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Bureaucracy Beast

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Vanishes at deadlines but demands immediate responses to vague emails (read: your boss)

Bureaucracy Beast

Needs to sign off but disappears into the ether every sprint review. Appears just long enough to demand changes, then vanishes again. Uses “circling back” like it’s an incantation. No one has ever seen them and a calendar at the same time.

"We’re blocked—again—because the Bureaucracy Beast vanished after asking for changes."

Bureaucracy Beast
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