Appendix 3: Officially Unofficial Guidelines
For the uninitiated, Bureaucracy Inc. is a labyrinthine organization with no actual authority, but we like to pretend we're in charge.
Section 1: Unofficially Officially Adopted Practices
- Point 1: Use Comic Sans whenever possible.
- Point 2: Never use Comic Sans in actual authority documents.
Section 2: Unofficially Officially Recommended Tools and Resources
- Point 3: Use only the finest, most ergonomic staplers.
- Point 4: Bureaucracy's preferred coffee mug size: 16 oz.
Section 3: Unofficially Officially Designated Holidays
- Point 5: National Bureaucratic Red Tape Day, March 15th.
- Point 6: International Coffee Break Day, every Tuesday.
Section 4: Unofficially Officially Mandated Attire
- Point 7: Wear only black, high-contrast socks to signify authority.
- Point 8: No jeans, no exceptions.
Section 5: Unofficially Officially Required Training
- Point 9: Mandatory seminars on the history of Bureaucracy.
- Point 10: Unofficially required reading: 'The Art of Doing Nothing'.
And finally, Section 6: Unofficially Officially Unofficially Declaring...
...that these guidelines are completely, utterly, and totally optional.
Unless you're a Bureaucratic Overlord, in which case, you're already doing it right.