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

TyrunDemeg101

Chefs Kiss , thank you for that bit of schadenfreude to go with my morning coffee.

wittyusername

I don't believe this is actually real, but it was great to read nonetheless.

hyperhello

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.

cl0ckt0wer

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

dentemple

This is proof that you don't need vision to create a thing of beauty.

sidewndr46

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.

ai-inquisitor

This entire post is clearly AI generated. My internal AI detector didn't kick in until the sixth paragraph. More slop for the feed.

wkandek

Fictional, but how far away from the truth? I enjoyed this interview with the CIO of the IRS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4odAXoqRT8 who describes his troubles with replacing the fax based system. Security is mentioned. The specific section is around minute 15.

tyingq

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.

pluc

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.

solfox

Great read. While I admire the spite, I question the wisdom of pissing off a government employee with the power to deny your benefits.

renewiltord

Bloody hell. Cerebral palsy, legal blindness then leading to total blindness, and gay. I hope this person lives in a place where at least the last is acceptable because otherwise this is one of the most unlucky rolls you can imagine. They seem to have built a life regardless however. Good for them.

recursivedoubts

Karen woke up this morning in her run down, rented flat. She briefly looks at the collections letter that showed up yesterday due to an unaffordable repair she had to pay for on her credit card. Another letter from her ex-partner's lawyer. As she rushes out the door (she spilled coffee on her one nice sweater, her favorite) her mom flashes through her mind... "What about mum?". She arrives at the office. It is an oppressive, sterile government office. She tries to ignore the overwhelming sense of helplessness and sits down to begin working. Her first call is a person screaming at her about their benefits. She has no power, absolutely no power, to help them due to the rules imposed on her by her superiors, but has to take the abuse regardless and explain the process she has no control over to them. The next call is a case she actually is familiar with: a person claiming to be disabled to collect dole. They aren't, but she has been told that this is a special case and she must work with them. She complies. She sits back in her chair and the phone rings again. An upset person on the other end... "I have the documents in PDF format"

speedgoose

I don’t like the AI writing style anymore. It’s very readable and it has great words, but it’s lacking imperfections. Like a raytraced 3D render of mathematically perfect shapes.

NGRhodes

This exact dynamic exists in the UK too. Lifelong and degenerative conditions. They have full access to bank accounts, revoked driving license, direct line to my consultants. Every form filled, every document provided. They still call to ask if my genes have fixed themselves. Not sure what verbal confirmation they're expecting - "no, I made it all up"? Edit: exact words were "Do you continue to have <REDACTED>" where <REDACTED> is a genetic disease. Edit edit: I feel sorry for those having to follow these scripts.

mystraline

There's a LOT of similar content like this as fast-reading AI generated voice, over on YouTube shorts. The few I listened to were these kinds of GOTCHA HAHA moral superiority games. And then near the end of like the 3rd one was text that wasn't cut from the TTS engine... "Claude can make mistakes"

looperhacks

I know it's fiction - but in reality, Karen is likely just as annoyed by this as the author. The spam should go to the person in charge, not the person who is forced to deal with this every day

spicymaki

Aside from the AI writing the blog itself seems to have a false timeline. It says there are posts from April 2017, but the domain has only been up for a year. There is all of this promotion about books, podcasts, volunteering to support the author. What is this about?

Papazsazsa

This site is so nice.

newer_vienna

I cannot get over the malice seeping through this author's writing. Happiness does not come from making others miserable.