Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

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

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

Government

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

Government

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

Murphy’s Laws Speech

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Problems

Communism is like one big phone company.

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

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

Murphy’s Laws

A giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright
Government