The stable rule of a good HAS or HCO Cope Officer is NEVER UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION.

The Basic Staff Hat is OEC Volume No. 0. Every staff member needs one of these.

It takes a lot of executive time and effort to build up a Section or Dept or Division.

When every staff member of one org bought one, the stats promptly went up through the roof.

For someone to then come along and scramble it up with transfers is a criminal action.

It tells how an org operates and gives the basic information necessary to a staff member to operate properly as one.

If a unit, section, Dept or Division is operating well, don’t unmock it.

The whole set should be owned by execs. And the divisional book as well as Vol 0 by members of any one division.

Strengthen it. Hat it better. Put apprentices in it opposite to its posts to learn. Give it help.

An heroic job of compilation and publishing was done by the staff involved. It took years of work. And they did a beautiful job of making these big books.

But DON’T SCRAMBLE IT.

They contain all the policy ever issued sorted by divisions, fully indexed.

The work of years can be destroyed overnight by “urgent” “vital” personnel action.

Just the Basic Staff Hat in every staff member’s hands and available for reference made the first org boom.

Such crazy actions are only done by people too lazy to recruit and train new people or by unreal financial planning or a failure to get it to produce.

So what will the whole set do?

THE MAIN REASON WE HAVE EVER HAD SLUMPS HAS BEEN UNMOCKING ORGS OR UNITS.

Firing people, too heavy ethics, putting off people as “PTS” when all you needed was to pull their withholds, a thousand reasons can be given for unmocking an org or its parts.

They are all cover-ups for execs who won’t keep the place busy and for HCO failures to recruit, train and hat.

To do so is a sign of insanity.

People like their jobs.

DON’T UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION.

[See also HCO PL 13 July 1974, Issue II, Org Series 34, Working Installations, on page 357.]