“It Has Come to My Attention…” How Institutional Complaints Procedures are Being Weaponized (article in Quillette)

The only interesting thing is that people like him replicate.

 

Exactly the poor are unworthy and the rich are worthy.
How they got this way doesn't matter because the point is to shame or elevate based on dollar signs

But this just won't do, you can't demean someone by empowering them.

 

Yes, but there's a limit, and it is well-known to the powerful: If a person feels he's got nothing to loose - because he has nothing left - he is more willing to revolt. So you have to give little to the poor, but enough so that they keep silent. Until a certain threshold "propaganda" works like "people who get social aid aren't poor" and the like. But at some point it will tip over.

 

This made me laugh, Luther, because this study recently found that lifetime income is negatively associated with agreeableness (that is, nice people don't get rich).

Conscientiousness is, however, positively associated with income.

 

Well done, I'd say. You got us all thinking

 

What about Meghan? She seems feisty and a bit subversive and probably has some high profile friends with ME.

Or we could make the whole Royal Family honorary members and become the Royal S4ME.

But seriously, Diana did a huge amount for AIDS and sick children. Maybe we should get on to Meghan before her diary gets too full.

 

Guess who deserved his unemployment benefits though?

I have just a little suspicion that people complained about his work is that it is not grounded in fact, uses bizarre leaps of 'logic', goes against what other experts in the field think, contains bad statistics, and he wants it to be used to stigmatise and punish whole groups (especially women), including doing unethical experiments on them without their consent that would probably cause a lot of pain and suffering.

I've no idea why this idea is not repulsive to Michael Sharpe. It seems to be against everything he says he is for.

If people want to praise a man who cannot work out that Working Families Tax Credit is only available to, well, people who work, it's up to them. I'm sure that non UK readers, who have less familiarity with the UK Social Security system might have been able to make an educated guess on that one.

(Working Families Tax Credit is the main 'wefare' benefit that targets children in poor households in the UK. Since its introduction, the number of workless households with children went down, not up. How this proves his main thesis I don't really know and don't really care.)

Workless households with children are about 0.4 per cent of the population I think. 1 per cent of the population are millionaires (Barclays Bank Wealth Management). I think most sociologists think that one of these groups has the power and means to shape society for good or bad.

 

Six of one, a half dozen of another.

Talk is cheap, actions speak far louder then words (but only if people are listening).

 

He has obviously had an effect- child benefit is only paid for the first two children ( unless you count the rape clause)

 

Yes - this picture is suitably creepy...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2...00000578-5526339-image-a-37_1521628990907.jpg

The above image came from this article :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5526339/Pregnant-Kate-looks-blooming-green.html

 

https://www.s4me.info/threads/meghan-markle-a-new-me-ally.3154/#post-57522

 

Well, that shows where the "royal" focus lies...Mental health support for children - since Crawley&Co. I know what that can mean.

This sounds like from 50+ years ago. On the other hand, it's very modern because we need our future workers that contribute to profit.

 

Getting back to the original subject of the thread, I'm not surprised that institutional complaints procedures are seeing an uptick in use, if my personal experience is anything to go by.

As some may be aware of, my wife and I are fighting against being exploited by the "management" company of our flat. For years, we have tried to get them to address water ingress issues with the flats, only to have continued avoidance and non-action from them on the problems, up to a couple of years ago, when, for reasons known only to them, they had a survey done of the condition of the flats and, shock horror, they found water ingress issues. They then embarked on an over inflated plan of works, in which they looked to address the issues caused by their neglect and attempted to add various improvements onto the building schedule - most of which a tribunal agreed were unnecessary.

In dealing with this company, I have had to regularly email details of my latest issue to the complaints email address in order to get any substantial action taken. If I had to guess there is a policy of "ignore for as long as possible, unless an official complaint is made", and I can well imagine that this is the case for many different organisations. You only have to look at the efforts that Dave Tuller is making in trying to get various journals to take responsible action on dodgy papers that they have published as, seemingly, an example of this.

 

Oh, yes. I'm in the midst of a highly illuminating experience here, involving one of our major UK utilities. After fully 6 months of going round and round in the circle of hell of their "Customer Service" department, costing me a huge amount of time and frustration, someone on Reddit the other day, who works for a rival organisation, told me to email a complaint to the CEO personally. Within 24 hours I had a personal, very good case worker assigned, an email of apology from the CEO himself, and a total commitment to get the matter resolved double-quick. The guy on Reddit told me that Customer Service these days isn't really meant to do anything for customers. More fend them off.

 

Going back to an earlier point, I have never minded being asked if I have mental health problems, I don't even mind them asking whether CFS has a mental health component. What is infuriating and totally useless is when no one accepts the answer NO.

Even the PACE trial, bad as it was answered a question. Does the BPS theory of fatigue (never mind ME) stand up to a proper trial? No it doesn't. Even cherry picking the patients, loading the set up and then fudging the results gave a very poor recovery rate and the 6 minute test and step test showed that people did not improve their fitness. (The way they set up the trial most of us thought they were going to get spectacular results. I was shocked when the results were published).