bureaucracy
For the past few weeks I’ve been stressed about my application for permanent residency. It is not so much on whether I would get a PR or not, that I will worry later but obtaining the right documents fast. And the thing is, nothing is fast in day and age of technological advancement. This is because with civilisation, apart from the advancement of science and technology, comes the bad part about civilisation – bureaucracy.
You know how it is. You ask for something, a document for example and the person whom you are speaking to has no power to say yes or no if it is out of his or her job scope. So that person has to ask to supervisor, who in turn has to ask for his or her supervisor who holds the power to say yes or no but is unable to because of bureaucratic constraints. In any case, the supervisor gives the answer to the first supervisor mentioned without giving a reason who in turns gives the answer to the person whom you talked to in the first place. In turn you will ask for a reason and the person attending to you has to get back to you as soon as the bureaucratic loop completes another circle.
Despite such painful events such as banging the table on the student central on a helpless employee who knows nothing except to do what he is programmed to do and not take initiative, I still have faith in mankind. That is before mankind self-destructs.
O how I long for Jesus’ second coming….
You know how it is. You ask for something, a document for example and the person whom you are speaking to has no power to say yes or no if it is out of his or her job scope. So that person has to ask to supervisor, who in turn has to ask for his or her supervisor who holds the power to say yes or no but is unable to because of bureaucratic constraints. In any case, the supervisor gives the answer to the first supervisor mentioned without giving a reason who in turns gives the answer to the person whom you talked to in the first place. In turn you will ask for a reason and the person attending to you has to get back to you as soon as the bureaucratic loop completes another circle.
Despite such painful events such as banging the table on the student central on a helpless employee who knows nothing except to do what he is programmed to do and not take initiative, I still have faith in mankind. That is before mankind self-destructs.
O how I long for Jesus’ second coming….
Finger Acrobatics Performed
On Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 1:53 pm.
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