Middle aged, lower middle echelon civil servants who only aim to knock off at half pass five and make problems for you simply because they don't want to do extra work and are willing to procrastinate until the last minute and then get you to submit a proposal to resolve the issue by an unreasonable dateline before attempting to reject it to cover their backsides until you threaten to take the matter up to the department director...
It's times like these that you feel like resigning from your current job, applying to join the same government body as said civil servants and requesting to be sent to their department to be appointed their supervisor.