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.