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“First, do no harm ''to your own career''”. | “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''), | 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''), notated by the Greek lower case [[omega]] ([[ω]]), which is of course the ancient theological disposition of ''being elsewhere when blame is attributed'', or “avoiding the [[apocalypse]]”. | ||
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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), notated by the Greek lower case omega (ω), which is of course the ancient theological disposition of being elsewhere when blame is attributed, or “avoiding the apocalypse”.