Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:42 am  

Ajw71 wrote:

You must have missed this bit:

"Atos began running the assessments on behalf of the government under Labour"

Shameful bunch too?

Under the same contract?
i.e a contract whereby ATOS make their money by ensuring that a quota of examinees, a quota not determined by anything other than a desired reduction in cost, are refused DLA and shoved into a job market where there are 6 unemployed for each vacancy?

Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:30 am  

Funnily enough I attended an ATOS assessment this very morning. I went expecting the worst after reading many bad things about them, but I was actually pleasantly surprised at the way they handled everything. I know that's not everyone's experience of them but my own experience wasn't too bad at all.

Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:44 am  

Derwent wrote:

Funnily enough I attended an ATOS assessment this very morning. I went expecting the worst after reading many bad things about them, but I was actually pleasantly surprised at the way they handled everything. I know that's not everyone's experience of them but my own experience wasn't too bad at all.

You passed, then?

Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:49 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

You passed, then?

Don't know yet, will find out in ~2 weeks apparently. I know some people have had really bad experiences with them so I was a bit apprehensive about it but I can honestly say it wasn't anything like I had feared. Mind you, I work full-time so I was only being assessed for mobility problems not sickness benefits or ability to work so perhaps I didn't get the full works.

Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:54 am  

Derwent wrote:

Don't know yet, will find out in ~2 weeks apparently. I know some people have had really bad experiences with them so I was a bit apprehensive about it but I can honestly say it wasn't anything like I had feared. Mind you, I work full-time so I was only being assessed for mobility problems not sickness benefits or ability to work so perhaps I didn't get the full works.

Or maybe the guy just couldn't really give ATOS?

Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:07 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Or maybe the guy just couldn't really give ATOS?

It was a middle-aged woman so I batted my eyelids a bit and complimented her hair and clothes

Re: Atos calls police to stop advice being issued to disable : Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:53 am  

Ajw71 wrote:

You must have missed this bit:

"Atos began running the assessments on behalf of the government under Labour"

Shameful bunch too?

Compared to the Government we have now ? No-one can be as shameful as the lot in power now. Troll