From: utzoo!watmath!kgdykes Newsgroups: ug.jokes Title: re: dmmartindale re: management types Article-I.D.: watmath.2959 Posted: Thu Jul 8 01:36:35 1982 Received: Thu Jul 8 03:57:18 1982 i was not refering to the DECISION ITSELF but rather his ability to make the decision i can swallow without undo complaint *ANY* decision, if TO ME, it seems to have been made by someone appropriate to making a decision on a particular situation even though my "joke" was based on one tiny "report", the concept of a clerk "jumping 3 levels of management, etc" and then getting what appeared to be an almost instant decision (like, no indication of the *4* lower levels being researched) is bit odd i can swallow the fact that an immediate supervisor may be useless to talk to (and the company might even find it difficult to exterminate him) but *3* consecutive levels strikes me as a bit hasty as far as "accidently" reading junk, why are they even "accidently" reading news at all?? unless they KNOW the meanings of newsgroup headers and proper knowlege of its use? maybe the company has to buy extra computing power all the time (to support secretaries performing obviously non work required duties)