For anyone getting walking voluntarily into a bureaucratic labyrinth like this, I highly encourage documenting the whole sequence so you don't get lost in the

For anyone getting walking voluntarily into a bureaucratic labyrinth like this, I highly encourage documenting the whole sequence so you don't get lost in the middle of it. With something distasteful like this value-destroying sequence of waits and applications and meetings, it's reasonable to try to hold it at arm's length and minimize the time you voluntarily commit, but these things will eat you alive if you let them go that way.