Told to me by a Master Sergeant I worked with.
He worked in an old, run down set of offices on Base. They had crappy linoleum floors, and the Airmen in the building in the building spent hours every week mopping and polishing the floors, because, hey, free labor.
A buddy of his worked in a nicer building, and mentioned that their building had carpet, but it was in terrible shape. They were supposed to get new carpeting in a few weeks.
The First NCO called up Civil Engineering, since they maintain the buildings. He asked to have carpet installed in his building.
They told him that the Command that "owned" the building had to pay to have carpeta installed, and his Command did not do that.
He asked about his friend's building, since they were in the same, command. He was told that replacing carpet was different. Once it was installed, replacements came out of the Base's budget, not the Command's.
When the carpet was replaced at the newer, nicer building, he took a bunch of Airmen over, and got the old worn out carpet out of the dumpsters. They spent a weekend spreading out in their building.
A couple of weeks later, he called up Civil Engineering, had an inspector come out, and pointed out their carpets were worn out. He had new carpets three months later.
Any bureaucracy breeds workers able to survive in a bureaucracy.
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