Red Tape Reveler Mugs

Data entry will make surgeries longer.

'Let's not go by the book.'

'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?'

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

"...our Annual Report has been criticised for lack of clarity - well done!"

European Union Health and Safety Direcorate rules

Bureau to cut back on bureaucratic paperwork...

'I'm afraid we can't deliver your baby until your CRB check comes through.'

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.

'I hope you have planning permission for that?'

"UK government aren’t budging boss. Sole supplier or not under the new procurement regulations our new contract has to have three KPIs..."

"Staff are always complaining about supposed bureaucracy, but if no one completed form M74/cd3 then how would we know how many M74/cd3’s had been filled out!"

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

Distractions: Work Disputes

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

"Why don't you ever do any positive stories about government dysfunction?"

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

'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!'

How many workers does it take to put up a Christmas decoration?

Diabolical bureaucratic management

Planning permission REFUSED...

"Yeah, but no progress in meeting..."

'Hi this is Brussels - we're going to need to order some more red tape.'

"So we are four days into the new Procurement Act. How are you feeling?"/"I am ok and everything seems to be fine, but I miss the anticipation."

'Does he mean before or after the needs survey?'

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

A day at the UN.

"It can cut through anything ... well, almost anything. There still is governmental red tape."

Bureaucrat Walking his Pet

Bureau of Red Tape

'It's an EIEIO!'

'Of course there are more bureaucrats than field workers! It's more fun to create regulation, than to actually enforce it!'

'Of course it's a lengthy process. We feel hiring you should be as difficult as firing you.'

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

Roller skater see a sign: Nightmareville Pop. 5679 Beware Of Government Red Tape