>Hundreds of self-employed workers at the state-owned Post Office were wrongly prosecuted or convicted between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting, theft and fraud, because of a glitches in a software system that incorrectly showed money missing from accounts.
Brit government is completely inept. They probably just said they'd do it cheapest
5 months ago
Anonymous
the purpose of the Agreement on Government Procurement is after all to ensure that any government work is done as poorly as possible, by habitual liars.
and since you have to use the same procedure to hire someone to unfrick the situation that you used to cause the problem in the first place, it also ensures that the failure is persistent.
but the british certainly do their best to ensure that bureaucracy sucks as much as possible, i'll give you that
5 months ago
Anonymous
The GPA's one thing, but the domestic Public Contracts Regulations acts (and the Euro Services/Procurement Directives they're modelled on) is even fricking worse and almost inevitably results in contracts going to companies who cannot deliver, all in the interests of 'competition'
Frankly, the noteworthy part of the Post Office story isn't that it happened, it's that anything even approaching justice is being done about it
5 months ago
Anonymous
ultimately those are just local interpretations of the NWO ordinances
5 months ago
Anonymous
>it's that anything even approaching justice is being done about it
It won't lol. Politicians are talking about it now because a TV show just came out about it
Within a week the papers will move on
5 months ago
Anonymous
I'm not really bothered about politicians or journos, I'm more interested in all the overturned convictions and all the individual appeals cases that have been successful in the last 3-or-so years
5 months ago
Anonymous
The GPA's one thing, but the domestic Public Contracts Regulations acts (and the Euro Services/Procurement Directives they're modelled on) is even fricking worse and almost inevitably results in contracts going to companies who cannot deliver, all in the interests of 'competition'
Frankly, the noteworthy part of the Post Office story isn't that it happened, it's that anything even approaching justice is being done about it
>Used to rule the waves >Now it's the most fundamentally pathetic, broken, totalitarian, troony infested incompetent shithole in the first world
What happened to this nation? How did it become such a shitshow? Did Hitler's warlocks put a curse on it for opposing Germany?
5 months ago
Anonymous
Nothing has changed, wtf are you talking about? Our precious nobility lived in luxury back then and they live in luxury right now
5 months ago
Anonymous
The british used to be the richest and freest men between the 16th and 21st century. They were the envy of the world. Even with your inbred nobility holding you back, you were mountains above everyone else. Now you're just loicense-paying nonce-loving bootlickers. Something must've happened.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>The british used to be the richest and freest men between the 16th and 21st century
That's never been true for the average serf or peasant, basically the same as any other european nation.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It was true after feudalism was abolished and you conquered half the world.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It absolutely was not. It's only in the last century after most of the empire got given back that the working class stopped living in abject poverty.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>The british used to be the richest and freest men between the 16th and 21st century
the period of time when millions of desperate plebians emigrated to America, Canada and Austrialia? couldn’t have been that great
5 months ago
Anonymous
You're an insane person who has fallen for 300 year old propaganda and /misc/ memes about how European Empires were proof of white supremacy.
Britain used to have an Empire because it was in the aristocracy's best interest to send men abroad and bring back gold, israeliteels and exotic spices.Today they can maintain a life of luxury without doing any of that, so we don't.
Go google 'impressment' then come back and tell me that the average Brit peasant ever enjoyed the fruits of the Empire
5 months ago
Anonymous
First of all, I haven't been on /misc/ since 2012. Secondly, this used to be the perception of britain that my countrymen had since I was born. That it and America were the lands of freedom and wealth. That the britsh were brave explorers, scientists and soldiers. And because I used to study history and read accounts from medieval times to napoleonic times about other nations' experiences with the english, which were always positive. The french praised your laws and individual freedoms. The italians praised your mastery of ships and war. I used to think the british/english were the best in the world until I saw that picture of a chav taking his pants off in front of a Black. I'm just wondering what happened between the time when the world used to think of Britain as sophisticated and now.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>I'm just wondering what happened between the time when the world used to think of Britain as sophisticated and now.
The camera was invented
5 months ago
Anonymous
>one jpg changed your entire world view
Sounds like you're easily manipulated.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It's a simplification, but my point is that I didn't know what chavs were, or about the paki rape gangs, and about loicenses, and the pedo elites until the 2010's. Even after I got on the internet in the very late 90's and early 2000's, everyone was thinking of the british as posh and superior. When I was learning english in school, I was impressed to view them as fashionable and charming. I swear it wasn't until the War in Afghanistan that I saw anybody say anything bad about the UK.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah and everyone used to think of Indians as wise, spiritual hard-working people. Now they're more famous for bad hygiene, sexual assaults and cyber scams.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Nobody ever thought about indians as white or hard-working. India has always been a dirty shithole.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Nobody ever thought about indians as white or hard-working.
The Indians that moved to England early on were usually the high-caste kind and developed a good reputation. A lot of people in the UK at least still think of Indians as some of the good ones
5 months ago
Anonymous
That's still mostly the case. Pakis on the other hand were all of the sister-fricking variety from the start and they never stopped coming.
