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> Don't they take the amount of time they need in order to ensure safety

I think the perception is that they spend all their time calling the meeting to order, identifying participants, itemizing the agenda, breaking for lunch, slowly reading a checklist of procedures, reconvening after a formal proposal for investigation takes place, etc. etc., eventually followed by about 48 hours of actual review activities. The typical bureaucratic process.



Then the perception is wrong, but only because it's not even close to the reality. Regulatory work is not your typical bureaucratic process.

Endless review cycles, approvals, re-approvals, wordsmithing, legal, compliance, risk, re-re-re approvals. It really does take a lot of time.


It sounds like you're arguing that the regulatory work is indeed very bureaucratic?


Define bureaucratic.

If by bureaucratic you mean the same typical tropes about lazy government employees sucking off the taxpayers tit that's probably not what the person you're referring to meant.

If by bureaucratic you mean laborious and involving a lot of people thoroughly dotting i's and crossing t's then yeah, that's probably what the person you're replying to meant.


The thoroughness and attention to the i's and t's was indeed what I meant :)

Along with some measure of frustration, even though most of it is actually necessary.




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