Red Tape

On placement with a government department, not a hospital.
I have never seen so much red tape in an organisation before. These people will hold meetings and achieve nothing, they discuss their policies and procedures more than they practise and the whole environment is inefficient. It was hard to swallow how many resources this organisation squandered.
I finished my placement and I am glad i experienced it, I learnt the effects that red tape had through all levels of staff, It breeds inefficiency. I know better understand that a workplace needs to have the right balance between policy and procedures and freedom for individual thought and decision making.
Has anyone else found a placement to be a poorly run organisation?