job interview, n.:
The excruciating process during which personnel officers
separate the wheat from the chaff -- then hire the chaff.

Bureaucrat, n.:
A person who cuts red tape sideways.
-- J. McCabe

Research, n.:
Consider Columbus:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he got back he didn't know where he had been.
And he did it all on someone else's money.