Bureaucracy.. I remember at my job we had a small computer program glitch, but an annoying one. Naturally the rules said we had to tell our supervisor, who would pass the info along. Months go by, nothing. When a coworker griped about it again, I sent an email to my supervisor, but accidentally sent it to 'all'. naturally I got ripped for doing so. (even though idiots in other areas would send out such 'memos of they will be on vacation, or out of office for the afternoon to all, endlessly. when I sent back emails saying thank you for letting me know such important news and how I loved spending time reading drivel... you know what happened) Long story short the computer glitch problem was taken care of immediately. Seemed my to all got to the person who could DO something. naturally this infuriated the supervisor, who forevermore treated me like some dust bunny under a desk.(actually the nasty attitude was caused by a expensive gizmo she wanted to buy for the department. I said the gizmo was junk and a scam to rip off idiots. She bought it anyway, and discovered it was a scam to rip off idiots. She never forgave me for proving she was an idiot.)