Maybe I should of called this the Centrelink Pit of Woe? Well I must say our tax dollars are serving us well. As of tomorrow I would of spent 3 days hangin out in Darlo Centrelink. The aircon is great but everything just goes south from there. I guess you could say this is a review, or maybe the review that needs to happen. The first thing I noticed apart from the Aircon was just how chaotic and brain rottingly depressing the vibe was, I think the cloud of gloom and doom hit me before the cold air did. BTW I just had a bit of a breakdown/burnout type thingy event after 8 years of intense welfare work. Right at this point in my life I couldn't imagine wanting to go back but who knows what the future has in store for this little black duck or should I say purple mongoose as it sounds much more exotic and I’ve been told that some people consider me, well erm exotic. I was mythed that a social worker would interview someone clearly upset and in crisis in the main waiting area. In my mind all I wanted to do was be somewhere private so I could poor out my heart and openly criticise the circus we like to call centrelink. After the "social worker" (???) Told me she was a Buddhist and life was meant for deep suffering she sent me on a 3 and a half hour wild goose chase to street level to acquire brokerage for my medication which was depleted. What she "in her professional capacity failed to tell me” was that indeed I did not need brokerage because she could of just given me an interim health care card. Now if I'd been in my right mind at the time I would of probably (in my professional capacity) seen the error before I embarked on this fruitless and agonisingly humiliating mission which I could only imagine is a little centrelink private joke or heaven forbid a whole new level of bureaucratic stupidity. Well the fun didn't stop there Roman's and countrymen, they were passing my documents around willy nilly with my previous name on top. Now for those of you who aren't in the loop, "transsexuals" TS for short (not transvestite or shim or shemale) once they have ahem "affirmed" their core gender, been on hormones for 2 years and had bits hacked at by surgeons with late model Porsche's and 50 year old wives that look like 14 year olds, they can finally have their birth certificates amended to their correct gender. Believe me when I say all of this isn't for the faint hearted and light of pocket. FFS I was even able to adjust my school records to my affirmed and government endorsed shiny happy new gender. Well not so shiny happy and new as it were, it was 13 years ago and I always new my gender as female anyway, could of saved "them" a whole lotta trouble if they had just "asked" or "listened" (I remain the optimist). So here I am 13 years down the track and that "profoundly horrible male name" my mother mistakenly gave me (god bless her cotton socks) at birth comes back to haunt me right at the moment I am feeling my most vulnerable. "Oh I'm sorry"the robocrat says, it’s just government policy. OK its "still" government policy to make transsexual men and woman feel humiliated and disrespected because some old school C-heads not only don't care about the issues of TS men and woman but would probably scoff in disgust if they did. Well apparently its not over, I have to once again drag my presently useless tired old burnt out tranny carcass back to Circuslink for more government funded unusual punishment and humiliation so as I can receive the assistance I have worked so hard and payed my taxes to deserve if I had ever needed it. It reminds me of when changing my gender I was ushered into a tiny room at BDM's to be read out my rights which included, “it would be fraudulent for me to get married.................yes you guessed...........to anyone”??? Well my funny fury little BDM friends I went out and got married, so arrest me. I dare you (yeah thought so). This is what we call in the” Imaginative Transsexual Handbook" A bad tranny day. Oh forgot to mention, the document that had that hideous old inappropriate name on it also had my husband’s name next to it. OMG it looked like a real same sex marriage lol.
Centrelink and State and federal Government, 0 stars EPIC FAIL
Last edited by datkindagal: 20th February 2009 at 12:06 PM
The Centrelink Shuffle (Review)
