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| {{a|maxim|
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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]]'':
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| “First, do no harm ''to your own career''”.
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| 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), which is of course the ancient theological disposition of ''being elsewhere when blame is attributed''.
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| {{sa}}
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| *[[Control function]]
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| *[[Plausible deniability]]
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| *[[Agency problem]]
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Latest revision as of 13:36, 19 August 2024