Mailbag Entry of the Week.

In response to Brian Friel's excellent Management Matters column on sloganeering in the workplace, an Army contractor, tells of quickly deleting a higher-up's e-mail detailing a new employee suggestion program, an action which landed him in the doghouse with a civilian manager. "The exchange," the contract employee writes, "ended surrealistically with him demanding that I recite the e-mail's content and me telling him to fuggedaboudit. It reminded me of that '70s Stealers Wheel one-shot pop hit: "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right! Here I am, stuck in the middle with you!"