US Surgeon General Employment Verification

This is underrated. It highlights the stupidity of - I don't know exactly the term, but process or algorithmic decisions making, basically taking autonomy away from people and replacing it with some kind of mindless form filling.

Maybe it never existed, but there is the old fashioned idea of putting on a suit and going to talk to the bank manager about a loan and having a real person make a judgement call. While there may be problems with that model, it still had a lot of benefits over being denied something because the form isn't designed for it.

This is what happens when you tell your employees they're only allowed to follow a script and not to use their brains.

this is what bureaucracy and red tape looks like.

you have multiple chain of commands and grunts at the lower levels with minimal authority (or incentive) to show initiative- leading to a lot of frustration and hair pulling by the customer.