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A spoof video circulating in Canada’s public service offers a fix for the government’s malfunctioning pay system with a Rambo-like siege of the Miramichi pay centre, blowing up a backlog of pay files in a hail of machine gun fire.

Frustrations with the new automated Phoenix pay system are running high these days, especially among employees who are now facing financial problems after months with reduced or no pay.

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It’s been six months since Public Services and Procurement Canada began the ill-fated rollout of Phoenix and the department is still scrambling to fix problems that have left some employees paid too much, too little or not at all.

The latest video is a parody of the final scenes of Sylvester Stallone’s First Blood Part II. In the video, Rambo — in this case a mercenary hired by public servants to fix Phoenix — storms the pay centre with his machine gun.

He destroys 100,000 backlogged pay files, and confronts the terrified Phoenix creator who assures him: “Phoenix is an amazing program on paper as my managerial bonus will attest even though it doesn’t understand overtime, leave without pay or terminations.”