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I successfully bureaucracied someone today.
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To bureaucracy, verb: To identify a coworker attempting to do productive work and directly impede them by escalating the issue and making it a much bigger deal than they originally expected.
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Example: "Imelda started working on a cool feature, but I wanted to quickly clarify something with legal. Now I've bureaucracied her with 5 hours of meetings and an additional 3 approvals blocking her launch."