Medical Bureaucrat Pillows

"By the time I'd explained that we were instituting a 360 degree patient facing strategy with a radical new paradigm prioritising blue sky initiatives in a coordinated health management structure he'd gone and died!"

'This is Nurse Jenkins, she'll be responsible for documenting and filing your request to go to the toilet.'

A paperwork machine spews endless paperwork

"Yes Sir, I'm still working on the 'ins and outs' of their proposal."

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"You've got to fill in these forms to join the 'How to reduce bureaucracy' seminar."

'Let's not go by the book.'

"So we are agreed then, most of the targets we've set staff are completely unreasonable and we should just scrap them."

'It seems every time my business grows so does my paperwork!'

'Ok, I'm in a paperwork mood. Let 'er rip.'

'I'll be late for dinner, dear, I'm up to my neck in paperwork.'

Storm in the out tray

Quality Control

"That report on corporate redundancy... I'd like it in triplicate."

No Parking - Scandal or No Scandal

Where are they now?: Office of Management & Budget - Grumpy.

"I was hoping there'd be no meetings here."

Time for More Paperwork

Washington D.C., Acronym Capital of the World

Tug of Negotiation and Conciliation.

"We need to do something about excessive admin. I want you to fill out one of these forms every time you think you're doing some."

'One of the new targets is targeting which targets we're meant to target.'

'So do you want me to minute that George is dying of boredom and Nigel will rip my head off if I don't stop boring him with my blather?'

'I think we'd be more confident about meeting our targets if we could work out what they were!'

"Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?"

The Department of Mystery - No one really knows who we are or what we do, including us.

It's a new government directive requiring us to be 58% more cheerful within 18 months.

Moses holds up new federal regulation guidelines.

'Miss Carruthers, check and see if we have an extradition treaty with Disneyland.'

'You don't have to be a boring bastard to work here but it helps.'

"Repeat after me: We are delivering the proactive core value promises and rolling out our real time best practice action plan going forward ..."

"Simplified application form? . . . This IS the simplified application form!"

Obama Healthcare.

"Useless information"

'You can come down a peg. Mesopotamia gave the world bureaucracy, you know.'