Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate.
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@peter_b @dan When I was in college I had to obtain some papers and I did have to do a round of about five or so desks and queues only to end up at the first one.
The person there got snippy at me for being annoyed, to which I replied that if I'd had to circle four queues to end up at the beginning maybe I wasn't the one in the wrong.
I think. It's been a few decades. But we can do this in Argentina, too. We have the technology.
@adriano @peter_b @dan similar to my experience immigrating to Portugal. There are all sorts of places where you can get in a dependency loop of 3 or more government entities all of which insist one of the others approve a document before they can do anything. Mostly a function of AIMA (the immigration bureaucracy) being very underfunded for the load placed on it. But also, the PT bureaucracy seems to give a lot of wiggle room for untrained employees to make stuff up or ignore published rules.
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Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...
...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.
I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.
@dan nearly 30 years ago I visited one of the smaller Caribbean islands… 4 seater plane and they had to shoo goats off the runway before we landed. On arrival, a friendly chap in a smart uniform and hat at passport control inspected our passports and then directed us to customs control. He walked with us to this other desk, stuck on a slightly different hat and asked us if we had anything to declare!
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Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...
...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.
I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.
All we need is a camera and for you to be Steve Carrell for this to be perfect.
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Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...
...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.
I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.
@dan
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Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...
...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.
I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.
@dan the most funny story about someone fulfilling multiple roles.
By Dutch comedian Jochem Meyer.
Sorry it's YouTube. Sorry it's Dutch. But just very good in this context... I hope you agree, if not it's just lost in translation
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@kstatz12 @ricci @steve @dan Reminds me of when I went to pick up my diploma (I graduated in December, so no fancy ceremonies for me). The first thing I was handed was a miniature laminated black and white diploma with the alumni association printed on the back. It was so disconcerting I had to ask "Is this it?"
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@kstatz12 @ricci @steve @dan Reminds me of when I went to pick up my diploma (I graduated in December, so no fancy ceremonies for me). The first thing I was handed was a miniature laminated black and white diploma with the alumni association printed on the back. It was so disconcerting I had to ask "Is this it?"
@StumpyTheMutt @kstatz12 @steve @dan "thanks for your money (past and future)"
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@StumpyTheMutt @kstatz12 @steve @dan "thanks for your money (past and future)"
@ricci @StumpyTheMutt @steve @dan I'm also salty that I missed Buddy Guy as the honorary degree recipient by 1 year
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Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...
...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.
I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.
@dan There is a point where it becomes theatre.
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