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>The Post Office resisted the SPMs' reports of faults in the system, insisted that the SPMs make up any shortfall of money and, when asked by an SPM, denied that other SPMs had reported problems.

Seems more like a very toxic culture of shifting blame led to those suicides, with the bugs just being a catalyst.




The bugs were causing very real financial distress it sounds like, if the software was partially responsible for determining their continued employment


Normal people would see dozens of staff members reporting the same issues as a reason to get the bugs fixed.

Some of the stuff that came to light in that scandal was so extreme, that it's clear the leadership was a bit deranged. Crazy people produce crazy results.




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