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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cheating (Is it clearly bureaucracy?)
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Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 15:09:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 22 15:09:27 1987
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Reply-To: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick)
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Keywords: Juicy target, Barry sets it up for me, KABLOOM!!!

>Oh come on. Is it illegal? Or is the AT&T bureaucracy just brain-dead?
>
>Mind you, this is the same bureaucracy which takes two weeks to come
>and fix my 3B5 because the first week is spent denying I have a
>service contract and the second week is spent losing the original
>service request.
>
>I don't think AT&T's bureaucracy can be used as an example of anything.

How about using it as an example of bureaucracy in action?

On the other hand, maybe not. After all they fixed your thing after
only 2 weeks.


Most respectfully,

      -Tom
       tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu
       (Intelligent responses welcome. Flames to /dev/null.
        They only make me angrier and aggravate my ulcer.)