Keyword: Bureaucracy

If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

Communism is like one big phone company.

(1923 – 1966) stand-up comedian, writer, social critic & satirist
Government

A giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright
Government

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.

Government Murphy’s Laws

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

(1932 – 2009) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)
People

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Government

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

(1879 – 1972) U.S. governor (South Carolina)
Government Life

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

Murphy’s Laws

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws

Give a civil servant a good cause and he’ll wreck it with cliches, bad punctuation, double negatives and convoluted apology.

(1928 – 1999) British politician & diarist
Occupations People Work

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the buck or spend it.

Government

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Murphy’s Laws

A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.

Government

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

Money Murphy’s Laws