July 02, 2004
Bureaucracy—YEA!
I once posted here about the triviality of bureacracy. I have come to learn in the past few days that I have done the ever-turning-gears-of-man a gross disservice. While we may bitch about how long it takes for an insurance claim to go through, or to get help with a little computer problem from tech support, or return an order made online, or do ANYTHING at the DMV, ultimately, the system is there to protect you—sorry to presume, it's there at least to protect me.
Without going into the details, I am now a satisfied member of the "gears-of-man" mentioned above. I was having a problem with jobs/tasks/"ideas" coming to me at work from another department. Now, these ideas must be first cleared with the head of the other department, then by the head of my department, before they end up on the desk. Yes, maybe our forms won't get updated quite as fast as before, but at least now it'll save me the headache of making changes that I later find out are not sanctioned. A card-carrying member of the evil machine? Yes. A happy employee? I'm one of those now, too.