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    Baboons and Bureaucrats
    Baboons and Bureaucrats
    Baboons and Bureaucrats
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    Baboons and Bureaucrats

    By Kenneth Szulczyk

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    I've traveled to many countries and witnessed bureaucrats in all shades, colors, and sizes, working in different agencies, offices, and departments. Some bureaucrats work professionally and arduously, and possess a true desire to help people while many others work slowly, making simple tasks exceedingly difficult, treating recipients poorly, and chasing everyone away. People grumble at the long lines. They complain about the poor customer service and complicated forms and procedures. But they rarely connect the bureaucrats' impact upon society. For example, if bureaucrats make it difficult for people to renew their driver's license, then how many obstacles do entrepreneurs face as they start a business, or a homeowner applying for permits to annex another room onto the house? People, for some reason, grant the bureaucrats a free pass. However, they don't hesitate to vote leaders and politicians out of office who did their jobs poorly. Thus, I wrote this parody to express my appreciation to the world’s bad bureaucrats, and, unfortunately, the world has too many of them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKenneth Szulczyk
    Release dateAug 16, 2014
    ISBN9781310476143
    Baboons and Bureaucrats
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    Kenneth Szulczyk

    I was born in a small town in Michigan, filled with the noises of factories. While growing up, I witnessed factory closures, which brought high unemployment and few economic prospects. I left the town to pursue my dreams and enrolled in a university. My education opened the door to the world, where I graduated with a Ph.D. in environmental and natural resource economics from Texas A&M University. With my degree, I traveled and lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Morocco, Malaysia, and the United States. Currently, I teach economics and finance at a small university in Morocco. Despite my humble beginnings as a poor boy from Michigan, I am doing alright. I am living life to the fullest.

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      Baboons and Bureaucrats - Kenneth Szulczyk

      Baboons and Bureaucrats

      Kenneth Szulczyk

      All characters, places, and situations that appear in this work are purely fictitious, created in the writer’s mind. Although the places in the novel do exist, any resemblance to real people – living or dead – are entirely coincidental.

      Baboons and Bureaucrats

      Copyright © 2014 by Kenneth Szulczyk

      All rights reserved

      Cover design by Kenneth Szulczyk

      Smashwords Edition 1.0, August 2014

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      My friends and I head to the local coffee shop, walking down the sidewalk with the spring sun shining above us while a cool breeze pushes against us.

      My friends approach a patio table with an umbrella in front of the coffee shop. They reshuffle and push the chairs around the table. Then they begin sitting down.

      I’ll grab the coffees, I call to the group.

      Jeff answers, And add extra sugar and cream to mine.

      I open the door that

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