How's bureocracy in your university?

I recently became a professor and, while I expected to spend some time on paperwork, the sheer amount surprised me. I'll describe a small token of it below, but there are multiple other examples.

I had a paper accepted at a great conference and it took multiple entire days of my time to be able to attend to it.

I have a grant from the university I can use for conferences (at least in theory). I've been trying to use it for over a month now with only partial success. I had to pay for part of the plane tickets myself. I won't get into much detail, but after filling out tons of forms, I still had to request the conference organizers an extension in the deadline (for another whole month!) because otherwise, I would have to also pay for the registration out of my pocket. After much going forward and backward and getting the help of other people, hopefully, the registration will be paid by the end of this week.

This just seems like a waste of everyone's time. If we take the hourly salary of everyone involved in making this payment and add up how much time we all had to dedicate to this particular payment, the whole process was likely already more expensive than the registration itself!

Sorry for the vent, but I've heard from some colleagues in other countries that they don't waste nearly as much time in bureaucracy and was curious to hear from more people.

Between this and teaching (which I had to take extra classes due to understaffing), there is little time left for research.