Red-tape Resister Pillows

Federal Department of Self-Justification

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

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

Quality Control

Moses holds up new federal regulation guidelines.

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

'Should be home soon. I'm just clearing away the usual paperwork.'

"Providing great customer care is of course important, but shall we start with how you manage forms TG-45S through to NSD-89b."

An astronaut sees a sign saying zoning in force.

He waited for the next wave of regulations to arrive.

"We need warning stickers on this side warning not to ignore all the other warning stickers on the other side."

"I'm afraid that due to a recent reorientation of forward facing customer resource functionality you're going to have to make the complaint to yourself... in triplicate."

"I told my manager that I couldn't cope with the endless mind numbing paperwork. I said I'd had enough of the bureaucracy, that I had to get out."

Fed up with unnecessary bureaucracy?...what people don't appreciate is that if they don't fill out their C90D then how can we POSSIBLY know how many C90ds there ARE!

Town Planning Department

'The government is keen not to interfere with private enterprise.'

"I'm sorry, but you'll have to get approval from the offices of Terminology, Evidence, Proof of Demand, Documentation, Measurement and Predictions before I can even think about signing off."

'The fact that the expenses process is complicated confusing and bureaucratic isn't an Aberration.'

"You had the persistence to wind your way through our labyrinthian phone system to ask for an interview...you're hired!"

"Check out my free white paper!"

Colin finds it difficult to let go of paperwork.

"People whinge about the irrelevance and duplication of paperwork, but if the forms aren't filled out how are we supposed to know how many forms have been completed?"

See District Directors

'Thank God, no tasers in my day!'

Bureau of Missing Door Knobs

Federal Bureau of Bureaucrats: 'Regulation - the mother's milk of politics!'

Ordnance: 'explode...implode'.

'I'd like the short form instead...'

Liberties: civil and uncivil.

"C’mon, Sara. Like you wouldn’t consider – even for a second – accepting an iPhone from the devil."

'Send this back to the legal department. I think they could make it much more complicated than this...'

'The idea bureaucracy is on the increase is RIDICULOUS... and I have the reports to prove it!'

Two men who work for The Federal Department of Bureaucracy look at chart 'Things to Pretend to do Today'

Department to Control Government Growth - 'We need more room.'