{"id":573881462,"date":"2011-04-09T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881462"},"modified":"2011-04-09T23:34:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T04:34:01","slug":"bureaucratic-efficiency-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/bureaucratic-efficiency-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureaucratic efficiency in action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ask a question of one person, get passed to another. That second person also can’t provide you with the piece of paper you seek. Instead, she sends you to another building\/department. The person there who tries to help must ask another person.<\/p>\n

And then you must fill out a form. The purpose here is to make sure there is A File so that the paperwork monster can be satisfied.<\/p>\n

I came to this second building for a piece of paper. The purpose of this piece of paper is so that I may return to the original building to get the actual piece of paper I need. After filling out the form I am told to Wait. I’m given a beeper, like it is Friday night at the steakhouse. <\/p>\n

When the thing buzzes I look around for the person who’s turn it is to try and help me. That’s down a hall, around a corner and down another hall.<\/p>\n

“It is kind of confusing,” a regular says.<\/p>\n

More paperwork is filled out. The net result is zero. Seems all of this paperwork can’t improve on the situation. But!<\/p>\n

At this point I make phone calls because, really, verification is needed.<\/p>\n

I learn I can download a form. If it is filled out, faxed off, filled out by others and faxed back to me I can then take it to a third<\/em> building across town.<\/p>\n

You might think I’m trying to replace a birth certificate and social security card simultaneously. I am not. Comparatively this is nothing that traumatic. Or it shouldn’t be. I can’t imagine the chore a task like that must be.<\/p>\n

And, now, a picture of a man who can’t park:<\/p>\n

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Ask a question of one person, get passed to another. That second person also can’t provide you with the piece of paper you seek. Instead, she sends you to another building\/department. The person there who tries to help must ask another person. And then you must fill out a form. The purpose here is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,28,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-friday","category-iphone","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881464,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881462\/revisions\/573881464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}