Find Permit A-38 in "The Place That Sends You Mad": A mind-numbing multi-storey building founded on bureaucracy and staffed by clinically unhelpful people who direct all their clients to other similarly unhelpful people elsewhere in the building. Asterix eventually beats them at their own game by asking for an imaginary permit that nobody knows about, sending the place into disarray. Eventually Asterix is given Permit A-38 just to make him leave and stop causing trouble.
(Number 8 of the Twelve Tasks of Asterix)
The research council awarded me a studentship in late August. Since then it has been passed between departments at the University. Today they discovered another form for me to urgently fill before anything can be done. I completed it. I have been informed that once one other person has signed off on the second page of another form (the second page got lost in admin space), it can then be processed in time for the payroll deadline of Thursday. This means there is a slight chance I may yet receive some money before January.
Which will be nice.
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UPDATE: There appears to be another lost section of form that two other people need to sign before anything can be done... Ah well, maybe by Easter then.
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