Generally seen as lacklusters who at the same time want efficiency and who are usually associated with big things like the civil service and wads of paperwork. Though generally such types don't exist anymore, the stereotypical bureaucrat's favourite colour is brown of some variety and enjoys sucking the life out of stuff by involving lots of forms and not doing a lot themselves by delegating responsibilities yet retaining their power. Bureaucracy is thus a negative thing and to be avoided at all costs. You must remember not all bureaucrats are bad, look at Sam Lowry in Brazil. He just tried to correct someone else's mistake and so ended up...well i'd better not spoil it if you haven't seen the film but its bad. Thus disproving the point if all the good ones...having something bad happen. Just avoid bureacrats and all those kids whom aspire to be ones.
Examples of such bureaucracy containing bureaucrats for you to avoid include Banks, The Civil Service in Yes (Prime) Minister, 1984, Brazil Ministry of Information, Vogons
by TedV48 January 9, 2008
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When a bureaucrat was giving a speech about how much work the government was getting done, I yelled, "Get off the stage you bureaucratic parasite!" They always lie and act like the government is working efficiently.
by BureaucraticParasite February 20, 2017
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Those bureautwats have fucked it up again.
by urban-wordsmith February 11, 2009
Get the Bureautwat mug.The large amount of unnecessary paperwork generated by a government agency that litters the desks, offices, and email accounts of anyone who conducts business with them.
Usually consists of copious amounts of forms to get permission to fill out other forms that require multiple levels of approval along with original signatures of individuals who are on vacation for a duration of which negates the original intent of completing the form.
Usually consists of copious amounts of forms to get permission to fill out other forms that require multiple levels of approval along with original signatures of individuals who are on vacation for a duration of which negates the original intent of completing the form.
John D. compiled a large amount of bureaucrap on his desk in a desperate attempt to notify the Army Corps of Engineers that concrete will in fact get hard when water is added.
A large file cabinet full of bureaucrap fell over which resulted in the death of a young boy. During the impending investigation the file cabinet along with the bureaucrap it contained was confiscated and impounded. This caused an emergency meeting of the involved parties to determine if the confiscation of all the bureaucrap will effect project completion and the cost impact of losing the important bureaucrap. It was determined that the confiscation of the file cabinet resulted in a increase of production due to the removal of clutter from the office and a cost savings due to not having to pay some one to store it at project completion.
A large file cabinet full of bureaucrap fell over which resulted in the death of a young boy. During the impending investigation the file cabinet along with the bureaucrap it contained was confiscated and impounded. This caused an emergency meeting of the involved parties to determine if the confiscation of all the bureaucrap will effect project completion and the cost impact of losing the important bureaucrap. It was determined that the confiscation of the file cabinet resulted in a increase of production due to the removal of clutter from the office and a cost savings due to not having to pay some one to store it at project completion.
by The Submittler December 10, 2010
Get the bureaucrap mug.(verb) The act of putting an idea, proposal or document through examination by a bureaucracy or bureaucratically minded administrator.
"I had a great idea but I don't know what it'll look like once management gets done bureaucrapping all over it."
by ak4mc September 6, 2011
Get the bureaucrap mug.-a nation of politicans making and enforcing so many rules and laws that you can't do anything w/o breaking one
the United States has become a "bureaucracy"
by newfy777 February 14, 2009
Get the bureaucracy mug.The greatest mind who has ever lived is long-dead and will never be known... And in the wake of his discovery of the fact that everyone and everything can be organized; the outcome of the lives of a plurality of humanity have been set in stone.
Iam "YOU have been organized. And under the ambulating gears of the infinite clockwork you lives are rendered inconsequential. YOU have been accounted for. A golden pyramid of gears ascending towards the heavens. And at the top of the pyramid a lever. And the lever controls the horde. And the man who sits in front of the lever walks (alone) with God. He gives everything it's place. Bureaucracy gives way to government. YOU have been governed. Forever-nested in the organizational system that predates your birth. The gears spin faster at the bottom. Don't mind the people falling off the edge. It is all within the acceptable parameters."
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