INVESTIGATION NEEDED
Latest bureaucrat story concerns an efficiency expert who stalked into the Office of Petroleum and Oil-Shale Reserves, and walked up to two clerks. He asked the first clerk, “What do you do here?” The clerk, fed up with red tape, buck passing, forms, office politics and, above all 5 , efficiency experts, answered: “I don’t do a thing!” The efficiency expert nodded, made a note, then asked the second clerk, “And you, what’s your job here?” The second , clerk, a fellow sufferer, said, “I don’t do a thing either.” s ■ The efficiency expert’s ears perked up. “Hmmm,” he said, “duplication!” / v . 'V]
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 77, 16 December 1949, Page 7
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103INVESTIGATION NEEDED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 77, 16 December 1949, Page 7
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