The little black book of red tape
tales of red tape and jobsworths
by Ian Vince
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Everyone has a call-centre story or some nightmare encounter at the hands of 'customer services' to relate. This book is a kind of compendium of such stories, a sort of almanac of the bullshit of the modern world, and a catalogue of individual heroic battles against the corporate state. It features the Derby householder who is selling off minute plots of his back garden to well wishers around the world for 1p each to prevent the council putting a bypass through it; the Shropshire bus service that doesn't stop as 'stopping disrupts the timetable'; and the hospital recently fined 2.5 million for using 'spare capacity' to treat patients quickly.
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Bureaucracy, Humor, Humor, topic, politicsPlaces
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Little Black Book of Red Tape: Great British Bureaucracy
2008, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
1409106195 9781409106197
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Little Black Book of Red Tape: Tales of Red Tape and Jobsworths
2008, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0752893793 9780752893792
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The little black book of red tape: tales of red tape and jobsworths
2007, Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0752889990 9780752889993
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