Friday, June 12, 2009

QOTD

"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
Charles Peters

2 comments:

Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs said...

True. Just like middle managers who like to have their team in the office so they feel important.

This is one of the biggest hurdles in the move for home/home-office working.

Sackerson said...

It's also a way of preventing misrepresentation of what you said to the other party; of unfair shifting of blame; and of nailing someone down to the undertakings they gave you.