Ad Hoc(ery) Fall Afoul

A Tale of Pseudo-Officialese in Three Parts

PART 1. KRA Pa - DD/FLEA

[I am totally submissive when it comes to internal admin
totally resigned to turning the mind into cheese curd]

Let’s meet to discuss the fourth
KRA on our Pas, use of ‘ad hoc’
banned, alternatives ‘additional
or special tasks’ no-no’s also

Move banned ad hoc KRA or choose
new KRA ‘Acting but not acting, Fooling
around, Socialising and losing bets’
since use of the terms

‘Ad hoc, special, additional and tasks’ are
outlawed - we should email our proposal
to DD/FLEA (cc D/TE) then awaaaiiiiiit
their approval

Let’s decide on KRA 4 and adapt our
PDPs accordingly - oh joy, use of
acronyms are becoming even
more wonderful…

[Sorry, I don’t know what these acronyms
stand for, though I shall find out eventually]

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PART 2. Thank you to my Foreign Correspondent
for supplying the meaning of all these acronyms,
it is fantastic, I am sure Terry Pratchett could not
have said it any better...

Foreign Correspondent:

‘Ad hoc’ (ery) is typical public servant speak meaning
whatever springs to mind on the spur of the moment
without being subliminally connected permanently to
or definitional of anything said, alluded to or intended
to express one’s words as an opinion

Without undue concern or need for complimentary group
consensus that said opinion will be taken as indicatively
gospel or potentially suppressed as the result of tacit
pseudo-officialese cautions exercised covertly or
retributively or expectations of a

Well-founded fear it will fall afoul of future hierarchical
displeasure regardless anyway...

DD/FLEA could mean Deputy Director Foreign Littorals
and Extra-terrestrial Administration

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PART 3. Thank you Note

I am enthralled by your brilliant definitions, the
description of DD/FLEA has me flummoxed,
enchanted and totally overcome – delighted!
Extra-terrestrial Administration
YES, I LOVE it!

Now I have a terrible headache and nausea
realizing that today’s beauty is to be spoilt
with discussion of all these aspects of our
KRA’s and PA’s and DDTEE being absent
without official authorization and us carrying
the torch of civilization in the dark night of
superhuman administration – it is too much,
I have to lie down, my nerves are shot, my
heart broken by so many wonderful things…