Quote by

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.
– Charles Stross

Related Quotes:

  1. Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up-¦If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up. – Mark Buchanan
  2. I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings. – Jonah Goldberg
  3. We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align. – Dominic Riccitello
  4. Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times. – Liz Weber
  5. You may GIVE UP in self-denial but you GIVE-“IN in denial of self. – Ikechukwu Joseph
  6. What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover-¦ – Anne Rice
  7. Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us cover to protect our soulsin both cases,respect their choices. – Anjum Choudhary
  8. People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies. – Anne Perry
  9. If you read the bible from cover to cover you will want to start it all over again. You find something new each time. – Amanda Penland
  10. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. – Robert Conquest
  11. Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct. – Ryan Lilly
  12. We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child’s most important fans! – Vivian Kirkfield
  13. It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee. – Maureen Johnson
  14. Anti-digital mindsets are those -œstatus quo- types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making. – Pearl Zhu
  15. Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling. – David Sedaris
  16. The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic. – Charles Stross
  17. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. – Charles Stross
  18. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager. – Charles Stross
  19. The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it? – Charles Stross
  20. Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. – Charles Stross
  21. Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death. – Charles Stross
  22. All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. – Charles Stross
  23. Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown. – Charles Stross
  24. This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms–translation: all your bank account are belong to us– – Charles Stross
  25. Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. – Charles Stross
  26. Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera. – Charles Stross
  27. Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. – Charles Stross
  28. A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. – Groucho Marx
  29. Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose. – Neil Gaiman
  30. This is the music business. ‘Five years is five hundred years’ – your words. – Jennifer Egan
  31. The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive? – Nanamoli Thera
  32. Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. – Shannon Celebi
  33. That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells,and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water… – Antoine de SaintExupry
  34. The secret to creating a five-star sleeping environment is about using your five senses. – Stan Jacobs
  35. Five minutes ago is gone, never to be seen again. Five minutes from now, isn’t here yet….What are you going to do with it? – T L Henry
  36. Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. – Edgar Fiedler
  37. If I’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  38. Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression? – Kat Lowe
  39. Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing. – Alexander Theroux
  40. Actions speak louder than meetings. – Lee Clow

More Quotes

, , , , , ,