Bureaucrat's Corner: Bertrand the Bureaucrat's Domain

Welcome to the lair of Bertrand the Bureaucrat, Lord of the Red Tape.

Bureaucrat's Corner is a place where the most soul-crushing, creativity-squashing, and soul-sucking of bureaucratic excesses come to play.

Here, you can find the most Byzantine of policies, the most Byzantine of procedures, and the most Byzantino of Byzantine-ness.

Bureaucrat's Corner is a place where the phrase "it's not my job" is the highest compliment one can receive.

Want to see more of Bertrand's Byzantine bureaucratic wonders?

• Committee of Conundrums
• Committee of Conniptions
• Bureaucratic Wizardry: Bertrand's Secret Formulas

Don't forget to bring your earplugs, for we're about to get very, very loud in here.

(Disclaimer: Not responsible for hearing loss or existential dread)

Now, if you'll excuse us, we have a meeting to attend...

Or, if you will, we have a meeting that we're not going to attend, but will instead send a 20-page memo about.