Red Tape Rebel Mugs

The worker/the man who monitors the worker/the man who wrote the draft policy guidelines on how to monitor the man monitoring the worker.

Man's house has sign reading 'Sod the council'. His neighbour says: 'Frankly, I'm amazed you got planning permission.'

"I'm afraid you neglected to submit the proper development permit application."

"I share your concern about excessive spending on administration, in fact, I've taken on some more people to look at the problem!"

'Actually, I'm a middleman.'

"We WANT you to take power over your work...And THIS is how we want you to do it!"

"...Now all we need is a product!"

'I have something to tell you, Moses...'

"The Benefits Agency is always willing to be flexible...but only under certain limited clearly defined circumstances."

'Sorry, sir, but we don't have a category for that.'

Government promises to cut adoption bureaucracy.

'It's an EIEIO!'

'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?'

"The benefits agency is always willing to be flexible...but only under certain limited clearly defined circumstances."

Ministry of Ministries.

'Item 56(B), we need to schedule a series of meetings to discuss whether we should have a meeting to look at whether we're having too many meetings!'

"To suggest that the government has nothing to do but persecute workers with trivial targets is absurd..." "We also have to write dozens of pointless procedures and meaningless memos..." "And these pathetic protocols didn't write themselves."

'Let's not go by the book.'

'I hope you have planning permission for that?'

NHS bureaucracy: 'Any chance you could get a move on.'

"What do people mean when they say the recruitment process was 'opaque'?

"Before we test this, do you know how to fill out an accident report?"

"Logic? Common sense? I don't need that. I work to rule."

"Stupid bureaucracy! I'm not allowed to recite poetry because the zoo hired me as a songbird and it isn't in the job description!"

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

"There's more to life than just ticking boxes!"

"What do you mean I can't claim these books on 'tax evasion' as a business expense?"

"Not all the job cuts had the catastrophic effects we'd worried about."

"Ask me something easy - like the meaning of life - over explaining government regulations."

Toy Soldiers - Attack Force, Defence Force, Task Force.

On this site the government will spend millions of taxpayers dollars and there's nothing you can do about it.

Planning permission REFUSED...

'I'm not filling out any home visit reports and you can't make me.'

I don't know how you managed it Madam, but you have got through to someone in authority.

Happy holidays from the IRS! To celebrate we've switched our usual red tape to red ribbon!