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EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies

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Summary: A reading of the EPO's letter to pensioners, the brains of the Office, or basically hogwash designed to distract from facts and instead reaffirm pensioners that there will be cuts (while EPO management hoards money and gambles with it)

THIS morning we published leaked communications addressed/directed towards EPO pensioners. To qualify for a pension or even an early retirement one cannot be too young and therefore it's safe to assume many of these people have given a couple of decades of their lives to the EPO, working at the Office well before Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos set foot there. Some people had contributed towards their pension for several decades and as much as 40 years before those two political stooges decided to undo their obligations and pretend they can just rewrite the law, based on the lie that the EPO lacks money (the exact opposite is true; the EPO grants far too many patents -- many ineligible ones too -- just to hoard money through fees).



"Instead of revoking these highly controversial plans and apologising, the EPO's management doubles down on lies and spices them up with corona."The 'good' news is that the EPO has lousy management and low-quality spinners (hired/appointed based on nepotism, not track record or qualifications). Contrariwise, former staff (mostly examiners) are not as gullible as today's management needs them to be. The letter from the Office is a bunch of 'happy talk', covering up well-spoken but poorly-constructed lies, selectively citing factoids whilst omitted key facts and misusing euphemisms.

I've not scripted any of this video, but it's not hard to see what's wrong with the EPO's letter. Even upon first or second reading. If this is how the Office shows gratitude to the people who earned the EPO its past (good) reputation, what hope is there for existing staff? Instead of revoking these highly controversial plans and apologising, the EPO's management doubles down on lies and spices them up with corona.

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