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Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 31 Jan 20

I am now playing the waiting game. Waiting for a phone call for an interview to get the help I need. We have already completed one, now we are waiting for our next one to be set up. At least we are headed towards the end of the...

waiting

red tape

help

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Join Me For A Coffee

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 29 Jan 20

Yesterday I visited a government agency to see if I could get some help with medical. bills and such. After all the disappointment and misinformation I have gotten recently from several very prominent agencies I was not really...

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I Hate Dealing With the Department of Motor Vehicles

Sherry @norcal (4889) • Franklinton, North Carolina 19 Feb 19

Since I moved to North Carolina, I have been trying to get my car registered here. It's different than California. There is a license plate location that is separate from the Department of Motor Vehicles where I got my Driver's...

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Changing medical coverage could kill someone. How can this be?

The Horse @TheHorse (238330) • Walnut Creek, California 5 Nov 18

I left one job and had to switch to Covered California to provide me with medical insurance during the two months during which I switched to a new job. I still don't know, three months later, exactly who is covering me, and...

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Pumpkin's rant of the day: Passports

pumpkinjam @pumpkinjam (8876) • United Kingdom 6 Nov 17

Recently, I applied for passports for myself and Mini. No problem with mine other than the inconvenience of having to go for an interview and trying to find to local (23 miles away) passport office). I had a letter back...

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Not Like the "Olden Days"

Sue H. @CinnamonGrl (7086) • Santa Fe, New Mexico 10 Aug 16

I have come to really despise applications, paperwork, red tape and especially phone trees. I was trying to accomplish something recently and of course they had the automated message and I had to find the right number to press and...

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Memory: How far back does yours go?

savak03 @savak03 (6684) • United States 13 Oct 15

For months I have been planning to get a place of my own and let my kids live their own lives so they will learn how to rely on themselves instead of assuming mom will always bail them out. So I called around to the apartment...

red tape

too much information wanted

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Red tapism of government department takes away life of a pensioner.

ravisivan @ravisivan (14082) • India 26 Sep 12

A pensioner was not getting his pension though he retired on July 31, 2012. The Pay and accounts department has been raising queries about his record and this led one pensioner to frustration. this man was living in Mumbai...

government department

pensioner ends his life

red tapism

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Tex Again, another Question BP Catastrophe

TexLadyPj @TexLadyPj (1328) • United States 20 Jul 10

I'm sitting here watching the news. Boy can we spend money fast. I just found out that a way less expensive way of spotting oil slicks and distressed animals was tied up in RED TAPE. The Navy Blimp is fantastic, yet paperwork for...

bp catastrophe

red tape

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Just a Week to Go Before 2010

anne25penn @anne25penn (3305) • Philippines 27 Dec 09

In less than a week it will be 2010. People here in our country have gone holiday haywire since last week and you can see and feel it at the malls, groceries and even offices. While other countries are hectic with year-end...

appointments

red tape

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When will Stimulus Stimulate?

Quiplet @Quiplet (255) • United States 21 Aug 09

From all accounts I've read, the vast majority of the approved stimulus has not been released. If this is true, what is the delay? Will there be a 'kick' to the economy when the rest is absorbed into the states... like next...

economy

red tape

strategy

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More Red Tape...Not In A Good Mood

pyewacket @pyewacket (43903) • United States 18 Jul 08

I'm so discouraged right now beyond belief. Some months ago I related the red tape I was going through about trying to get an IRS Treasury Refund check deposited into my account. It was a refund actually for my mother, who is...

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how can one person cause fear

Goatlady @Goatlady (159) • Ireland 18 Mar 08

Well, I've received soft supports, like classes etc from my local enterprise board, but these were advertised in local media. I was expected to be content with that. I went a couple of times to try and get some grant aid so I...

politics

red tape

My "Lovely" Day At The Bank: Can We Say @$!@*%@??: Rant Part Two

pyewacket @pyewacket (43903) • United States 10 Mar 08

Yesterday I started a discussion "I Really Don't Believe This: Here Comes A Rant"...you can see it here http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1430348.aspx In the discussion I related how I discovered that my bank made a...

bungles with the bank

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i can't get a job!!!

miacis3101 @miacis3101 (82) • United States 16 Jan 08

I was born in Southern California and now I live in Pennsylvania. In the move across the country, I lost my birth certificate. Well, I have been told that in order to get a job in Pennsylvania, you technically must have a...

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The SSI Disability Fiasco--Part 3-A

pyewacket @pyewacket (43903) • United States 29 May 07

Well the next time I post my up-date on what's going on with my SSI Disability disaster and mix-up that I've been going through, I how to label it Part 4. I feel like the noose is hanging around my head a bit...as I'm hoping,...

bureaucracy

cover letter

red tape

ssi disability disaster

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Red Tape

tallpaulno44a @tallpaulno44a (1574) • United States 30 Apr 07

After the Civil War (U.S., 1861-1865), the Federal government set up offices in Washington DC to administer benefits to Union veterans. The veterans would go into the office and wait for hours while the clerks sorted through...

civil war

red tape

UK Passports

mummymo @mummymo (23706) 2 Mar 07

How many of you guys have had trouble getting passports? Just wondered about other peoples opinion on this. My friend who is 35 has just applied for her first ever passport only to be sent a letter asking for verification of who...

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Taxation on earnings ...

patootie @patootie (3592) 8 Jan 07

Do you wish that instead of having to pay taxes on our earnings and on the goods we buy, we just paid more tax on the goods and services we purchase and no direct taxation of earnings. Surely those that wished to be frugal...

earnings

red tape

tax

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The problem with bureaucracy...

dodoguy @dodoguy (1292) • Australia 3 Jan 07

Hi kiddies, anyone had a bad experience with some large organization lately? What IS it about just about any large collection of people that causes them to disregard the realities facing their clients / customers /...

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