Baboons and Bureaucrats

By Kenneth Szulczyk

I've traveled to many countries and witnessed bureaucrats in all shades, colors, and sizes, working in different agencies, offices, and departments. Some bureaucrats work professionally and arduously, and possess a true desire to help people while many others work slowly, making simple tasks exceedingly difficult, treating recipients poorly, and chasing everyone away. People grumble at the long lines. They complain about the poor customer service and complicated forms and procedures. But they rarely connect the bureaucrats' impact upon society. For example, if bureaucrats make it difficult for people to renew their driver's license, then how many obstacles do entrepreneurs face as they start a business, or a homeowner applying for permits to annex another room onto the house? People, for some reason, grant the bureaucrats a free pass. However, they don't hesitate to vote leaders and politicians out of office who did their jobs poorly. Thus, I wrote this parody to express my appreciation to the world’s bad bureaucrats, and, unfortunately, the world has too many of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenneth Szulczyk
• Release date: Aug 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310476143

Kenneth Szulczyk

I was born in a small Michigan town filled with the hum and noise of factories. As I was growing up, I saw the factories close and become silent. Then hard economic times had followed. I escaped the town and enrolled into the university. Eventually, my education opened the door to the United States, and I graduated with a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. I studied environmental and natural economics. Then I used my education as a ticket to see the world.I traveled to many countries in the world and lived in three foreign countries – Bosnia & Herzegovina, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Malaysia. Currently, I teach economics and finance in a university on the exotic island of Borneo. I also write academic papers in behavioral finance and renewable energy. Furthermore, I write fiction and short stories and dabble in cooking, drawing, and scuba diving. Thus, I live life to the fullest. It looks like I am doing okay for a poor boy from Michigan.

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