Bureaucracy is bureaucratic....
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angharad_gam...big surprise...
Part of the reason bureaucracies get bad press is for obsessively adhering to a set of rules with no apparent exception for compassion or common sense.
When you work for one you begin to see that this is because when you are spending public money you have to be scrupulously careful of every penny (lest you end up like Craig Thomson) and rigorously fair and unbiased in how you spend it.
But from time to time this becomes a little wearing.
Like the fact that the travel guys can't do _anything_ towards arranging my travel until I submit a fully justified travel proposal. And I can't do that until every detail of my trip is finalised. Even though 90% of it is more or less arranged, and it is pretty much decided that I will be in Canada on such and such days (it's just the Washington details I'm trying to chase up), they can't book flights, or even arrange visas until I know what I'm doing on the last two days of a two week trip.
*sigh*
And my homework is frustrating, and I am braindead, but I will have no time to do it tomorrow, because there is grocery shopping and boffer and then Andy and I are going out to dinner together (alone - the two of us - if that is not an oxymoron) for his birthday.
Part of the reason bureaucracies get bad press is for obsessively adhering to a set of rules with no apparent exception for compassion or common sense.
When you work for one you begin to see that this is because when you are spending public money you have to be scrupulously careful of every penny (lest you end up like Craig Thomson) and rigorously fair and unbiased in how you spend it.
But from time to time this becomes a little wearing.
Like the fact that the travel guys can't do _anything_ towards arranging my travel until I submit a fully justified travel proposal. And I can't do that until every detail of my trip is finalised. Even though 90% of it is more or less arranged, and it is pretty much decided that I will be in Canada on such and such days (it's just the Washington details I'm trying to chase up), they can't book flights, or even arrange visas until I know what I'm doing on the last two days of a two week trip.
*sigh*
And my homework is frustrating, and I am braindead, but I will have no time to do it tomorrow, because there is grocery shopping and boffer and then Andy and I are going out to dinner together (alone - the two of us - if that is not an oxymoron) for his birthday.
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Date: 2012-05-25 07:12 pm (UTC)Honestly, that man's excuses get more and more bizarre every day.
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Date: 2012-05-26 12:50 am (UTC)He should have just claimed 'identity theft'. It's a lot easier to believe.
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Date: 2012-05-26 01:44 pm (UTC)