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Could You Treat People This Way?
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https:/ /www.th eguardi an.com/ society /2015/f eb/04/j obcentr e-advis er-play -benefi t-sanct ions-an gela-ne ville
“We were given lists of customers to call immediately and get them on to the Work Programme,” she recalls. “I said, ‘I’m sorry this can’t happen, this man is in hospital.’ I was told [by my boss]: ‘No, you’ve got to phone him and you’ve got to put this to him and he may be sanctioned.’ I said I’m not doing it.”
I suppose it’s possible that conditions have changed since the above interview was published, but from all accounts they have not.
Who could, who does, who is “only following orders”, in what passes for our compassionate society? Anyone here?
“We were given lists of customers to call immediately and get them on to the Work Programme,” she recalls. “I said, ‘I’m sorry this can’t happen, this man is in hospital.’ I was told [by my boss]: ‘No, you’ve got to phone him and you’ve got to put this to him and he may be sanctioned.’ I said I’m not doing it.”
I suppose it’s possible that conditions have changed since the above interview was published, but from all accounts they have not.
Who could, who does, who is “only following orders”, in what passes for our compassionate society? Anyone here?
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