Oh dear. Hook line and sinker. My reference to a big wooden spoon did not
alert you to the tongue-in-cheek response?
But just to throw another spanner in the works, what if the doctor was the
forger - doing a bit of work on the side? Not possible? Why not?
Only joking - we all know the real guilty party here, don't we?
Ian B
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In a message dated 13/06/05 12:43:10 GMT Daylight Time,
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> I think this whole attitude of being obtrusive when dealing with perfectly
> reasonable requests is what has given the DPA such a bad name. You are, in
> effect, making it all the more likely that the forger gets away with it, and
> that benefits no-one. At the end of the day, we're talking about someone
> lying to their boss to cover taking time off work. This is not the great train
> robbery; do you really want our police spending their time investigating
> someone playing hooky from work, and wasting a Court's time getting a court order,
> all of which would cost the taxpayer £1,000s over a misdemeanour that cost
> the company just £100s.
>
> You say: "But if the employer receives from the hospital a statement of fact
> that the letter is forged, would not the employer automatically think the
> employee is the forger?" I say: Well, yes, obviously they would. The employee
> gave them the letter, and is the only party who could benefit from it's
> forgery. If you get shot, the man holding the smoking gun is usually to blame.
>
> You said: "Is that not personal data in the sense of "opinions"? I say: the
> opinions they form are "their" opinions, you would only have stated the fact
> that you know the letter had not been sent by you.
>
> You said: "However, if the hospital tells the employer "it is likely to be a
> forgery but we make no allegations about who may have forged this letter" it
> could leave the employer with a dilemma about whether to accuse the person
> and take action against them. I say, it is their dilemna and not for you to
> pre-suppose how the employer interprets or acts or the information you give
> them. Why would you say "it is likely to be a forgery" when you know that IT IS
> A FORGERY. All this woolly talk achieves nothing and only helps the guilty.
>
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