Bureaucracy
April 28, 2008
Nothing is simple for the government, and sometimes the quasi-military nature of the EOP makes me laugh. Tomorrow I have to go out to our Network Operations Center (NOC) – an underground bunker in an undisclosed location. This will be my first time there, and as such, I needed directions.
As an aside: I spent my first two weeks trying to figure out what ‘the Knock” was, as I kept hearing people talk about is. I finally had to ask someone.
Anyway… back to my trip to the NOC.
What we have, instead of simply directions, is a 5-page SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) document to provide directions to the facility. The actual directions take up about 3/4 of a page. The rest of the document is record-keeping information and instructions on the application of the directions.
If it takes five pages for simple directions, I don’t know how we can ever expect something like the tax code to be simplified?
