Revetting

amacca

Anyone gone through the revetting process recently..want to remain registered in case I want to go back

Currently in the middle of it....got through the Teaching Council bit (albeit with poor user experience on site in terms of login process, no onscreen confirmation when certain things done, password reset stalling and having to phone in etc)

Now I get to stage two and first thing I encounter is a request for the same things I have already supplied to Teaching council....ID and proof of address....begs the question why it was necessary to supply it in first stage...duplication.…

There is one change however, the ID has to be certified....that means additional hassle .... I now have to get a printed copy of ID and go to a physical location and queue for a garda to sign it ....then rescan this for upload to the portal for the second stage I assume?

Is this correct? Financial Institutions etc et take scans of passports for ID verification...they don't need certification...that's more time consuming and more hassle

I'm already dreading trying to remember dates I resided (albeit briefly) in the states, europe and within Ireland etc ....I have hope they will just ask if address has changed from the last time and I won't have to go hunting for details again...surely if it was OK last time we are only wondering about intervening 3 years....but I doubt it

On top of just wondering if the certification for the ID is required I suppose I wanted to ask if anyone here is finding the increasing amount of mindless admin and duplication of very similar tasks you have to do to interact with any services, local authority etc etc these days is starting to become not just onerous but faintly **** ridiculous when you consider it all together....on a once of basis for one thing it seems minor...add it all up and you are spending significant chunks of time doing repetitive, boring, mindless admin on an increasingly regular basis

One thing I could do is keep a record somewhere of previous addresses so I eliminate the what address when issue every three years but has anyone any tips to minimise this **** down to the least amount of time taken of one's short short life

ie: every service now requires annual review (if you dont you will be getting the worst deal and gradually impoverished) and in many cases upload docs etc..also in some cases the process doesn't work and requires hours on phonelines selecting numbers and listening to inane shite just to get to talk to someone with zero flexibility outside a script before you eventually get to domrone who has some degree of autonomy and sense and can resolve a non-standard issue etc and occasionally requires a third party org/regulator/ombudsman to get an issue that shouldn't happen resolved

Insurances...health, motor, home, public liability

Legal, accountancy, consultancy

Services like streaming, broadband, mobile contracts, utilities

I also do this for elderly parents

In business its increasing compliance and record keeping, paperwork

Verification, here there everywhere ...I'm sure I am forgetting many things but there seems to be barely a day goes by some time isn't robbed off me scanning documents, dowloading forms, filling out **** forms etc etc

And that's before I actually do any work.....this stuff is gradually encroaching more and more on my time and seeping into the increasingly smaller bits of life where a person gets to actually live in peace...

Anyway I know this is a bit ranty but sweet Jesus I can't seem to get out from under the admin....modern life has conspired to make me my own secretary and bury me in a mountain of never ending admin