A compendium of insane British Bureaucracy
Everyone has a call-centre story or some nightmare encounter at the hands of 'customer services' to relate. The Little Black Book of Red Tape is a kind of compendium of such stories, a sort of almanac of the bullshit of the modern world, and a catalogue of individual heroic battles against the corporate state.
It features the Derby householder who is selling off minute plots of his back garden to well wishers around the world for £1 each to prevent the council putting a bypass through it; the Shropshire bus service that doesn't stop as 'stopping disrupts the timetable'; and the hospital recently fined £2.5 million for using 'spare capacity' to treat patients quickly.
- ISBN10 1409106195
- ISBN13 9781409106197
- Publish Date 18 September 2008 (first published 8 November 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Seven Dials
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 192
- Language English