This 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!

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

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

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@UnePorte
merci pour le partage, c'est extrêmement drôle 😄 j'adore l'écriture
@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
@UnePorte cet auteur est trop cool
@darckcrystale oui, c'est @RoseThorndyke qui m'a fait découvrir avec The Colonization of Confidence
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

@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.

@Miari @UnePorte lots of doctors offices still have physical fax machines (at least in my parent's countryside, bc of old people without Internet)
@kouett @UnePorte @Miari ça devrait disparaître d'ici quelques temps les vrais fax avec les lignes cuivres qui commencent à être coupée par les opérateurs
@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
@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....
@kouett @UnePorte @Miari après je dis pas je suis d'accord avec toi, mais de fait pour avoir des camarades qui bosse pour des opérateurs on a déjà les dates pour certains bled dans le 65, et c'est cette année que ça sera coupé pour ceux-là
@UnePorte haha, wonderful 😅
@UnePorte strong work, @WeirdWriter .
oh I didn't know @WeirdWriter was on fedi, thank you @ProcessParsnip !
@UnePorte Thanks for the easy clickable link for simpler following 🙂
@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
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@WeirdWriter @ProcessParsnip I have updated the original post to include that, thank you a lot for the care you put into your work 💜

@UnePorte

this is absolutely brilliant!

@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.

@UnePorte
Brilliant.
And strangely heart-cockle warming.
@UnePorte "digital siege engine", I love that term

@UnePorte

LOVE THIS, my kind of "Malicious Compliance", and probably a new hero!

@UnePorte "It was a digital siege engine." :chefkiss:

@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
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@UnePorte

In France, it would be the same.

There is a law which forbid to send medical data through public email. Only post office or fax is allowed
Of course there is an exception : there is a secured email system for medical staff.
But people is not allowed to used it.

@UnePorte
Trop bien! Ça m'a fait sourire de lire ça!

@stupeflo @UnePorte

Ma chérie m'a demandé pourquoi je me marrais toute seule devant mon écran.
Je lui ai lu.

On a rigolé toutes les deux.

@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.

@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.