Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-03 | Page 9 | Teaching Government Clerks to Loaf

Teaching Government Clerks to Loaf. it Then there Is another difficulty to be jt kept In mind, a natural rtsultnnt of th f Incumbra Hi - aforeMtid. A dopnrlmen-tal dopnrlmen-tal machine runs at a certain rate of H speed. Business Is ground out slowly. It has ever been so. perhaps. And H speed In any one part Is not deslrate I It throws the entire machine out of ) S'-;ir For Illustration Not (.ri long ago a Chicago business woman, accustomed to hard, efficient work, was appointed to the Govern- in'nt service In Washington She be- ; g-io hr fork with enthusiasm, and with the determination of securing a prnmotion through good service. Al- faaW - though her salary was $75 a month, she BRf was assigned to a tatk which could be- n done miic- ssfully b a fourteen-year- f old schoolboy. nanUly, putting Jackets I on report! of some kind, labeling them ' properly, and thtSI preparing the docu- no 1 ts f..i . 1 1 11 1 1 1 :i t ion by a higher of- fb lal Sh- was n w to the Government H ervioo, wat this business woman, ami he prepared ten times as many of these Jacket! :is her predecessors hod I done. Soon she was called before her II 1 h rlor, and Itlgtekd Of the compliment she naturally expected, the bun-aucrat OOlded her roundly The clerks fur-ther fur-ther up th.- Hi erere buidened with business which they could not or would H not do. As a result, the bureaucrat H specified 1 ' particular number of the reports (o be prepared In a day. and H no H But 1 can do those in about two H hours." said the Chicago woman H "What shall I do the rest of the day' " H "Stretch out the work as long as you cn. free the bureaucratic command. H "and then read the papers." The H World Today. H