From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Court wants to know my NI number..
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:41:20 GMT

Peter Saxton wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:06:21 +0000, Richard Oliver
>  wrote:
>>
>>That's about it.  I don't think it is deliberate incompetence - I just
>>don't think the staff are empowered to delete/merge the second and third
>>reference - particularly as they are for variations of my real name.
> 
> It may not be "deliberate incompetence" (I don't believe there is any
> such thing) but it is incompetence - even if it's by the management
> who are so far away from where the work is done that they don't think
> about it when making pronouncements from on high.

There *is* such a thing as deliberate incompetence.  Inability to
correct a mistake that has been pointed out is just incompetence,
but where there is outright refusal, it's clearly deliberate.