Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Beaurocracy

I feel disowned by the service sometimes...The rules made at one level may have drastic consequences for those lower down the totem pole...

In the Horatio Hornblower stories, about a heroic sailor in the British Navy, he serves his country diligently, at risk of life and limb. But when he returns from duty he is cast aside, and made to wait for months and months on end for his next assignment on half pay...I feel like this sometimes...Although I do not have the heroic litany of deeds behind me...

Just that the wt. of administration is a faceless, unsensing mask, saying things like "Your message is important to us.."


July 2010