After three years as a civil servant, I have lost all patience for the bureaucratic crap we have to wade through on a daily basis. Last month we were struggling to get permission for travel funds (i.e. plane tickets and hotel rooms) for next month’s conference. We emerged from that battle a little bruised but still intact. Today we begin the fight to get permission for conference registration. Apparently the justification “I AM PRESENTING A TECHNICAL PAPER” or “I AM LEADING A TECHNICAL SESSION” is not good enough.
I am seriously thinking of joining Jo as a flight attendant. Well, not seriously thinking of that, but seriously thinking of alternate careers.
If you work for my company, you can’t present papers. Period. Secrecy and all that.
Yeah. But I bet if you could, they wouldn’t give you shit about paying for your travel and registration.
Quite true.