The biggest problem with a job is that no one tells you what to do.
Gilbert Laws's adage. The illusion-of-communication line often given under this name is Whyte's, listed separately — a persistent confusion between two unrelated Gilberts.
In practice
- A graduate three weeks in has been told the mission, the values and the org chart, and not what to do before Thursday.
- A volunteer arrives for a shift with an induction pack and no idea which task is theirs, and leaves having done nothing.
- Standing
- The illusion-of-communication line often given here is Whyte's, listed separately.
- Subject
- Organizations & Bureaucracy
- Essay
- The folklore of office life