New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner.
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We tried the TI paper in our fax machine once, when we ran out of thermal fax paper. It was the same physical size and it worked OK, but the print quality wasn't as good: legible in good light, but it looked faded. Probably wouldn't scan well.
This was long before Internet fax or plain paper fax. Fax modems were still new.One Friday afternoon, another company in our building asked us for a roll of fax paper. They had ran out, and they had a big contract that was due to be sent to them.
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We handed them a roll of the TI paper, and explained why it probably wasn't going to give good quality output on their fax machine. They just needed to be able to review the contract as soon as it came in.
We were later informed that it performed as expected.A week later, we got a phone call: "Hey, do you guys sell Almost Fax Paper?" They namedropped our neighbour. They already knew about the low quality.
They also had a big contract due by fax that day (a Friday), and they bought 2 rolls.3/
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We handed them a roll of the TI paper, and explained why it probably wasn't going to give good quality output on their fax machine. They just needed to be able to review the contract as soon as it came in.
We were later informed that it performed as expected.A week later, we got a phone call: "Hey, do you guys sell Almost Fax Paper?" They namedropped our neighbour. They already knew about the low quality.
They also had a big contract due by fax that day (a Friday), and they bought 2 rolls.3/
This happened every 2 or 3 weeks, for about a year, until plain paper fax took over offices. Word of mouth led to a few unfortunate fax machine admins buying inappropriate thermal paper from us whenever their real stuff ran out. Nobody ever reported it working well on an actual fax machine.
And TI didn't notice us ordering more boxes of paper from them.
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@irina It really upsets me because there’s tons of ways you can make email secure and able to handle sensitive documents
H*ll, faxes are just emails that auto-print at the end. Since they're more often sent to/from public machines they're less secure than email.
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@LJ Squeeee!
@WeirdWriter i have a friend - it's actually her birthday today - who is in a similar place with the hoops she has to jump through to keep the meager benefits she gets. It's disgusting how our government treats vulnerable people. Reading about your malicious (or should I say delicious!) compliance made my day.
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@WeirdWriter Love me a malicious compliance in the morning!
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@WeirdWriter i have a friend - it's actually her birthday today - who is in a similar place with the hoops she has to jump through to keep the meager benefits she gets. It's disgusting how our government treats vulnerable people. Reading about your malicious (or should I say delicious!) compliance made my day.
I hope it makes her smile at least! I *hate* how our society treats poor people. Classist nonsense all the way down from people that are strangely concerned about someone feeding themselves with food stamps. I don't get the obsession. Super strange! @LJ
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@WeirdWriter Love me a malicious compliance in the morning!
I shouldn't even have to do this review as often as I do! And her tone. Her tone is what really got to me, like, no sympathy at all so I was like, fine, let's play! I can't stand this if you deserve it system we have now. @ragman
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@stephaniepixie Her Tone is what really got to me. No sympathy whatsoever! I shouldn’t even have to do this ridiculous review every few years AnyWho. Thank you! Don’t fuck with me before my morning tea! Smile!
@WeirdWriter I’ve had to deal with Canadian provincial support workers and I’ve never felt more condescended to in my life (and I worked in cafes and retail for decades) so I can imagine the feelings you must’ve felt. I was pure fury but didn’t have a creative response like you did.
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@WeirdWriter I just love malicious compliance weaponized like this. Brilliant.
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@WeirdWriter I just love malicious compliance weaponized like this. Brilliant.
@quidcumque Thank you! More to come, because I have a hell of a lot of these kinds of stories because my GOV hates poor people and disabled people
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@quidcumque Thank you! More to come, because I have a hell of a lot of these kinds of stories because my GOV hates poor people and disabled people
@WeirdWriter I hope Karen gets really really scared now everytime someone in the office asks for "complete documentation".
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️This is for everyone who has to regularly prove they're still disabled.Well played, sir!
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Well, they demanded it. It is only right they got it. One page at a time.
On another note, it appears the line linking to the tips page is missing a closing square bracket, so the link doesn't get rendered properly @WeirdWriter
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@WeirdWriter this is great. So great.
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@WeirdWriter bless, this is life giving. The next time I get hit with a review I'm taking a page from your book.
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@WeirdWriter Five hundred plus pages. Diabolical. I hope they learn their lesson and keep your documents as a memento mori. On the other hand, imagining you threatening to do it again is making me laugh maniacally.
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@WeirdWriter bless, this is life giving. The next time I get hit with a review I'm taking a page from your book.
@mxjaygrant Yes, it is so, frustrating. I used to comply with just the right anount but not anymore! Make them *never* want to cancel your services. Teach them you are radical enough to not stop until you have things sorted out. I really do hate this system we are in so much!
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@WeirdWriter this is great. So great.
@jhamre More to come! I have many more because, yes, the system gives me *plenty* of material!
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Well, they demanded it. It is only right they got it. One page at a time.
On another note, it appears the line linking to the tips page is missing a closing square bracket, so the link doesn't get rendered properly @WeirdWriter
@fargate Ah thanks! I just fixed it! By the way, I also *just now* learned how to do multiple redirects in Eleventy which is super epic! But thank you! More to come!
