You must have noticed, or maybe it's just me, that the Wise app was recently upgraded and now it is possible to view the routes already in the middle of the process of finding the address - which unknowingly changes a fundamental issue in the process of activating the Wise: it adds another button on the way to the long-awaited navigation.
Back in the day, I would perform a simple, logical calculation, and come to the conclusion that this is about streamlining and improving the service.
Both the driver has to choose the route, and what makes more sense than choosing it in advance?
The thing is that this week is not a normal day.
He is very far from it.
I am at war.
The enemy is not informed about it, but I am in a real war of existence that is revealed here for the first time only to receive silent reinforcements from you, the readers.
These days, if you haven't noticed, the Christian year has changed and we are already in the middle of January 23.
And here, in my small business there has been some kind of change that obliges me to renew my business relationship with entities I work with.
This is a small matter known to every self-employed person, and yet, since it happens to me after a long time and in a concentrated form, a situation arises where I am standing in front of monstrous bureaucratic stalwarts, which if I had not encountered them personally - I would not have believed they existed.
Did you know, for example, that there is an official form in Israel, which is not a will and is not written and is not a change of beneficiaries in life insurance, to which signatures of "witnesses to the signature" must be attached?
This is an unnecessary paper that is part of the "engagement agreement" with a certain municipality (I will not mention names, I have no way of doing this) for the purpose of performing work.
The paper itself is madness incarnate.
This is a commitment not to carry out the work without an order signed by three parties, including the mayor himself!
At this stage it should be mentioned that the work in question is not the operation and renewal of the municipal sewage system, the clearing of the forests adjacent to it or the establishment of a new neighborhood in its southern entrances;
The dramatic "engagement" with the municipality was intended for a very specific need of an hour-long meeting between the artist and his audience.
They will wipe their tears from laughter, he will take out an invoice and take out his bread - and it's over.
Three signatures?
Witness the signing?
Obviously, at record speed I printed the form, and in the lines "Witnesses to the signature" I filled in pearly script decorated with tags and curls "Haim N. Bialik" and "Dr. Shaul Tschernihovski". My ingenuity and also from the very possible fury of the monster of bureaucracy. I threw the document away and printed a new one, on which I signed my wife and my daughter, each with a different colored pen.
Two days later I was required to transfer to another beloved municipality the accident called "confirmation of bank account details".
This is the much needed procedure of the bank signing a certificate according to which the report given to you by Ariel the scammer regarding the fact that he is the owner of account 510667 is indeed correct.
He is the owner of the account, and there is no basis for your concern as if account 510667 actually belongs to Shraga and Osnat Trachtingut, and Ariely is just making up the information from his heart so that the money he deserves will be transferred to Trachtingut.
No.
This is his account.
moment.
this is only the beginning.
There are places that, for the purpose of this certificate, are satisfied with a photo of a check or a certificate that can be issued on the website.
It turns out that comfort is for the weak.
Not with us.
In this specific municipality, please note, the bank must physically sign a special form and bring the original to the municipality!
January 2023 AD.
Bring the source!
including the explicit words: you can send by mail.
by mail.
now listen
This is not the usual steam of why we don't move to digitization, although this is also an important and accurate steam.
We are in the most bitter and difficult generation.
The generation before us stuck rubber stamps on envelopes and stood in lines to stamp notebooks at the post office - but he didn't suffer, because he didn't know there was another option;
The generation after us will already live in full digitization, God willing, and will not know another world.
Only we, the unfortunate ones, lead a double life: digital and fast as devils in the private sector, and troublesome and many signatures and forms in the public sector;
But as mentioned, that's not what it's about.
not about that.
Because the mental element that underlies the requirement for three signatures, a witness to the signature and an original form, will continue to operate even when all systems are digital and fast.
Even efficient systems can be abused, believe me.
After all, this need is not a requirement of the system.
It is simply an evil remnant of an ancient situation, if only for two factors: an ancient concept of service that does not take into account the element of convenience and user-friendliness at all, and a multitude of lawyers.
These two together create bureaucratic monstrosities that no one in the system, which mostly consists of good and efficient people, is interested in.
They are simply forced upon them.
And we haven't talked about the disproportionate need for attorney signature verifications in junior matters, but that's for another time.
And during a crazy week like this, just when I'm back from worrying about delivering the idiotic source document to the municipality, I activate Wise and am required to press another button, I become sensitive and for a moment say what what what what what.
Why another button?
Why don't you seat a team to reduce a button.
Why abuse, why, why abuse.
that's it.
Here I unpacked.
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