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From: jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: re bureaucracy
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 14:50:20 EST
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> 
>    Another point of bureaucracy is to shield individuals from personal
>    accountability for incompetence, malfeasance, and indolence.
> 

And yet, at the same time, bureaucracies also usually disclaim any
INSTITUTIONAL responsibility or accountability for their screw-ups.
Thus, when you get scrod by any of the millions of bureaucracies that
run your life, it's usually hellatiously difficult to get ANYONE,
whether an individual or the bureaucracy, to acknowledge or accept any
blame, or even to try to fix the damage.  So, if so often seems, once
you get scrod, you STAY scrod.  And the institutions have NO motiviation
to clean up their acts either to prevent it from happening again.

     If the cons and pros (if any) of bureaucracies are to become an
on-going discussion, is there some other more specific newsgroup this
should be moved to?

                                         -- Jay Jaeckel
                                         ...{ucbvax,decwrl}!imagen!jay

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