Friday 16 September 2011

The happy tale of administration

Person A has a job to do and can do the job.
Person B has no job.
Person B is given a job to help Person A.
Person B cannot help Person A.
Person B creates a complicated hierarchy of forms for Person A to fill out.
Person A has a job to do and cannot do the job.
Person A hires Person B to help Person A.
Person B can help Person A.
Person A and Person B both have a job to do and can do the job together.

6 comments:

  1. so that explains the Public Service!

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  2. I was thinking that it applied to my office.... except for the last line

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  3. The public service is as much designed as Canberra is. It started off as an error in administration, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error, but only administrators could fix it, but when they fixed it the administrators created another error... etc etc etc, four years later and the public service was invented...

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  4. ahhhh ... god bless the lovin' bosom of mother APS :D

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  5. Hey Buttocks, what goes on?

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  6. the local council can only sigh and dream of such aspirations

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