Henrik in Seattle

Bureaucracy

August 31st, 2005

I just love bureaucracy. As a part of my application to UW I sent a couple of letters of recommendation. Letters of recommendation can be nice to have e.g. when looking for a job, so I handed the originals to the International Office at Chalmers so they could make copies of them to send together with the application to UW. That way I would still have the originals, I thought. Today, I asked the International Office if I could get my letters back. They told me that they had sent to originals to UW and kept the copies themselves. *sigh*

So, I sent a letter to UW to ask if there was any possibility that I could get my original letters back. Person #1 answered "I only got copies, but I'll forward your mail to the person #2 who received the application". Person #2 answered "I sent the whole application including any original documents to person #1, so if she does not have your original letters, I never received any from the International Office at Chalmers". *sigh again*

It seems that the originals have somehow disappeared and all that is left is a whole bunch of copies.

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