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[[File:Buttocratic.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Now ''why'' on God’s green earth anyone would want to sit on an egg, we can only speculate. But if you do, the EggSitter{{tm}} has yo’ arse ''covered''.]]
}}The ancient, sacred, creed by which all persons charged with the grave responsibility of [[middle management]] live: ''[[primum nil errare]]'':
 
“First, do no harm ''to your own career''”.
 
Eymology corner: often widely misspelled ''buttocratic'' — product of a confusion with the medico’s ''Hippocratic Oath'' — named for the Greek doctor, Hippocrates — buttocractic, with a “c”, in fact comes from buttocraxis (''βυτοκρακτική'', sympolised by the Greek lowercase omega ω) the ancient theological disposition of ''being elsewhere when blame is attributed''.
 
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*[[Control function]]
*[[Plausible deniability]]
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