Tips for dealing with the French bureaucracy?

Question

Does anyone have any tips for dealing with the French bureaucracy? I'm trying to keep my cool but it's only a matter of time before I really go off on someone in English; if things continue the way they are going.

Answer 1

Cabal is wright : we hate our bureaucracy because they are incompetent and loafer. So the best way is to keep cool and try until you will have somebody more efficient.

Good luck!!!

Answer 2

Patience, politeness, try to put them on your side by exposing your problem ("you see, you're absolutely right but... do you think there's a way...) NEVER say it is their fault/their problem.

And think that the French do grit their teeth too. We HATE our bureaucracy.

Polite, polite, polite...