Sort of looks like they added a bunch more layers to the

[cornermouse]

bureaucracy that they said would be smaller and more efficient. At least, that's just the way it looks to me. :eyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050923/ts_chicagotrib/offerofbusesfellbetweenthecracks

Peter Pantuso of the American Bus Association said he spent much of the day on Wednesday, Aug. 31, trying to find someone at the
Federal Emergency Management Agency who could tell him how many buses were needed for an evacuation, where they should be sent and who was overseeing the effort.

"We never talked directly to FEMA or got a call back from them," Pantuso said.

Pantuso, whose members include some of the nation's largest motor coach companies, including Greyhound and Coach USA, eventually learned that the job of extracting tens of thousands of residents from flooded New Orleans wasn't being handled by FEMA at all.

Instead the agency had farmed the work out to a trucking logistics firm, Landstar Express America, which in turn hired a limousine company, which in turn engaged a travel management company.

The story gets more insane from there.

[MisterP]

1. but it's corporate bureaucracy, which is a good thing

hail privatization!