I always thought that Podlasie was poorly run and full of absurdities… until I moved to Pomerania. Not that I regret it, BUT… the level of incompetence in the local judiciary and bureaucracy continues to surprise me.
I received a call today from an unknown number. Usually, I don’t pick up, but something told me it was important. And as usual, that “something” was right – it was the secretary of the District Court in Słupsk informing me that I have an appointment with an expert in two days… in Słupsk… over 130 km from Gdańsk. Why the court decided to send me all the way to Słupsk, nobody knows… and I didn’t even receive a summons by mail.
I was about to give the Polish Post a piece of my mind for their incompetence, but THIS TIME it wasn’t them. The Court of Appeal in Gdańsk provided the District Court in Słupsk with the wrong address… I want to point out that I had reported my change of address long before the appeal. After the appeal, all correspondence was coming to the address where I live.
So why the hell did they give them the wrong address?
If it weren’t for the phone call from the secretary, I wouldn’t even know I was summoned for an examination. And the question is – will I have to regularly go to the post office and ask about further letters? As if I didn’t have enough “fun” already.
Recently, I received a summons to a disability determination committee. Well, they need to check if Jesus hasn’t come, hit me with a beam of pure divine love, and healed me. The summons came with… incorrect data! They changed my name from Magdalena to Małgorzata. Damn it, if it weren’t for my rare second name, I would have thought they sent someone else’s summons to me by mistake! Of course, I had to clean up the entire mess myself.
Not to mention that the “judge” of the District Court in Gdańsk issued an unlawful ruling in the disability pension case without appointing a medical doctor expert. Oh well… psychiatrist, psychologist… such similar names. She might have gotten confused! This was the basis of my appeal.
Where the hell do such people come from?
Why are they in such responsible positions? People lose their jobs over smaller mistakes! And then people wonder why nothing works normally in Poland…