New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner.
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@WeirdWriter hello i am a stranger but i was sent this after i had to fax a thing to a medical office and was really annoyed about it and it made me feel better. cheers
@nora I know this song and dance super well! Had to do this for years! You can imagine why I am *so* tired!
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@WeirdWriter Robert this is genuinely epic.
Thank you for sharing!More to come so I hope my feed makes it to your reader! I also have a podcast version of my blog but thank you! I just became *so* tired of people telling me I never bring enough. Fine. I'll show you enough documentation! LOL! But https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow/ @sboots
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@nora I know this song and dance super well! Had to do this for years! You can imagine why I am *so* tired!
@WeirdWriter im doing the hoops you jump through to ultimately find out you have fibromyalgia so i am intimately familiar with your tiredness, solidarity there. my dad used to be a reporter for the local newspaper and once a senator did this to him, but it wasn't with a fax, they just answered a FOIA request by sending him a huge box of hard copy documents
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter i have been doing the same lately. they want to know if i am still unable to work? there is a decade worth of files testifying just that. have them all you fuckers. oh, you need another copy of my prescription bc the pharmacy receipt didn’t have my social security number on it? here, have all the fucking prescriptions i currently have, thats about 10. i am just so tired of this endless paper war what cannot be won. they always need something else.
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@WeirdWriter It is ridiculous. One of my friends cares for her husband, who suffered a permanently debilitating stroke, and deals with the same bullshit. I’ll have to pass this along to her.
@superball @WeirdWriter
My nephew has down syndrome. His parents have to give updates in case they somehow one day remove that extra chromosome in each of his body's cells. -
More to come so I hope my feed makes it to your reader! I also have a podcast version of my blog but thank you! I just became *so* tired of people telling me I never bring enough. Fine. I'll show you enough documentation! LOL! But https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow/ @sboots
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter this is the precise type of pettiness I aspire to. May they all drown in faxes.
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter
now that's fighting in the best way haha
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter my father lost his feet due to a treatment error and now he has to proof every two years that they didn't grew back.
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@superball @WeirdWriter
My nephew has down syndrome. His parents have to give updates in case they somehow one day remove that extra chromosome in each of his body's cells.@kleines_z @superball I don’t understand why Americans hate poor or disabled people so much! I know it’s not just an American thing, but it feels like it most days because I’m trapped in this system that hates my existence and hates me for using it. I will never understand why Americans hate social security or why they hate anybody using it
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@WeirdWriter my father lost his feet due to a treatment error and now he has to proof every two years that they didn't grew back.
@Schafstelze I can’t express how much I hate this means testing bullshit. All because there are some Americans that just cannot let others live their life even if they do collect these kind of government assistance
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@WeirdWriter
now that's fighting in the best way haha
loved the move (and the blog post) thank you so much, I'm still laughing haha@couscous Oh I’m not done! Life loves to kick me so there will be many more, I hope you follow the RSS feed or share it with others that like narrative blogs. 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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@couscous Oh I’m not done! Life loves to kick me so there will be many more, I hope you follow the RSS feed or share it with others that like narrative blogs. 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
thanks ! I just followed your RSS and I already shared your blog with french friends of mine, keep it up i love it !
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@WeirdWriter i have been doing the same lately. they want to know if i am still unable to work? there is a decade worth of files testifying just that. have them all you fuckers. oh, you need another copy of my prescription bc the pharmacy receipt didn’t have my social security number on it? here, have all the fucking prescriptions i currently have, thats about 10. i am just so tired of this endless paper war what cannot be won. they always need something else.
@whangdoodler We should collectively flood their offices the next time they ask us for a review. I could not agree more! I really can’t stand the way the system punishes you for having/using these programs. And a truly ironic thing is, is that I just want to be left the fuck alone, regardless if I use these services or not. Why is it so difficult for others to just let me live my life and let tons of other disabled people live their lives even if they don’t contribute economically to the workforce. I hate this system of perceived value
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter an absolutely beautiful act of malicious compliance. Wonderful.
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@WeirdWriter an absolutely beautiful act of malicious compliance. Wonderful.
@quixoticgeek And trust me, that malicious compliance was just years in the making. It was years of frustration, anger, I just had enough with this shitty system.
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@kleines_z @superball I don’t understand why Americans hate poor or disabled people so much! I know it’s not just an American thing, but it feels like it most days because I’m trapped in this system that hates my existence and hates me for using it. I will never understand why Americans hate social security or why they hate anybody using it
@WeirdWriter @superball
It's in Germany in my nephew's case, and it's not about immediate withdrawal of all benefits, but one example is a certain stamp for a public transport ticket that says he can take a person with him for free for his assistance. It must be renewed every year, "proving" his disability all over again. Before he can get the stamp to validate his ticket, there needs to be proof that yes, he still has down syndrome and no, he still can't use public transport all by himself without being accompanied by an assisting person.By the way, my nephew is five years old.
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@whangdoodler We should collectively flood their offices the next time they ask us for a review. I could not agree more! I really can’t stand the way the system punishes you for having/using these programs. And a truly ironic thing is, is that I just want to be left the fuck alone, regardless if I use these services or not. Why is it so difficult for others to just let me live my life and let tons of other disabled people live their lives even if they don’t contribute economically to the workforce. I hate this system of perceived value
@WeirdWriter i have already made files on different topics on my laptop. housing-shit, disability-shit, poverty-benefit-shit. all the papers go in and all of the papers get sent off on slightest provocation.
funniest thing is we have this anonymous channel to give them feedback by and oh boy do i rip them a new one everytime they ask us anything.
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@lapis That was me doing a literary equivalent of a scream! I’m not sure if it’s this way in Canada, I thought you lived in Canada? but these reviews are always nerve-racking because, as you know, one tiny mistake could have them decreasing your benefits or cutting them off
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter
Omg that is hilarious! Well done.
