[HN Gopher] US Surgeon General Employment Verification
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       US Surgeon General Employment Verification
        
       Author : Element_
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2021-09-21 22:37 UTC (25 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | josephcsible wrote:
       | This is what happens when you tell your employees they're only
       | allowed to follow a script and not to use their brains.
        
       | version_five wrote:
       | This is underrated. It highlights the stupidity of - I don't know
       | exactly the term, but process or algorithmic decisions making,
       | basically taking autonomy away from people and replacing it with
       | some kind of mindless form filling.
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       | Maybe it never existed, but there is the old fashioned idea of
       | putting on a suit and going to talk to the bank manager about a
       | loan and having a real person make a judgement call. While there
       | may be problems with that model, it still had a lot of benefits
       | over being denied something because the form isn't designed for
       | it.
        
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