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Bureaucrats Without Borders

Or as they say in France, “Fonctionnaires Sans Frontières”

David Martin
MuddyUm
Published in
3 min readNov 5, 2021

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Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

After almost 30 years of employment in the Canadian federal government, I was looking forward to taking early retirement. But I had to admit that I was a bit uneasy about what I would do when I finally finished working. I didn’t want to be one of those early retirees who, three weeks into retirement, finds himself bored and at loose ends.

It turns out that I didn’t have to worry. After discovering Fonctionnaires Sans Frontières, I knew immediately what I was going to do with my post-employment life.

Fonctionnaires Sans Frontières or Bureaucrats Without Borders is an international organization dedicated to bringing bureaucracy to those without. Originating in the motherland of bureaucracy, France, FSF — or BWB — has hundreds of former bureaucrats who volunteer their services to bring the joys of large-scale organizations to under-governed people throughout the world.

Did you know that some national governments have only the barest framework of a bureaucratic structure? Hard as it is to believe, some states apparently survive without such basics as forms in triplicate, minimum fee schedules or even a basic organization chart.

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