5 months ago
Anonymous
That's what I'm talking about. Some sort of miasma took control of the british that made them believe in cloud cuckoo land ideas like indians being white or good.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Indian moves over >He's nice although you can't understand his accent very well >He runs the local shop and his kid is studying to be a doctor >Why would anybody possibly have a positive view of Indians because of this????
What question are you even asking?
5 months ago
Anonymous
Because the ones who came over were primarily drawn from the more educated ones who were used as administrators in Africa and the Caribbean
5 months ago
Anonymous
Nah before the internet India was best known for exporting exotic religions and the stereotype of an Indian immigrant was some Apu type that works 24/7 on a small business. People also knew it was a shithole but there used to be a certain romanticism about shithole countries, like it's a movie about golden hearted poor people. People nowadays know that really shitholes just smell like shit and are extremely dangerous.
The internet busted all the illusions anyone could have had about pretty much every country.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>'impressment' >the average Brit
That was incredibly rare even at its peak and strictly regulated, even aside of the fact that conscription has always just been a universal reality whenever a society needs to go to war
5 months ago
Anonymous
It would take a very long time to explain the calamitous decline which resulted from British entry in to the First World War.
post office workers got in legal trouble and massive debt because the english are so dumb and they can't into basic coding, so they just assumed hundreds of employees were pocketing money instead of actually investigating the multiple claims that the software the post office used was malfunctioning.
few people actually killed themselves
>Sudden massive increase in fraud detection on the software >Some of these are huge differences in cash despite being from a tiny post office that barely make anything >No one involved finds this odd at all and just starts suing people left and right
A lot of them, yeah. Most branches operate as franchisees rather than being directly operated by the Post Office company, especially for rural branches where they tend to double-up as convenience stores
The postal service in the US is the most inefficient thing you’ll ever see. It’s now 78.8% black and Hispanic. It’s so wasteful it has to exist outside of government oversight.
qrd?
>Hundreds of self-employed workers at the state-owned Post Office were wrongly prosecuted or convicted between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting, theft and fraud, because of a glitches in a software system that incorrectly showed money missing from accounts.
OP is a homosexual
probably outsourced the programming to india. deserved.
It was to Japan actually
who on earth would ask the japs to program something? even the jeets are better
Brit government is completely inept. They probably just said they'd do it cheapest
the purpose of the Agreement on Government Procurement is after all to ensure that any government work is done as poorly as possible, by habitual liars.
and since you have to use the same procedure to hire someone to unfrick the situation that you used to cause the problem in the first place, it also ensures that the failure is persistent.
but the british certainly do their best to ensure that bureaucracy sucks as much as possible, i'll give you that
The GPA's one thing, but the domestic Public Contracts Regulations acts (and the Euro Services/Procurement Directives they're modelled on) is even fricking worse and almost inevitably results in contracts going to companies who cannot deliver, all in the interests of 'competition'
Frankly, the noteworthy part of the Post Office story isn't that it happened, it's that anything even approaching justice is being done about it
ultimately those are just local interpretations of the NWO ordinances
>it's that anything even approaching justice is being done about it
It won't lol. Politicians are talking about it now because a TV show just came out about it
Within a week the papers will move on
I'm not really bothered about politicians or journos, I'm more interested in all the overturned convictions and all the individual appeals cases that have been successful in the last 3-or-so years
>Used to rule the waves
>Now it's the most fundamentally pathetic, broken, totalitarian, troony infested incompetent shithole in the first world
What happened to this nation? How did it become such a shitshow? Did Hitler's warlocks put a curse on it for opposing Germany?
Nothing has changed, wtf are you talking about? Our precious nobility lived in luxury back then and they live in luxury right now
The british used to be the richest and freest men between the 16th and 21st century. They were the envy of the world. Even with your inbred nobility holding you back, you were mountains above everyone else. Now you're just loicense-paying nonce-loving bootlickers. Something must've happened.
>The british used to be the richest and freest men between the 16th and 21st century
That's never been true for the average serf or peasant, basically the same as any other european nation.
It was true after feudalism was abolished and you conquered half the world.
It absolutely was not. It's only in the last century after most of the empire got given back that the working class stopped living in abject poverty.
>The british used to be the richest and freest men between the 16th and 21st century
the period of time when millions of desperate plebians emigrated to America, Canada and Austrialia? couldn’t have been that great
You're an insane person who has fallen for 300 year old propaganda and /misc/ memes about how European Empires were proof of white supremacy.
Britain used to have an Empire because it was in the aristocracy's best interest to send men abroad and bring back gold, israeliteels and exotic spices.Today they can maintain a life of luxury without doing any of that, so we don't.
Go google 'impressment' then come back and tell me that the average Brit peasant ever enjoyed the fruits of the Empire
First of all, I haven't been on /misc/ since 2012. Secondly, this used to be the perception of britain that my countrymen had since I was born. That it and America were the lands of freedom and wealth. That the britsh were brave explorers, scientists and soldiers. And because I used to study history and read accounts from medieval times to napoleonic times about other nations' experiences with the english, which were always positive. The french praised your laws and individual freedoms. The italians praised your mastery of ships and war. I used to think the british/english were the best in the world until I saw that picture of a chav taking his pants off in front of a Black. I'm just wondering what happened between the time when the world used to think of Britain as sophisticated and now.
