I'm sure there is an equivalent of sending someone to supply or the
flight line for jet wash.  Also getting the new guy to sort the
classified from unclassified chad (the little punch outs from punch
cards or tape).
Dave
Your 'reality', sir, is lies and balderdash,
and I'm delighted to say that I have no
grasp of it whatsoever.
                      - Baron Munchausen

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Timothy Collinson
<xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2016 12:56 am, "Freelance Traveller"
> <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure many people have read stories where a character is newly in a
>> military or paramilitary service, and as part of the service "culture",
>> is sent on bogus errands, such as a search for "fifty meters of flight
>> line" or "last month's cannon report" or "a bucket of prop wash". (Such
>> bogus errands are sometimes generically called "snipe hunts".)
>>
>> What sort of snipe hunts would exist in the various interstellar
>> services in the Third Imperium?
>>
>
> And riffing on the long weight/wait (which I'm  sure I was sent for when I
> worked as a student in a factory many years ago) or a sky hook, how about a
> Jump Week or a void crane?
>
> Or maybe hazees are given a large denomination note and told to go to
> Finance for some Vilani change.
>
> Oh heck.... It's 3.30am here and you realize I'm *never* going to get back
> to sleep?  I should never have checked my email!
>
> tc
>
> -----
> The Traveller Mailing List
> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml
> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com
> To unsubscribe from this list please goto
> http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=NZ2T1cCxApw0Kw5BG0ZuG6l28bIcPqVY