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