Truck driver filmed swerving into ute on Ring Road http://dlvr.it/TJms13 #BreakingNews #RailNews #Melbourne #Vicroads
Peter Riley(Thanks Sarah Missen)
Industrial Disputes Report 12th March 2025
#Cocacola #MauriceBlackburn #Nestle #Teekay Vic public sector mental #healthworkers; #BAE #Ventia Alstom Metronet; SA public sector health & disability workers; #Vicroads & #IWWD
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-12-march?
