Getting bounced from one bureaucracy to another to another ad nauseum, with not one of them actually helping you at all.
I wanted to get a free COVID-19 test done on me and was initially told that this one bureaucracy could do it. After I arrived over there, they told me they couldn't help me at all and that I had to go to this other department. After arriving at the second department, I was told that they couldn't help me as well and that my best bet was to just go to Walgreens or CVS. I just got done setting up an appointment with Walgreens. Hopefully, Walgreens can help me out. This whole game of musical bureaucracies totally sucks ass!
by bushnest November 8, 2023
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“I just wanted to update my address, but eBay’s digital-bureaucracy made me verify my identity with a pigeon and a moon landing certificate.”
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Maximum Viable Bureaucracy refers to a process or agency that does its best to complicate and confuse what should be a straight forward action. Antonym of “efficient” and “expedient.”
Manually entering the same new hire data in a Sharepoint site, spread sheet and attached email form shows the U.S Postal Service operates on a Maximum Viable Bureaucracy (Max VB) philosophy.
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Manually entering the same new hire data in a Sharepoint site, spread sheet and attached email form shows the U.S Postal Service operates on a Maximum Viable Bureaucracy (Max VB) philosophy.
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A bureauscape is beautiful in the sense that zoomteractions are bad and therefore people need to talk head to head with others. Not just use a computer.
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