As I mentioned once before: Northern Ireland does NOT work. Everything you want needs papers filling out. Preferably in threefold and if possible several forms for one thing. It drives me mad after five years in Norway, where I had to fill out all my details once and after that it was sorted.
On Thursday I thought it might be a good idea to get my driver's licence exchanged. It needs to be done within a year, but preferable as soon as possible. Since I also need a new driver's card (digital tachograph), I thought I would kill two birds with one stone.
Of course, my thinking was not the Northern Irish way of thinking. The form I originally had was for cars and mopeds. I needed one for lorries and buses. Then I needed another form (containing the exact same questions) to apply for the tiny bit on my current driver's licence that will go on another card here in Northern Ireland. And when I finally filled out the form for the driver's card: guess what: THE SAME (&%^%$&##) QUESTIONS AGAIN!!!
When I tried to hand the lot in, I was told that 'oh, you also need a medical and a police check'. Come on! My licence is 9 months old! In the end I went home empty-handed and quite peeved off at how this country just DOES NOT WORK!!! Take some lessons folk, from a country like Norway. Which works...
Anyway, the digital tacho card will be ordered soon and for the driver's licence I will just wait a bit longer and get it sorted in my own time. *Grumble grumble*
Come here and you will live the same mess ! But nothing beats the Russian border, we had to show our passport 7 times and fill in papers !!
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ReplyDeleteBritish beaurocracy... India loved it so much, it layered it in with its own levels of multi-choice administration. The recent introduction of the GDPR privacy thing in the EU would also mean that info could not be shared between agencies. Apparently, many folk preferred that they had the control of who received what info about them went to whichever centre. That's one of the reasons being used now for why the NHS hasn't got a centralised patient database and everyone has to retell their details if they move to a new doctor... lumbering, that's the word I would use for systems here!
Patience, that's the word for what we require to deal with the lumbering! YAM xx
A lot of patience at that! An awful lot!!
DeleteThe old phrase, "The luck of the Irish," meant that they weren't lucky. It certainly applies to their love of forms.
ReplyDeleteYipes! Nothing worse than paperwork! My ghostwriter had to renew her driver's license this summer. She had to go to the DMV and stand in line four times before she finally got all the stuff they needed.
ReplyDeleteWe can send it off apparently, which sounds very unsafe to me!
DeleteOh, the frustrations that all the paperwork can cause. I feel your pain of the license. Hang tough. It might get better.
ReplyDeleteNot likely, but by then I will probably be beaten down with it all that I no longer care...
DeleteHow frustrating! Sorry about your day. I hate forms. We belong to the Upland Medical Group. Each doctor I see is in that group. They all put it into the computer. So why do they each need 4 forms filled out???
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