On Of Those Special Moments of Bureaucracy...

 

So there was this moment of mayhem in a local health establishment.  Not one, but three different people reported the situation to Child Protective Services.  This is how it came out:  

The first person who made a report learned about the other reports at the same time he was instructed to call not one, but 2 different people at Protective Services to provide more information.  One of the people he was told to call said she'd been signed to investigate the situation.  More emails were flying about it the next day, and he learned about yet another report filed when the child in question reported more mayhem at home.  

That second day -- less than 24 hours from the time he filed the report -- that same guy who filed the first report got a letter from Protective Services saying that his report was screened out because it didn't meet criteria to warrant an investigation.  Huh?  

And one of the emails he'd received an hour before that said the investigator was filing to have the child removed from home.  Double huh?

This is our government at work.