Date:  Fri, 5 May 1995 13:00:01 EDT

From:  David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>

Subject: govt work



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  Date: 05-May-1995 12:57pm EST



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  From: David Bergdahl               Dept: English

     BERGDAHL                 Tel No: (614) 593-2783



Subject: govt work





A comment from someone who actually knows from govt work:



"Since I worked for the Govt. for many years, I was subjected to the statement,

"Close enough for Government workers." It is a denigrating expression that

essentially says that Government workers really don't care, since they have such

job security; ergo, a measurement can be taken with little attention to its

accuracy, etc."

He continues, "As you can see from my previous message, I don't agree with this

expression at all. When I worked for Martin-Marietta, private projects were

referred to as simply "Home Projects." However, amongst the shop people (who

usually did the Home Projects for others), it was well understood that Home

Projects took precedence over the real work."



This message is relayed/retyped by his sister, a graduate student in our dept.



                    David

David Bergdahl Ohio Univ/Athens    BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU







Received: 05-May-1995 12:59pm