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Bureaucracy in Action

By Mark Shead 3 Comments

One of my clients is a Fortune 500 company.  They need some help setting up some software for their developer teams.  According to their contractor policy, no consultant can come on the premises unless they have a signed PO.  That seems to make sense, but here is the problem:  They recently upgraded their PO system and it didn’t quite go according to plan.  No one in the entire company can create a PO.  So I can’t come on their property until the system is fixed.

What would be really ironic is if I was the person they needed to fix their purchase order system. I wouldn’t be able to fix it until it was working. :)

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  1. Ron Larson says

    May 2, 2007 at 2:47 am

    Joseph Heller would be proud!

    Reply
  2. habben says

    May 2, 2007 at 9:30 am

    And to think the person who made that decision gets paid the big bucks.

    Reply
  3. steegness says

    May 2, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    I’ll tack on a friend’s experience to this:

    She lost her driver’s license. To get a new one, she needs to fill out a form, and get it notarized. To get the form notarized, she needs government-issued photo ID.

    …

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