Keyword: Bureaucracy

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.

Definitions Government

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the buck or spend it.

Government

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

A giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright
Government

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

(1925 – 2010) American humorist & writer
Government Situations

A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.

Government

Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

Government organization

Oxymorons

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Give a civil servant a good cause and he’ll wreck it with cliches, bad punctuation, double negatives and convoluted apology.

(1928 – 1999) British politician & diarist
Occupations People Work

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Government

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Problems

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws