Murphys Laws: Evelyn's Rules for Bureaucratic Survival to Faber's Laws
(Murphy's Laws collected: 1583)
Evelyn's Rules for Bureaucratic Survival : Always distrust offices not under your jurisdiction which say that they are there to serve you. "Support" offices in a bureaucracy tend to grow in size and make demands on you out of proportion to their service, and in the end require more effort on your part than their service is worth.
Evelyn's Rules for Bureaucratic Survival Corollary : Support organizations can always prove success by showing service to someone . . . not necessarily you.
Evelyn's Rules for Bureaucratic Survival : Incompetents often hire able assistants.
Everitt's Form of the Second Law of Thermodynamics : Confusion (entropy) is always increasing in society. Only if someone or something works extremely hard can this confusion be reduced to order in a limited region. Nevertheless, this effort will stil result in an increase in the total confusion of society at large.
Eve's Discovery : At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that fits is the one not on sale.
Adam's Corollary : It's easy to tell when you've got a bargain -- it doesn't fit.
Nonreciprocal Laws of Expectations : Negative expectations yield negative results.
Nonreciprocal Laws of Expectations : Positive expectations yield negative results.
First Law of Expert Advice : Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
Faber's Laws : If there isn't a law, there will be.
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