Been told the thesis is now back on track

I really hate bureaucracies sometimes. The thesis has been turned in finally. Obviously, the secretary there at the grad school office was the one rejecting it and requiring changes (which she should NEVER have been doing as she didn't even know enough to enter the thesis into the "turn in" category when it first arrived). I talked to the grad school office today, and when I was told all was good, I mentioned that the secretary shouldn't have been turning it down, I was told that didn't happen. I said, actually, that is exactly what happened. My friend had to revise it based on THAT person. So, the response was: "Well, we're all beyond that now." In other words, bureaucracies continue to defend their entrenched membership, no matter how incompetent they are, no matter how many people are injured or killed in the process. This is why we have 10 year wars that can't be stopped. This is why we have entitlement programs that no longer serve the people but serve corrupt politicians and people who have figured out how to gauge the system rather than need the system.

I almost didn't go to UOP two years back because somebody in the graduate office totally screwed up the paperwork. The next year, some mysterious person in the graduate office seriously screwed up the paperwork for three incoming graduate students to our department. 10 years before that, some mysterious person in the graduate office screwed up my paperwork to the graudate office when I was first accepted at UOP before I gave up on the process and went to Western Michigan University instead where at least they didn't totally screw up the paperwork when trying to get through their stupid paperwork system.

So, the response to these types of situations is to sweep it up under the rug and hope no one notices. The person is NEVER disciplined, which means she'll continue doing the same thing over and over again, which keeps leading to horrific results for the client, the students.

I'm most likely graduating now. Until this entity fucks that up again somehow. I don't know how she will, but I have a lot of faith in her and the system's ability to look the other way when it ends up happening regardless of common sense or those pesky standard operating procedures and regulations they fool themselves into believing might actually cause someone to do their job correctly. Yeah, I'm really steamed right now.

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