They didn’t kick the guy off benefits despite the coma.  Rather, they gave the wrong place to submit the paperwork and then kicked him off when the paperwork wasn’t submitted to the right place.

Also, as mentioned further down, I was of course exaggerating a little as well.

People used to understand this.  They used to beat the rice grains on the side of the canoe so that some were certain to fall back into the water and propagate without direct human intervention, following their own evolutionary patterns instead of human ideas of efficiency.

I see it as a flawed system incapable of handling various parts of society yet still it controls all sectors of our society – its not some evil dudes in a room thinking how they screw us over.

False dilemma.  There’s no contradiction in believing both these things to be true.

What exactly is so hard to believe about evil dudes in a room scheming to screw everyone over?  It’s not like it would be anything new.  Evil dudes privately scheming to screw everyone over is like the major constant in human history.

For what it’s worth I don’t remember using it on BB before, but I had in mind a particular scene in Frasier which led to its use, for whatever reason. I’m pretty sure it means what I think it means though, “amusing in an odd way” according to the internet. I was exaggerating in a way that would have involved smiling and the odd arm nudge, had the conversation taken place physically, that is. Online conversations suck for subtlety.

I’m just being droll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Companies have someone to answer to every 12 months.

They answer to themselves, their parents, spouses, children and in-laws. Privately owned companies don’t have to answer to anybody. Publicly traded companies answer to the board, not to the little people who bought stock.

Only if we roll back minimum wage laws that prevent humans from competing against bags of sand in the global jobs market.

Imprison him for benefits fraud, then take the job away from the bags of sand and give it to him.

http://sudatosorigin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/atos-healthcare-en-grande-bretagne-un.html

2. Put some effort into reversing the damage.

Yeah, good luck with either one.

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Democracies answer to voters every few years
Businesses answer to someone every business quarter. That someone isn’t you.

The problem is how you get out of that situation, its simple, everyone who gets assessed gets turned down.  Real disabled people have to get more evidence and claim again, everyone who isn’t gets down the job centre.  Cruel and heartless yes, but what else could you do?  Give full medicals to everyone, that would take 30 years.

Yeah, he’s really not making this up.

And sometimes of course, failure for executives to agree between themselves on objectives, and divisions therefore pulling in different directions, can cause further problems (that should ideally be cleared up by the MD or CEO – assuming they can be made to care).

So yeah, it’s a mess – but don’t blame the poor Business Analysts who just did their course and want to do a job :)

Everyone who processed the paperwork attached to this case, I am sure, followed the rules competently and exactly. It’s just that the rules were stupidly designed and entirely inflexible (because – you know – empowering the peons seems dangerous). Some ministerial advisor or corporate VP is unintentionally and indirectly, but solely responsible for this. The problem is that we have long since stopped tying power and remuneration to responsibility, but the solution is not to try to raise responsibility accordingly, but to lower power and remuneration.

First, Sue Marsh: http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/

Second, Kaliya Franklin: http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.co.uk/

They are both disabled, both activists, and they and their network know more about this subject than most.

In addition, read http://calumslist.org/ which lists deaths that appear attributable to reforms.

It’s a big run  around and in the mean time you get cases like this where a guy in a coma can get labeled fit for work.

I don’t know that the ATOS interviewer who only wrote down the half of what I told him about my depression that made it sound like I was fit for work deliberately or that he misled me about the procedure deliberately or whether it was because he was incompetent. But, you know, I don’t care. ATOS is a private company receiving Government handouts for fulfilling a political agenda using the bluntest tools possible. ATOS is malicious, even if individual elements of it are not.