If you saw this as the tagline for a job advert in the newspaper, would you be interested? If so, the Identity and Passport Service wants YOU!
Yes, it is in fact the motto they’re using to encourage people to fill the ranks of the newly-formed Identity and Passport Service as it establishes its ‘Interrogation Centres‘ across the land, in preparation for eventually rounding up and barcoding us all like cattle. Snappy isn’t it.
But ponder on it a bit… whilst the more forgiving side of me can accept this might just be a fairly clumsy attempt at implying the job won’t ever be ordinary (as people will never become so), I just can’t help reading it through more skeptical eyes.
Could a hint to the Government’s darker machinations and agenda have escaped through a HR-shaped chink in its armour here? Could ‘people becoming ordinary‘ refer to the end of dissent about ID Cards in the population, implying an eventual acceptance of government control? And that once people accept this control into their everyday lives, they imply this type of job will then become ‘ordinary‘ or commonplace – i.e. interviews and interrogation and other Identity Service related jobs will be ubiquitous?
It is also interesting to note that you can apply for these positions online, but this is done via an insecure login, and it looks like your details would be sent in cleartext over the Internet. I do hope they’ll take more care of data security when harvesting and storing our identities and private information…
