Friday, March 6, 2009

Government efficiency

Excerpt from conversation with nameless government PR person today:

Nameless PR person: What's your deadline?
Me: 4pm
NPRP: (laughing) Good luck.
Me: I put in the request at 9am.
NPRP: I just got it now [10:54am]. And you weren't home when I called... [voice trailing off, perhaps because he realized he was calling my cell, the number for which is on my voice mail at home, and which I left with the assistant who took my message.]

The previous government that was apparently so opaque and unaccountable didn't seem to have trouble returning calls within one business day. One wonders why it's so hard for the current one to do the same.

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