Comment by drooopy

This kind of bureaucracy and the mentality of public sector employees is more of a southern European phenomenon, not just Italian. I've spent most of my life living between Italy and Greece (being 50% both in heritage) and the past 7 years in Portugal, and it's all the same down here. It feels like the public sector is holding those states hostages in the 1970s. This is of course in stark contrast to the experience that I've had while I was living in the UK for a few years in the late 2010s.