{"id":863,"date":"2011-02-25T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=863"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:07:05","slug":"bureaucratic-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/02\/bureaucratic-redundancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureaucratic Redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I generally try to avoid posting or saying negative things about work for fear that the fickle-demons of the internet will find out and get me in trouble but I have to share this one.<\/p>\n

I saw this today at work and just thought it was one of the dumbest things I have ever seen in my 20+ years of government service. \u00a0 I have to go through all the SOPs at work and ensure they are in the correct format as part of yearly update drudgery. \u00a0 What did I find that is so stupid you ask? \u00c2\u00a0We actually have a SOP at work about when and who is supposed to read SOPs. \u00a0 If that is not the most needless and redundant piece of bureaucracy, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what is.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>I just had to do a forehead slap and wonder who originally thought the idea up. \u00a0 Every place I have ever worked has SOPs for all kinds of stuff, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I have seen one about the rest of the SOPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I generally try to avoid posting or saying negative things about work for fear that the fickle-demons of the internet will find out and get me in trouble but I have to share this one. I saw this today at… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-historical-asides","tag-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}