You know, as far back I can remember I have wanted to be in a position to create useless red tape. I told my mother this, in fact, in Middle School. Therefore, I am pleased to know that I was until recently a “mid-level officials [who] can sit on requests for months if [I] choose.” It is too bad, therefore, that no one told me at the time that the 10-15 day turn around time that I was held to so closely was really optional…
US to sell military goodies to India
August 28th, 2003 · 6 Comments
Tags: Defense
6 responses so far ↓
1 Ed // Aug 28, 2003 at 7:21 pm
I wanna create red tape too!!!! Beep!
2 trav // Aug 29, 2003 at 9:01 am
These approvals aren’t lost in review, dear. They’re lost ‘in transit’.
3 nic // Aug 29, 2003 at 9:39 am
Funny that, since the entire approval process is done on-line in a Citrix database. There is no paper copy transit.
Would it kill people to find out about the process that they are so hot to criticize? Is it even remotely possible that India was denied dual-use technologies for US national security reasons? Is it conceivable that I was employed to find out if foreign purchasers were reliable recipients of our sensitive technologies and not just as part of some vast US jobs program?
4 scotty the body // Aug 29, 2003 at 11:07 am
“Citrix database”? yikes
anyway, i want YOUR job! sounds cool.
5 nic // Aug 29, 2003 at 11:22 am
Don’t get me started on the damned database. I can’t count the number of times it froze up and threw me out.
But I quit that job last month. I’m a missile analyst now, luv.
6 Chris // Sep 1, 2003 at 9:28 am
Mmmm. Analyze things that go BOOM! That soundsl ike the perfect progression of my pyro tendancies from just making really overly-large campfires!
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