[varsigma (OP)]

Hi I found this in an office manual

Office  mission statement

Yea though I wander through the Valley of Expectations
Yet will I bear no responsibility for the consequences of any of my own
For I am a Nob and a Staff member
So get used to it, suckers

[alancalverd]

Early in my induction to the Civil Service I was taught that the most important note you can make  on a file cover is "not for me".

But there is an old story of a file that was returned with a note "This was not intended for you. Please erase your initials and initial the erasure"

[varsigma (OP)]

While I was attending my hometown university I had a 3-week midyear vacation job with the Social Welfare Dept in town.

The locals called it the Social Warfare Depot. Anyways, there was a filing room. However, that did not mean a particular file was anywhere in this room. If it wasn't the only option was to spend time looking for it, on other people's desks because none of them would leave a note in the filing room.

There were three floors in a large office building you had to trawl through. Civil Service efficiency on a stick.
If you were lucky it only took an hour or two. Some workers would stash files in drawers, it was fun.