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The hard faced intransigence of the PO and Fujitsu is distressing and scary to see the effective power they wield over individual lives.
In summary, yes, it's well worth a watch, I'll be watching the remaining 2 episodes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j/episodes/player?page=1
It is unbelievable that this corporate criminality has cost peoples livelihoods & probably shortened lives has remained unpunished. The Post Office head (Paula Vennells) & other senior management at that time deserve to be prosecuted, but instead they get rewarded with bonuses & a CBE, which had been given for "services to the Post Office and to charity".
@kittyfrisk - yeah, gongs all round for catastrophic corporate failures and arse-covering.
There are no tragic consequences for us like what's happened to the postmasters, but it's illustrative of the same type of culture of putting total trust in a computer system without any manual cross-checking, and then blaming the humans when you don't get the right result.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There were certainly no corporate wide internal comms from HR / legal people about what could / couldn't be said, certainly "no company line" as has been mentioned - not for those outside of that project anyway (as there usually are in legal/contractual issues which as with most large IT companies, there are going to be)
It was quite a horrible shock as things unwound in the press/media.
I - and a lot of former colleagues - feel quite ashamed, where once we were quite proud of the company we worked for, even still even now with no real understanding of what went on both internally and between FJ and the PO.
Having left the company, and while investigations I believe are still going on - I literally have no insight and TBH dont want to
@digitalscream ;
Lee - remove this if you feel the need
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
p.s. looked up ‘scot free’ as I realised I didn’t know the origin…
The expression 'Scot-free' originates from the Scandanavian word, 'Skat,' which means “tax” or “payment.” The word mutated into 'scot' as the name of redistributive taxation meant to provide relief to the poor during the 10th century. Someone who did not have to pay the tax for some reason was referred to as 'scot-free.'