phlox81
Door et de platineThis is peak malicious compliance and I love it
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
Edit : the blog author is on the fediverse if you want to follow him here, and he maintains a follow page on his site with many options!
as someone who has been asked to send hundreds and hundreds of pages for this kind of stuff over the years, I am now seriously considering asking for fax numbers
physical mail is too expensive for me, and even if sending sets of emails with 25 attachments each works, it doesn't look remotely as fun as sending them to a fax machine
By the way if you liked his blog post and have some spare change, please consider supporting his work financially!
Couscous
gemelen@UnePorte
Feeling the same...
I was made to go through the similar humiliating disability status renewal (with all the medical tests, a visit to a local medical council and then a visit to a regional one in other city, every year, in person) since I was a teen.
For a pension of around 200 USD a month at this moment
Feeling the same...
I was made to go through the similar humiliating disability status renewal (with all the medical tests, a visit to a local medical council and then a visit to a regional one in other city, every year, in person) since I was a teen.
For a pension of around 200 USD a month at this moment
purple's a fire marshal first aider
Crystale
Stupid Fucking Idiot
Miari printanière 🌸🐦🌱@UnePorte sadly this will most likely not work anymore.
Most fax machines now are linked to an email. They do not print faxes anymore (I don't even know if there's an actual machine somewhere).
And it's a specific email so it won't even flood their inbox 😢
At least that was the case at the last place I worked for that had a fax.
Oomfie Snoofies
stronk lesbiab@amy @UnePorte @Miari l'excuse officielle c'est "le cuivre ça consomme trop à cause de que c'est de l'électricité", la réalité c'est qu'on arrive au moment où l'infra cuivre devient trop vieille et coûteuse en termes de maintenance et les opérateurs veulent la larguer pour revendre les installations en dur et se faire de la thune avec pour rembourser leur dettes psk problèmes de refinancement j'imagine
operationellement et à court terme ça fait sens mais au global c'est une connerie, psk ils ont déployé la fibre comme des cochons pour faire au plus vite et éviter les pénalités de retard de l'État FR + toucher des aides. dans 10 ans la fibre sera un champ de ruines hors zones urbaines denses (ça a déjà commencé) car les coûts de maintenance auront explosé à cause de la fragilité liée au déploiement vite fait mal fait pas cher
operationellement et à court terme ça fait sens mais au global c'est une connerie, psk ils ont déployé la fibre comme des cochons pour faire au plus vite et éviter les pénalités de retard de l'État FR + toucher des aides. dans 10 ans la fibre sera un champ de ruines hors zones urbaines denses (ça a déjà commencé) car les coûts de maintenance auront explosé à cause de la fragilité liée au déploiement vite fait mal fait pas cher
@amy @Miari @UnePorte en termes de comparaison en europe, pr l'allemagne y'a toujours plein de cuivre et le déploiement fibre avance à vitesse d'escargot psk le marché est anticoncurrenciel au possible (mais c en train de changer lentement). on a été plutôt rapides sur la fibre en FR mais jsp si j'appellerais ça un win....
Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️@UnePorte such an awe inspiring level of spite.
Stefan
Process "Tedious" Parsnip@UnePorte strong work, @WeirdWriter .
oh I didn't know @WeirdWriter was on fedi, thank you @ProcessParsnip !
EQ
Robert Kingett@UnePorte @ProcessParsnip Yep! Share the follow page too! Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you don’t like reading, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized
@WeirdWriter @ProcessParsnip I have updated the original post to include that, thank you a lot for the care you put into your work 💜
david jon furbishthis is absolutely brilliant!
David Penfold 
@UnePorte
"I’m afraid I can’t do that," I lied. "It’s an automated process. Once it starts, it has to finish. Security protocols, you understand."
Pure gold.
Andii אַנדִֽי
Смерть Окупантам@UnePorte "digital siege engine", I love that term
oscarfalconLOVE THIS, my kind of "Malicious Compliance", and probably a new hero!
💀 𝓕airchild 💀@UnePorte "It was a digital siege engine." :chefkiss:
Dr. Sobek@UnePorte @WeirdWriter Very well done, I really hope that when your renewals next comes up you get a note to send only relevant new documentation you have not already sent, by email.
(Otherwise, the Fax machine will be tested again)
@Sobex @UnePorte By email is a must! My countrie’s social security system hates poor and disabled people, so I’m sure there will be many more stories, so consider adding my feed to your reader? Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you prefer audio, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized
tanavit
Stupeflo
Éléanore
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)@UnePorte This is my new favourate thing.
This is better than the times the council kept asking for the same information, so I squeezed it onto a single side of A4 in size 9px font, single-spaced, knowing they would scan it at a low resolution and store it at 50% size.
Catenby Noel@UnePorte I'm sorry to say this but oof this story is copied straight out of ChatGPT, definitely at least the second half... I don't doubt that it's based on something that happened to some degree, but the exchange sounds so unnatural and AI it hurts.
zivi
epicdemiologist@UnePorte instant follow!
Mx. Eddie R@UnePorte
My hero.
My hero.
theirongiant@UnePorte - but this blind man probably doesn't know is that "fax machines" have been replaced by digital versions years ago.
Almost no doctor or government agency is monitoring a paper fax machine anymore. That is too unreliable.
These fax services take a real fax line and turn it into a digital one, then create a digital copy of the received document and send it into a system that resembles email.
The company that gave birth to this eternal legacy crutch ? J2, the artist formerly known as "eFax."
If the US government ever passes a law requiring the use of secure digital transmission (which would translate to email), that will be the day that J2/Fax files for bankruptcy.