the things that matter

These are the kinds of emails from the Large Government Agency folk that I just adore.  At least this one didn’t have “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY” in the subject line (even though it is).  Those are my favorite, because they usually involve extra hours of manually typing in a new tab stop in a document or unbolding something that used to be bold.  These have to be EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY even though, if we waited a month to implement this critical tabbing and unbolding, it could be done automatically through our database and save hours of time.

The bolding: it is imperative.

But I digress.  Your tax dollars at work, lovelies:

All,

This is to notify you that the “Project Authorization” form has now been renamed “Project Assignment” as required by the [Large Government Agency Office]. You should continue to use the form in accordance with existing guidelines. Nothing has changed except the name.

Because it matters.

I do, actually, know the rationale behind the change. I also know that people spent time and our tax dollars considering that change. And, aside from a few paper pushing bureaucrats (excuse my redundancy), who fucking cares?

The mind: it boggles.