I brought cookies into work today with no intention of eating any myself

Reminds me of:

The sophist takes a simple concept and makes it complicated.

The wise takes a complicated concept and makes it simple.

Most bureaucrats

So true! Some people are just drama architects building chaos out of thin air.

Beware of people who create problems where none exist for you and then offer you a solution for the problem they created.

The first application of this was in Egypt and led to the downfall of the Old Egyptian Empire.