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"Bruce is so afraid of hurting other people's feelings" she said "that if you gave him furniture-polish by mistake for salad-dresing, he'd eat it sooner than tell you."

In the course of three years he had learnt enough to be able to do nearly all the work of the man immediately above him, and to make the man immediately below him do almost all the work that he was supposed to do himself. This system is known as "efficient co-ordination" and carried to its logical conclusion implies that the head of the firm does no work at all, and that the junior office boy is ultimately responsible for everything. Roughly speaking, this sums up the position in any smooth-running organisation.