The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

Take a job helping the disabled claim benefits they said. It'll be nice and you can help disabled people they said.

As a government employee, enmeshed in the bureaucracy:

This is the way.

The problem is that it took Karen zero effort to say “we only accept fax”. She doesn’t care about how much effort it takes you you — in fact, as implied, it taking you a tremendous amount of effort actually reduces her effort. In order to make a dent, you have to figure out a way for the idiotic policy to impact the person making and/or enforcing it. That’s the only way it ever changes.

I love malicious compliance, but it's more fun when you suffer along with them.

Disabled, fake and gay. Oh my.

This is proof that you don't need vision to create a thing of beauty.

As another post mentions, this definitely fits into the wider genre of morality/revenge/malicious compliance porn. Regardless of if this is real or fiction, AI generated or not, it's still porn.

Porn isn't bad, but thinking that porn adequately reflects reality, or that behavior within porn is blanket appropriate for real life is.. not good.

I hate to burst your bubble, but I imagine they use a fax server to receive faxes. Which just makes the refusal to accept emails even more objectionable. Likely they only accept faxes solely to make it harder for disabled people.

People are judging OP and/or judging Karen. A lot is being lost in translation.

When you get a certain drone with a certain way of speaking down to you ("this is the system obviously, you faceless person who is just as dumb as all the other faceless people"), then it's infuriating and I can see why OP went to bureaucratic war.

At the same time, give the drone a break. She's doing what she's been trained to do, in the framework she's permitted to operate in, and she's got bigger problems than you.

When I was younger, I went to similar bureaucratic wars to prove a point... to whom? What for?

It's not helping anybody.

> "Sir, please. You have to stop the fax. It’s… it’s been printing for an hour. It’s jamming the machine. We’re out of toner."

I’m a bit surprised they haven’t migrated to digital fax reception a long time ago.

Inspiring, Nietzchean even.

I don't know if the US is different, but in my experience dumping your whole medical history like that would just not count as providing "updated medical evidence". They would just tell you to comply and throw the 500 pages in the trash.

I love the story (I have close family that has to go through the same crap -it's truly nasty. They deliberately try to intimidate people into giving up their benefits).

But I have also learned that pissing off bureaucrats can have severe consequences. They may be petty, but some of them (like SSI/Medicaid people) have the power to truly mess up your life.

Bloody hell. Cerebral palsy, legal blindness then leading to total blindness, and gay. I hope this person lives in a place where at least the last is acceptable because otherwise this is one of the most unlucky rolls you can imagine. They seem to have built a life regardless however. Good for them.

I read this:

>For the recipient, a fax is a physical reality. It requires paper. It requires ink. It requires time.

... I assumed that there would simply be a messaging system attached to an OCR at the other end - no physical fax machine

I hope this didn't really happen, but I loved reading it.

There's a LOT of similar content like this as fast-reading AI generated voice, over on YouTube shorts. The few I listened to were these kinds of GOTCHA HAHA moral superiority games.

And then near the end of like the 3rd one was text that wasn't cut from the TTS engine... "Claude can make mistakes"

Yea, the front service desk worker doesn't deserve that shit. Dick move.

This site is so nice.

FFS there’s no fax machine on the other end. There no paper or ink. It’s all electronic.

This entire post is clearly AI generated. My internal AI detector didn't kick in until the sixth paragraph. More slop for the feed.

This reads like LLM slop. gptzero says 98%.

It also appears to be a confession of intentional vandalism of government property, despite the author admitting that they already knew how to send a fax via website, which is as convenient as email.

And, believe it or not, yes, some people do in fact receive treatment that cures a disability.

Oh boy.

I’m dealing with IRS right now to get an EIN for an LLC. They won’t give an EIN over online form. Must be faxed or physically mailed.

They say 3-5 days. Been weeks. I pay $5/week to hold onto a fax number.

So Trump spending hundreds of billions on blowing up kids’ schools in Iran and cutting funding from IRS.

Why does it take weeks to start a business in 2026 and get a bank account.

Just absurd.

So basically the blogger is wasting resources to spite some givernment drone.bad foe other taxpayers (who need to pay for this fax paper) and bad for environment.

Probably bad for other disabled too - their faxes wont reach in time.

There is some disability fraud, they have to check.

Maybe stop voting for right wing, so someone changes the system though.

AI slop fantasy of a blind jerk getting "revenge" by sending a 512 page fax to a disabilities office, and the government employee calls to BEG for them to stop the "whir-chunk" from the fax machine.

A protagonist in a pathetic revenge fantasy so insufferably smug that they actually reward themselves with a cookie at the end. Gag me.

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Chefs Kiss, thank you for that bit of schadenfreude to go with my morning coffee.

Fictional, but how far away from the truth? I enjoyed this interview with the CIO of the IRS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4odAXoqRT8 who describes his troubles with replacing the fax based system. Security is mentioned. The specific section is around minute 15.

I enjoyed the story and yay for him then read after the end, "Robert Kingett is a Blind, and gay..."!?!?! What does what the author does in the bedroom have to do with the story I just read? Nothing. I don't give a damn what the author does in their bedroom.