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Bureaucratic Procedures

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

'What happened to that efficiency report? I had it in my hand not two minutes ago.'

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

Considering she started here as an office temp she's done quite well.

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

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

"Just as I thought! You used our competitor's paper for your resume!"

-"Wife and kids?" -"No, a photo of a set of beautifully prepared accounts."

'OK, who moved the photocopier?'

Boxes marked 'In', 'Out' and 'How did this end up on my desk?'

Human Resources Dept: Full time/part time/over time/time and a half/time out.

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

"Not succinct or to the point Ambrose...just how we like it!"

'Making staff get a sick note after one day is essential if we're to make the whole system work more efficiently!'

Welcome Bureaucrats! (Convention of bureaucrats).

Fenton always makes a backup hard copy of his mental notes.

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

Colin finds it difficult to let go of paperwork.

'She files things on a biblical basis. Seek and ye shall find.'

IN, IN OVER MY HEAD

The boss and her baby

"Where would we BE without the right DOCUMENTATION...?"

Files.

"It was going to be a high-rise office building. But after three bricks, they ran out of money."

'Ms. Grimmett, I sort of liked the old filing system...in the file cabinets.'

"Oh I don't work here, I just love filling out forms."

File room: A subsidiary of the black hole of the universe

"He may be dead but according to this survey his paperwork is WORLD CLASS!"

"You go on without me; I'm just going to riffle through some papers. I so love to riffle."

"I always said I'd sleep when I'm dead, and yet here I am doing paperwork."

'First, I want you to get your dependents off my desk.'

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

"Hope you know how fortunate you are...next year's tax forms get complicated..."

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