UK is Fucked
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- kingsteven6
was hoping someone else would post this for a few days as it's just fucking depressing...
just doing your job, for years, you've put in the work and are now running a local branch, your employer installs a new computer system that shows a shortfall on your accounts, you are suspended from your job, employer takes you to court for theft, court asks you to prove you didn't steal money because the computer system says you did.
your employer is the post office, which successive Labor and Conservitive govt's are privatising and marketing to the public as 'modernisation'. an act passes through parliament and your employer is now a private company called Consignia and the government sets up a postal regulator, Postcomm, to offer licences to private companies to deliver mail. The IT supplier (Fujitsu) continue to claim that the system can not be wrong. The courts put the burden of proof on you to prove that you did not steal, but you have no access to the new or old IT system... you get prosecuted, loose the only job you've ever known and sent to prison.
2021 Turns out the post office knew there were massive problems with the system, but continued to prosecute one employee a week for 14 years. ruining their lives, sending many to prison.
"Dozens of postmasters accused of theft by Post Office due to faulty IT system have convictions overturned."
- Remember listening to a documentary with some of the people fighting the convictions years ago. Crazy.Fax_Benson
- yep big payouts coming and yep, this is uk life, a big suck hole.shapesalad
- It's shocking isnt it! some died in prison I read somewhere else. were they suicides?microkorg
- We are pretty much all living in failed states...necromation
- Similar thing happened in Australia with automating welfare payment evaluations. The system was completely flawed and people we being asked to repay huge sumsthumb_screws
- that they didn’t have. No human oversight from a conservative government with an end goal of privatisation. So many people committed suicide,thumb_screws
- had mental break downs and we’re completely fucked over. Our current PM was in charge of it but there’s fuck all being done about it.thumb_screws
- yeah this was absolutely insane and in normal times would be dominating the news. Horrific.fadein11
- or should be dominating the news...fadein11
- What a horrible story! (I slightly know the feeling of fighting against windmills which somehow often occurs when you deal with large companies.)SimonFFM
- Jeeesus!! I really hope that some heads roll for this. The RIGHT heads, though.Projectile
- Newman.StoicLevels