Did you get the memo about the TPS reports?

Just a regular day at the office, no?

The documents... date from the early 1990s to the present. They depict an organization obsessed with paperwork and penny-pinching and afflicted with a damaging propensity for feuds.

Sounds like your standard office - what with your TPS reports, 8 bosses and inevitable cases of the Monday's.

That is actually a description of Al-Qaeda according to a L.A. Times article today. Based on captured documents we get an impression of the international terrorist outfit as just another office with too much paperwork, nasty memos from bosses and other highly bureaucratic tendencies.

The actually have lengthy excerpts of a memo from Mohammed Atef to a suborbinate,

In two pages mixing flowery religious terms with itemized complaints, the Egyptian boss accused the militant of misappropriating cash, a car, sick leave, research papers and an air conditioner during "an austerity situation" for the network. He demanded a detailed letter of explanation.

It's a fascinating read and just might make you feel better about your office.