Life As A Bureaucrat @ Thursday June 15, 2006 04:05 pm by WunderKraut

What I’ve Been Up To

Working for a municipality can be very rewarding. It can also be mind numbingly boring.

The past two days I have been in class to learn all about the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS).

I know it is important and all seeing how my city had a 500-year flood just 12 years ago and given the fact that a large Marine Logistics Base is located here.

But still….

Mind
Numbingly
Boring

Check out this choice sentence of government speak:

National-level preparedness standards related to NIMS will be maintained and managed through a multijurisdictional, multidiscipline center, using a collaborative process at the NIMS Integration Center.

The U.S. Government, billions of tax dollars and you get a gem of a sentence.

4 Responses to “What I’ve Been Up To”

  1. on 16 Jun 2006 at 7:56 am   Cullen

    What’s really funny is that the people who write these things think that that’s the best way to write that kind of sentence. I get crap like that all the time when offices make submissions for the newspaper.

    What I want to do, sometime, is take the raw submission from say, the Equal Opportunity Office and a raw submission from our Human Resources Dept. and have each submitter read the other office’s piece. I think that may have some impact.

  2. on 17 Jun 2006 at 8:34 pm   Ken Summers

    Impact? You want impact? Start killing ignorant bureaucrats. THAT will make an impact.

    Unfortunately, it’s also illegal. No one knows why.

  3. on 18 Jun 2006 at 11:50 am   WunderKraut

    heh.

  4. on 20 Jun 2006 at 7:03 am   John

    Cullen, the author didn’t think it was the best way to write a sentence. That right there is the impact of a committe saying “but what about this?” over and over, while the author includes every caveat his bosses want to add and gradually makes an unreadable mess out of the grammar. The author then goes home, punches the bag for an hour or two, goes out to the range and expends a couple of boxes of ammo, and then drinks himself to sleep to cover the realization that the job he took becuase he wanted to help people has turned into a bureaucratic circle-jerk.

    Been there, done that, bought the t-shirts. I still have the t-shirts.