the Daily Whale - 10 October 1993

Learn Bureaucratese!

Lesson 2: Choose your demeanor. If you are underpaid and poorly supervised, you can be a Bored, Surly Bureaucrat. You will rudely take out your frustrations on the helpless. Otherwise, you should be a Polite, Efficient Bureaucrat. You will smile as you take out your frustrations on the helpless.