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Me, calling the GP’s office I applied for us to join last month: “Hi, I applied in December and haven’t heard back, I was wondering…”

Receptionist: “If you haven’t heard back, it wasn’t successful. It’s luck of the draw…”

Me: “Umm, ok, do you keep applications in queue and…”

Receptionist: “No, we don’t”

Me: “So do we just have to keep reapplying?”

Receptionist: “Yes.”

On the other hand, I could have an Apple Watch delivered to my door tomorrow if I order it now.

Yay, capitalism.

Aral Balkan

Now, as I see it, I have two options; either: (1) apply elsewhere and hope they have a better system or, (2) code a quick bot that submits a new application to them every day.

And I do like writing code, so…

🤔

@aral
on the other hand, you have to wonder what other systems they (don't) have in place that would make being a client with them a dreadful decision.

@aral whoever says you can't fix social problems with technological solutions has never dealt with bots annoying someone into doing what you want. 🤣

@aral There ought to be some law of the internet -

"Never ask a programmer to perform a task that is boring, repetitive, and amenable to automation".

Also why stop at one per day? One per second should tip the odds of getting selected in your favour...

@aral
Oh I vote for the bot! Send them a message every hour.half !!!

@aral wait you have to apply to GPs here now? I thought you just rang them up and made an appointment

@IanMoore3000 Nope, you have to be registered with them first.

@aral I've heard of people writing bots for this exact purpose, booking appointments that were supposed to be otherwise innocuous.

Code the shit out of this bot, @aral