.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

11) Bureaucracy. Today I wanted to book a room with a computer to work in, but first I wasn't allowed because the woman in charge of room bookings thought I was a student (that always happens), and then I wasn't allowed because all the rooms for two people with computers were booked, and THEN I wasn't allowed because she decided I should be booking under another department.

So I went to the other department and the woman there said I wasn't allowed to book their room either, and should book a room in another building. I pointed out that the rooms in the other building did not have computers, so she said I should book with the original woman who I tried to book with in the first place. I told her that Woman 1 wouldn't let me.

Woman 2 then went to have a "word" with Woman 1, and came back and told me to go and see Woman 1 again and everything would be fine. So I went to see Woman 1 again and instead of biting my head off, she was all nice and smiles. And she wrote my name down again, on top of the tippex which she had put on top of my original booking.

When I left the building about 30 minutes later, she was still drawing pink lines in her room bookings book with her highlighter pen.

I am like, WHAT?!