Paper Pushing Mugs

'Oh, I don't have any particular job - I'm a GENERIC bureaucrat.'

A paperwork machine spews endless paperwork

Whats ticking away in YOUR filing system?

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

IN box...OUT is wastepaper basket on fire.

Storm in the out tray

Food Chain, Inc: 'UP...DOWN'.

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

"Right, before we look at the covid figures for today, do we need another sheet of paper?"

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

'As far as clock watching goes, you take the biscuit.'

Trays on desk read: In/Out/Lose in the Shuffle.

'On your marks. Get set. Go!' - 'Come on! Keep going! You can do it!' - 'Yay! You're 8 hours closer to the grave!' - 'Oh, God.'

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

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

Bureaucracy gone mad!

'Good new. . . we're moving you to a bigger desk!'

Bureau of the Damned

Whelmed and Over-Whelmed

"It's hard for me to do my job remotely when you keep eating all of my home work."

In and In Too Deep Desk Organizers.

'Welcome aboard, Bob. Your job is to figure out what the hell happened here.'

Work avalanche

"It's a 670 page questionnaire on how to cut back on unnecessary bureaucracy!"

'Too long at his desk...we're going need surgery to cut him free.'

'Of course I'd never fire you, Nelson. You've been working here for such a long time, you've become part of the furmiture!'

'I don't know what he's doing or why he's doing it, but by golly, I love his work ethic.'

Cut and Run

Distractions: Work Disputes

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

'What's my secret? I never left work last night.'

Bureaucraze...

Herb has a brief but intense near-life experience.

'Thanks for throwing out your ideas, Perkson, but I have to throw them out too.'