Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site seismo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!flinn
From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Followup to Civil Service Regulations
Message-ID: <482@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Dec-83 14:00:05 EST
Article-I.D.: seismo.482
Posted: Tue Dec 20 14:00:05 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Dec-83 01:26:49 EST
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
Lines: 39


The recent complaint about foreign language postings may have
referred to something I recently put on about the rules of 
public service offices.  Here it is in English, but I'm afraid
it loses a lot of the flavor.


		Regulations of the Chief


Article I.    The Chief is right.
Article II.   The Chief is always right.
Article III.  Even when a subordinate is right, Article I takes
		precedence.
Article IV.   The Chief does not *eat*; he nourishes himself.
Article V.    The Chief does not *drink*; he relishes.
Article VI.   The Chief does not *sleep*; he refreshes himself.
Article VII.  The Chief is never *late*; he is detained.
Article VIII. The Chief never *leaves* the office; he is called away.
Article IX.   The Chief does not *converse* with his secretary; he
		educates him/her.
Article X.    The Chief does not *read the newspaper* during office
		hours; he studies current events.
Article XI.   Subordinates enter the Chief's office with their own
		ideas, but leave with the Chief's ideas.
Article XII.  The Chief is always the Chief, even in his swimming
		trunks.
Article XIII. The more you criticize the Chief, the fewer perks 
		you get.
Article XIV.  The Chief has to think for everybody else.


			Conclusions

  (1)  The Chief is a dictator.  Chiefs should be prohibited
from intermarrying, in order to avoid increasing their numbers.

  (2)  If a subordinate has good ideas, they become the Chief's
ideas.