(Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints on a GREAT season and their first Super Bowl Championship.)

VIENNA, Austria-

It doesn’t really matter where in the world you live, if it’s even somewhat civilized, there will be bureaucratic bullshit. Sometimes things I hear about here in the Untied States really anger me, and I know they anger you too. But I guess the reality is that bureaucratic bullshit is here to stay.

And here is a perfect example of how ridiculous a bureaucracy can really be. Bills are bills and without the risk of destroying ones credit, the bills must be paid. It’s a part of life that everyone over the age of 18 must deal with. In Vienna, Kronen Zeitung actually did pay his trash collection bill on time, however, he misread the amount due and underpaid it by 36 euros cents, about 50 U.S. cents. But instead of tacking the underpayment on to his next bill, the trash company took it to the courts, who sent a debt collector to the man’s house to collect it.

I wonder how much it cost in gas and salary to send a debt collector to Kronen Zeitung’s house, all in the hopes of collecting the measly 50 cents? This is not the first time I have heard of something this ridiculous. It seems to happen all too often, someone or some company spends a small fortune in the attempt to collect a small amount back.

The moral of the story: All too often people and companies get caught up in bureaucratic bullshit and don’t take the time to really look at a situation and ask if it’s really being handled in the correct and most efficient manner. After all, isn’t that what a bureaucracy is really supposed to be about?

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