Bureaucratic Labyrinth Adventurer Mugs

Ideology and bureaucracy

A paperwork machine spews endless paperwork

'I want to claim for black marker pens.'

'That's my 'job security' barometer.'

'Staffers don't report we're managing decline. They report we met our targets and did out job!'

"Ticket and passport, please."

"Procurement and their stakeholder journey down the procurement pathway... Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

'We can't cut entitlements for federal employees. We're federal employees.'

Painter removes 'wet paint' sign from park bench and replaces it with a 'dry paint' sign.

"So from the top. If they need urgent help it's form AC/765c, criticl interventions are CV/U657's and..."

"Uh oh, here come more regulations."

"Ah, you'll be wanting our red tape department, third door on the left!"

In/Out.

"The bad news is that we've had to cut most of the services. . . The good news is that we can now tell people in 23 languages what we don't do anymore!"

"I think the scientists want us to realize our world is warming and do something before future generations can't live here anymore, but it's tough to focus when cheese is so good."

Liberties: civil and uncivil.

'The new regulations arrived earlier today.'

'The dept. of agriculture says yes, the environmental protection agency says maybe, and the food and drug administration says no.'

'Federal Bureau of Technological Compliance - May I help you?'

Director: US Space Research.

"We got this. I was born in a corn maze." CS629922

"Our first target is to work out what our target is."

People being buried under enormous falling tax credit forms.

'These are the people who'll be line managing you.'

"I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules around here. But I'd be happy to connect you with any number of people who think they do!"

A minotaur in a cubicle labyrinth

'My ambition is to discover the Great American Loophole.'

Guru in a maze.

"Can't find your office, doc?"

"It's funny how two intelligent people can have such opposite interpretations of the tax code!"

'Individually we could do nothing. So we formed a committee which determined nothing could be done.'

"Your appointment's been cancelled. You took too long filling out those forms."

"No, this is the department for obfuscation, hindrance, confusion and prevarication...you want the department for sophistry, incomprehension, fudging and evasiveness!!"

The bureaucrat on his way to work...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single travel requisition."