tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post6325307737880869310..comments2024-03-05T17:55:58.806+00:00Comments on Nanny Knows Best: DimwitsKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-69649296995594126132013-06-01T13:25:51.333+01:002013-06-01T13:25:51.333+01:00This is as bad as an advert placed a few years ago...This is as bad as an advert placed a few years ago in one of my local newspapers by a local authority (surprise, surprise!) asking for a driver. At the bottom of the advert it stated "we welcome applications from those who disabled and registered blind". (!!)Lord of Atlantisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-2843418911283924312013-06-01T02:51:27.178+01:002013-06-01T02:51:27.178+01:00I was hoping that the individual's arm might g...I was hoping that the individual's arm might grow back, so that he might become able to raise two fingers to the jobsworth interrogator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13698884514295983365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-71426838494344544542013-05-31T11:56:32.168+01:002013-05-31T11:56:32.168+01:00I can believe someone asking the question mentione...I can believe someone asking the question mentioned in the piece.....We have become a "tickbox" culture and unable to think for ourselves.....If the computer says ask the question, you must ask the question, no matter how much of a paper hat it may make you look.<br /><br />When challenged, the operator will blame the computer and will often speak as if the computer is a separate personality; for example; The computer said no.....The computer wants more information....etc<br /><br />I will always remember what a friend of mine told me many years ago; (re computers) The computer can only do what it is told to do. If you put garbage in, you'll get garbage out.<br /><br />I suspect companies etc feel unable to trust the idiots working for them and hence why their programmes are set up to be idiot proof however, because they employ idiots, those idiots are unable to think for themselves because, as you rightly say Ken, they lack commonsense.Tonk.noreply@blogger.com