Drama for the sake of drama

I'm currently working a temporary job with the Registrar of Voters. It seems that no matter where I look in this job, I see nothing but drama. We have drama queens we work with, drama queens who are on the periphery of where we work, and then outright drama for the sake of drama. What I mean by this last part is that we have situations that have been created just to be dramatic.

Example: We don't know how much we get paid. Or when. Or by whom. The one place that one would assume we get paid by indicates that we're supposed to be paid by the university. The university says that it's not this department in the university but this other one. That other department says it's not that department but actually the Registrar of Voters. So, we're told to continue working, because obviously we'll be paid. By someone. Sometime. For some amount of money.

In these bureaucratic environments, this guy doesn't like this other guy who doesn't like this other guy. One other person likes this other person, but doesn't like this other person because he or she is friends with yet another person. This person has a certain amount of information about pay, but he or she doesn't want to reveal it because that would mean revealing "important" information. It's like playing Poker with Machiavelli and M.C. Escher in Section 31 of Kafka's castle.

Stumble It!