Here, to lower the tone, is a little something that Philip Larkin wrote on the, er, challenges of personnel management...
Administration
Day by day your estimation clocks up
Who deserves a smile and who a frown,
And girls you have to tell to pull their socks up
Are those whose pants you'd most like to pull down.
It seems Larkin wrote these lines after discovering one his prettier library assistants canoodling in the stacks with her boyfriend.
It's a piece that could have found its way into either or both of the little anthologies I bought the other day, being both short (and actually rather sweet) and funny.
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