Same here in Environmental. Between the EPA, Florida DEP and TNI (The NELAC Institute) and their mandatory and non-funded mandatory regs, my workplace (Local Gov't, and I start year 21 there tomorrow) has become the definitive poster child for C.Y.A.
Quick story: When Jeb Bush was Governor he threatened to eliminate a healthy portion of middle management Health Dept jobs - you know the ones; people who sit at a desk and push work and paper to other people who push work and paper to other who push work and paper to other ...
Those people (who hadn't been 'on the bench' in 20 years) decided that we needed another organization to do the same thing the EPA and the DOH (Dept of Health) were already doing, but supposedly working independently (Ethics gain).
Except they weren't - they were still part of the DOH. Kinda like incest but worse - the taxpayers were footing the bill. They kept their state pensions and got a big pay increase.
My annual audit checklist went from 1 page to 25 and they can't get it done every year - maybe every 28 months.
I'd want their job, but I couldn't stand being completely disrespected by the people I (supposedly) represent.
Sorry - maybe that wasn't exactly "quick".