[LINK] Centrelink computers to keep tabs on the dead and flying

[Adam Todd]

At 05:49 PM 10/05/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>It's also jarring the way they refer to themselves as Customer 
>Service Officers; they are Citizen Service Officers.

Aren't they just Public Servants?  Afterall, anyone on benefits is 
paying tax too!  Hence paying the wages of these people who seem to 
think they are all powerful and know all the laws, which they don't 
when you challenge them.

>One of the subscriber sigs on Groklaw goes something like:
>"I'm not a customer or a consumer, I'm a citizen."
>
>
>Adam Todd wrote:
>>At 11:44 AM 10/05/2007, Eleanor Lister wrote:
>>>Pilcher, Fred wrote:
>>> > Rather off-topic, but am I the only person who finds the use of 
>>> "customer" in regards to Centrelink bizarre?
>>> >
>>> > Fred
>>> >
>>>
>>>yes, it is rather offensive ... but it goes hand in glove with "mutual
>>>obligation" - just where is the "mutual" bit?
>>Oh that was easy!  I signed the form "under duress and demand of no 
>>alternative or ability to negotiate"
>>They accepted it :)
>>After 4 months of meetings with anywhere from 2 to 6 "senior 
>>managers" and no one who actually knew the law itself.
>>
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