In a breathtaking display of brass neck, The Emirates Identity Authority has yet again announced that it's our fault we haven't elected to stick needles in our eyeballs in order to register for ID cards.
In fact, an EIDA 'senior official' apparently told Gulf News (650g) that complaceny was visible after GN's report that no fines would be imposed - and that such complacency would 'create problems'.
The website fails, the application application is a joke, the whole fulfilment process consists of asking people to queue for hours waiting for a limited number of appointments to actually make an application to be doled out and then they accuse people of complacency when they decide not to play the game?
The deadline that would absolutely not be extended oh no over my dead body no way José that is so not happening buddy has, of course been extended until February 28th. Emiratis, who started first and who make up a smaller proportion of the population, get more time for some reason - their deadline is the 31st March. And while 80% of expatriate professionals haven't registered, almost 80% of Emiratis, apparently, have. So 80% of us now have six weeks until the next 'we're serious this time' deadline.
Having created a situation where nobody in their right mind wants to go through the pain and frustration of applying, what is EIDA doing? Speeding the process up? Streamlining it? Actually FIXING the broken website so that people can MAKE appointments online as was originally intended?
Nope. It's sitting back and being, oh what's the word? Yes! That's it!
Complacent.
2 comments:
Yup, read GN this morning. Seriously, what a crock of s**t! It's appalling, newspapers parrot idiots at EIDA.
The website fails, the application application is a joke, the whole fulfilment process consists of asking people to queue for hours waiting for a limited number of appointments
You forgot to start at the beginning Alex - it started when the deadline was suddenly announced as being a year earlier than the original deadline they'd announced. I'm not sure how but you can bet that was our fault somehow too.
EIDA have always maintained it's all our fault. On one of my earlier posts about it, back in November, I reported on the ubiquitous 'official' who in a radio interview said that EIDA was completely ready in plenty of time and the chaos is all our fault. They "understood and anticipated the challenges" in introducing the system.
All chaos always is our fault. Remember the Salik fiasco? The RTA had everything working perfectly in plenty of time. The chaos was our fault because we were giving them wrong phone numbers and being complacent about buying the sticker.
Time for The Big Boss to go on surprise tours again and hold a few more people responsible for their actions.
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