Keyword: Bureaucracy

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

Government

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

Murphy’s Laws Speech

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

Money Murphy’s Laws

An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.

Definitions Government

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Communism is like one big phone company.

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

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 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 giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright
Government

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

Murphy’s Laws

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

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

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

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

Murphy’s Laws

Government organization

Oxymorons

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

Government

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

Murphy’s Laws

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

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