A course with real value

[hopeandprey]

I suggested to a faculty member today that there should be a class in the Engineering Management curriculum dedicated to understanding how to deal with bureaucracy in large organizations as that’s the worst part of any of our projects. On the way home, Bill and I were discussing this ‘Bureaucracy In Action’ elective and I think we’ve got a pretty

Comments

[vo0do0chile]

the second semester should somehow involve, medicaid, social security or the food stamp office. Or all three. Non-profits deal with bureaucracy all the time... the part that I deal with isn't that bad because we have everything we need to do to please the bureaucracy enough to get money down to a science at this point. The person who does the billing to said bureaucracy's has an anneurism at least monthly because she deals more directly with the bullshit. The clients starve and go homeless while waiting for social security to bother to review their case because it generally takes a couple of years, but you can't work at all during the review period or they'll assume you're fit to work and drop the case. Of the ones that have been lucky enough to get social security, several of them never got their 2009 proof of income and had to go down there to get it... but if you have a payee, they often won't talk to you at all unless your payee is there, even if all you want is a letter stating your annual income and don't have any changes

[vo0do0chile]

i know this is an old post, but I would like to to add that when you give them the paperwork, you should treat it as thought it should have been turned in 3 months ago and start dropping their grade 1 point every day it takes them to turn it in. Don't tell them anything about this until at least 2 weeks in to the process.