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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: The four laws of bureaucracy
Message-ID: <4951@alice.uUCp>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 23:16:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 23:16:29 1986
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> You can add a few more laws...
>
>        5. Never do anything that might earn you respect and praise from  your
>           subordinates.  This action might cause your subordinates to believe
>          you're human and then they would goof off.

... and so on.  But what I really want to see is things like
Newton's laws of motion -- things that describe how bureaucracies
actually behave, not rules for how one should behave.