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From: dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: re bureaucracy
Message-ID: <401@zaphod.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 11:29:05 EST
Article-I.D.: zaphod.401
Posted: Mon Feb 10 11:29:05 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 07:28:27 EST
References: <1639@hound.UUCP>
Reply-To: dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz)
Organization: Develcon Electronics, Saskatoon, SK
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Summary: 

In article <1639@hound.UUCP> ganns@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) writes:
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>       Personnel files with attached items for update were circulated
>       among the half-dozen people in the group responsible for
>       the updates. Each person in turn filled out those items
>       which struck his/her fancy at the moment, then passed it on
>       to the next person in the group. At the end of the process,
>       no one outside the group could tell who had done what on any
>       given record, and the group members had conveniently short
>       memories.
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>       .

This sounds incredibly like the practice with firing squads of issuing
some live and some dummy rounds so that no-one could tell who the
executioner REALLY was.  ;->

D.K.