Quote Originally Posted by hazz View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
After sorting out all the bullshit, I found out what was going on. I was the first farang to be granted this Yellow Book from my Amphur and the Paa Laat was scared shitless that she would not have done the paperwork correctly.
On the whole civil servants are utterly spineless and scared shitless of making a mistake that they could be held accountable for later. This goes all the way to the top. Its understandable when you realise that the administrative laws that cover civil servants have utterly draconian punishments, if you are very luckily you loose your job and pension; if you are unluckily you get to spend years in jail.

This is why every office behaves so differently. Nobody in bangkok is prepared to interpret the law into a work process that the officers should follow. They push that responsibility down to the people who run each office and force them to take on the responsibility of making a mistake; each office comes up with a different interpretation and work flow. or just tries to avoid the whole problem by saying cannot be done
That's one of the most articulate explainations I've read hazz...