@Vanders said:
@dancer said:
As one of the many techs involved in the UK national bus pass schemeIs this a government scheme, and does it in some way involve one of the big five consulting firms? Because I'm far less surprised by the idiocy, if so. I think I've become desensitized to it.
Government scheme but blessedly free of Big 5 involvement. They're not the sole providers of procedural stupidity though - this particular marvel was the creation of a government employee, a quick chat to the supplier identified a wide variety of bulk import methods none of which involved holding printouts up to cameras. Common sense be damned - why ask your software supplier for the answer to a problem when you can waste your time coming up with something ridiculously complex that meets requirements only by the loosest possible interpretation of said requirements (incorporating of course a reckless disregard for public expenditure and time).
But as we're told: This is not the Real World. This is Government.