rivets, rivets, rivets

Have you ever grown tired of bureaucracy?

Here's a good passage to relate to from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

What more did I want? What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work -- to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast -- cases -- piled up -- burst -- split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station-yard on the hillside. Rivets

and later on after several additional references to the non-delivery of rivets.

I had given up worrying myself about the rivets. One's capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose. I said Hang! -- and let things slide.