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Being told you are stupid & useless? Reflection by Pastor Des Krull

By on February 5, 2013 in Bullying & Stress, Diary entries, Psych, Stuff

“I was once told that I was stupid and useless. It took me years to overcome that one sentence because, tragically, I believed it. However, I have since learned that it had more to do with the person who spoke those words than it had to do with me….” During my recent travel overseas, I [...]

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Exerpts from an injured worker’s diary

By on December 16, 2012 in Diary entries, Psych, Ramblings & Whinges, Serious injury, Stuff, WorkSafe Vic

I found this exerpt from my diary in 2010. Just thought I would share it in the interests of helping develop an understanding of some of the realities of having a psychiatric injury and trying to negotiate the Workover that is dressed up as Workcover. The entry was written when I was enduring months of [...]

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IME Shrink threatens us with an unfounded defamation lawsuit

By on November 24, 2012 in Diary entries, Medical Exam (IME), Shame files, WTF

Dear Mr Lawyer -Thank you for your letter. If you were up to date with aworkcovervictimsdiary.com you would have had no need to threaten us with a “defamation” lawsuit as we already published our reply to your client misguided attempt to advise us, the administrators of aworkcovervictimsdiary.com of our rights at law. This and what [...]

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aworkcovervictimsdiary is getting under “their” skin!

By on November 24, 2012 in Bullying & Stress, Diary entries, Stuff

You may have heard, through the grapevine (comment section), that aworkcovervictimsdiary.com was, again, threatened with a most unfounded and utterly pathetic lawsuit for “defamation” by an “independent doctor“, a psychiatrist no less! The most unfounded and intimidating “defamation” allegation referred to two anonymously posted comments by two injured workers-dating back almost one year ago!!! -  [...]

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Workcovervictimsdiary new forum

By on September 17, 2012 in Diary entries, Resources, Stuff, workcover forum

We have a brand spanking new, smart and fast forum! We have, however, made the decision not to import all the data (posts and comments, as well as registered users) into our new forum, for potential security issues after our site was attacked by our very own adversarial workers compensation system! See article about DoS [...]

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Injured workers medical practitioners ought to stand & speak up

By on September 4, 2012 in Bullying & Stress, Case manager (follies), Diary entries, Entitlements, Medical Resources, Tips & Tricks, Xchanging

You won’t believe it, but during the sheer stress and grief of having my site under DoS attack, I also faced ongoing “denial of service” – basic medical care – from Xchanging and my perceived adversarial case manager. On this occasion they denied me physiotherapy treatment, notwithstanding I suffer from an end stage shoulder which [...]

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WorkCover Denial of Service attack on a workcover victims diary

By on September 3, 2012 in Diary entries, Shame files, Stuff, WorkCover, WorkSafe Vic

Given the seriousness, maliciousness and viciousness of the  recent Denial of Service (DoS) attack on our website (workcover victims diary), by the WorkCover Authority, I believe this attack is well worth [re]publishing. WorkCover Denial of Service attack on a workcover victims diary In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) [...]

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Transfer of aworkcovervictimsdiary

By on August 30, 2012 in Diary entries, Stuff

As you know, aworkcovervictimsdiary has been experiencing major problems, with our site being inaccessible or very slow over the past 2 days. This is likely to have been caused by a denial of access – a kind of massive traffic jam – generated by an “entity” hiding behind a secure server, who has been attempting [...]

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A workcover Victims Diary: Intentional attack on site or over-popularity?

By on August 29, 2012 in Diary entries, Stuff, WTF

Yesterday, a workcover victims diary was off line most of the day, in particular access was impossible in the afternoon and most of the evening. Our host service provider explained to us that there was too much traffic on our site and this can be caused by an intentional attack or simply by over-popularity of [...]

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Who is investigating the multi-layered administration driving the costs of workers comp?

By on August 22, 2012 in Case manager (follies), Diary entries, Politics, Ramblings & Whinges, WorkCover, WorkCover NSW, WTF

I refer to an earlier article stating that the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has told the NSW state parliamentary inquiry that poor administration and red tape are to blame for blowouts in the NSW workers’ compensation scheme. The AMA NSW vice president told the inquiry that benefits to the genuinely injured and disabled wouldn’t have [...]

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The first year after a medium to severe workplace injury

By on August 11, 2012 in Bullying & Stress, Diary entries, Frustration & Violence, Psych, Serious injury, WorkCover, WTF

Further to John McPhilbin’s article about the Cycle of Despair, the model that we  all believe offers a fairly accurate representation of what many injured workers are forced to endure in the dysfunctional workers compensation system, I’d like to briefly resummarise an article we posted on our forum about what a medium to severe injured [...]

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workcover victims diary – update

By on June 9, 2012 in Diary entries

There is plenty going on at the moment – between desperately finding a witchcraft potion for my debilitating pain, coping with and “accepting” my dreadful condition and prognosis, trying to sleep, navigating the endless trials of being on workcover, fighting for my entitled basic home help, deciding whether or not I am prepared to literally [...]

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aworkcovervictimsdiary milestones and blog design

By on May 15, 2012 in Diary entries, Stuff

Today, marks a significant milestone for this blog. aworkcovervictimsdiary.com has had just over 150,000 page views since it’s launch in August 2011 (8-9 months ago only!). Given its increasing popularity and growing impact, some of us have been wondering whether it’s time to rethink our blog’s design and layout? Make it more official-looking? aworkcovervictimsdiary milestones and [...]

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Erin Brockovich meets an inspirational client

By on April 21, 2012 in Diary entries, Erin Brockovich, Stories

Friday the 23rd of March was a very special day for Lisa Caelenberg. She woke up thinking it was just going to be an ordinary day, which unfortunately, due to her circumstances, isn’t very pleasant. The last thing she was expecting was to have the famous Erin Brockovich turn up on her doorstep…. Erin Brockovich meets [...]

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Our formal reply to Allianz NSW workcover case managers threatening us with defamation

By on April 20, 2012 in Allianz, Case manager (follies), Common Law, Diary entries, Shame files

Further to having received a rather pathetic and and certainly unwarranted, threatening and intimidating letter from Radford Lawyers, on behalf of three lovely Allianz NSW workers compensation case managers, alleging us of defaming them, aworkcovervictimdiary.com has not been shy and has formally replied to these lovely ladies. Our marvelous  Legal representative, Atlas Legal has, most [...]

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Erin Brockovich personal visit to workcover victim – exclusive home video

By on April 8, 2012 in Common Law, Diary entries, Erin Brockovich, WorkCover, WTF

As you know, Erin Brockovich, our hero and supporter, personally visited  Workcover Victim on 23 March 2012. In this exclusive home video, Erin Brockovich and Workcover Victim also discuss the “risks” of blogging when an injured worker is on workcover. In particular, we discuss the twisted and dirty tactic used by many workcover insurance companies [...]

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