I have a passing interest in graffiti, those “pithy sayings that express a general truth.” The most interesting ones sound like philosophy for everyday living, and are usually inscribed on the rear panels of commercial vehicles. My favourites are “WATER HAS NO ENEMY”, and “AI TAYA NO BI SEI AI LEZI” (that I am tired doesn't mean that I am lazy).
I was sitting in a car one day, caught in a traffic hold up and trying to be stoical about it, when a vehicle came to a stop in the adjacent lane. It was one of those flatbeds used for transporting containers, and scrawled on its side were the words: “OGA NO SABI, SHA IM NA OGA”. (The boss knows nothing, but he is still the boss).
Was this boss who “doesn’t know anything” a particular individual, or did he represent the writer’s notion of bosses generally? If indeed he was a flesh and blood boss, had he never read what his underlings had written about him, or was reading one of the things he “don’t know”? Whichever way you look at it, that graffito contains more than a grain of truth. Some bosses don’t know very much, and their subordinates are aware of it.
I was sitting in a car one day, caught in a traffic hold up and trying to be stoical about it, when a vehicle came to a stop in the adjacent lane. It was one of those flatbeds used for transporting containers, and scrawled on its side were the words: “OGA NO SABI, SHA IM NA OGA”. (The boss knows nothing, but he is still the boss).
Was this boss who “doesn’t know anything” a particular individual, or did he represent the writer’s notion of bosses generally? If indeed he was a flesh and blood boss, had he never read what his underlings had written about him, or was reading one of the things he “don’t know”? Whichever way you look at it, that graffito contains more than a grain of truth. Some bosses don’t know very much, and their subordinates are aware of it.
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