>I'm just wondering what happened between the time when the world used to think of Britain as sophisticated and now.
The camera was invented
>one jpg changed your entire world view
Sounds like you're easily manipulated.
It's a simplification, but my point is that I didn't know what chavs were, or about the paki rape gangs, and about loicenses, and the pedo elites until the 2010's. Even after I got on the internet in the very late 90's and early 2000's, everyone was thinking of the british as posh and superior. When I was learning english in school, I was impressed to view them as fashionable and charming. I swear it wasn't until the War in Afghanistan that I saw anybody say anything bad about the UK.
Yeah and everyone used to think of Indians as wise, spiritual hard-working people. Now they're more famous for bad hygiene, sexual assaults and cyber scams.
Nobody ever thought about indians as white or hard-working. India has always been a dirty shithole.
>Nobody ever thought about indians as white or hard-working.
The Indians that moved to England early on were usually the high-caste kind and developed a good reputation. A lot of people in the UK at least still think of Indians as some of the good ones
That's still mostly the case. Pakis on the other hand were all of the sister-fricking variety from the start and they never stopped coming.
That's what I'm talking about. Some sort of miasma took control of the british that made them believe in cloud cuckoo land ideas like indians being white or good.
>Indian moves over
>He's nice although you can't understand his accent very well
>He runs the local shop and his kid is studying to be a doctor
>Why would anybody possibly have a positive view of Indians because of this????
What question are you even asking?
Because the ones who came over were primarily drawn from the more educated ones who were used as administrators in Africa and the Caribbean
Nah before the internet India was best known for exporting exotic religions and the stereotype of an Indian immigrant was some Apu type that works 24/7 on a small business. People also knew it was a shithole but there used to be a certain romanticism about shithole countries, like it's a movie about golden hearted poor people. People nowadays know that really shitholes just smell like shit and are extremely dangerous.
The internet busted all the illusions anyone could have had about pretty much every country.
>'impressment'
>the average Brit
That was incredibly rare even at its peak and strictly regulated, even aside of the fact that conscription has always just been a universal reality whenever a society needs to go to war
It would take a very long time to explain the calamitous decline which resulted from British entry in to the First World War.
freemasons
no, really
No, it was Fujitsu.
>software """error"""
Yeah, right
jap megacorps consider "programmer" a job on level with janitor or copy boy. that the code compiles at all is a success
it is one of the finer ways the japanese are more civilized than w*sterners
not surprised they code like 1% better than the average indian
how mant times will people fall for 'trust the experts'
Nobody fell for anything, the whole story was suppressed for years
by the experts that we trust no less
Which 'experts' are you referring to? If literally any experts in coding or IT systems were consulted the whole thing might have ended in a week
The experts in bureaucracy and thankfully the experts in panoramas will tell us everything we need to know about the matter
Are you pretending to be moronic?
are you an expert in moronation
yes actually
>trust the experts
They were all moronic boomers kek there were no experts involved
>$1bn on a piece of software
that seems insane, they should have just used salesforce
post office workers got in legal trouble and massive debt because the english are so dumb and they can't into basic coding, so they just assumed hundreds of employees were pocketing money instead of actually investigating the multiple claims that the software the post office used was malfunctioning.
few people actually killed themselves
>few people actually killed themselves
KWAB
abused british postal worker
>kills self
abused american postal worker
>kills you
British Post Service is run by a cartel that knowingly stole millions from its employees
Lol, being a mailman sounds comfy. Just get to ride around in a little car all day and you get to bully your customers
It was actually the mailmen who were bullied.
postmasters =/= mailmen
who cares
/thread
>t.Post Office
Toby Jones is great. This postal nonsense I couldn't possibly care less about. Frick off.
Poltards are so fricking dumb and simple minded.
>Sudden massive increase in fraud detection on the software
>Some of these are huge differences in cash despite being from a tiny post office that barely make anything
>No one involved finds this odd at all and just starts suing people left and right
British civil servants get their jollies off of the pain and misery of others.
QRD?
Toby Jones is such a good actor he can make the most boring news story of the last 20 years into kino.
Always trust an ugly male actor who gets lots of roles, they earned their place.
is the show any good
Are these post masters out in the middle of nowhere?
A lot of them, yeah. Most branches operate as franchisees rather than being directly operated by the Post Office company, especially for rural branches where they tend to double-up as convenience stores
>multi-billion dollar private company fricks up
>taxpayer foots the bill
tale as old as time
Fujitsu didn't throw those postmasters in prison or extort them for tens of thousands of pounds
Privatize profits, socialize losses
Mail man here
Frick you
The postal service in the US is the most inefficient thing you’ll ever see. It’s now 78.8% black and Hispanic. It’s so wasteful it has to exist outside of government oversight.
Was this post written by an AI? The post office workers were the ones who got fricked over.
This was Birmingham Indoor Arena in 1992. Imagine how it would look today.
Alabama has always been like 70% black. The African Americans didn’t show up later, you all brought them there
Wrong Birmingham.
Touché