Carousel Tides: Tweets for the Tweetless, Day Four

Welcome to the penultimate day of the Carousel Tides Grand Snippet Adventure, sponsored by Baen Books. Snippets beginning in 3…2…1…

“Hair of the dog,” he said, pressing the flask into my hand. “Drink up, matey; this draught’ll make a man of ye!”

“It was an Ozali who came. Who, I cannot say. He had woven a glamour about himself, but he could not mask the odor of High Magic.”

Googin Rock lay before me, flames flickering hungrily beneath the black, bladed surface.

“That’s nice,” Borgan murmured. “Yes,” I managed to say calmly, “it is. But it’s only glamor.”

My right foot went into the cup of Borgan’s hands, there was a moment of lift, and I was airborne, the land wailing inside my head.

The willie, possibly believing it was about to witness a new and exciting form of suicide, spun closer.

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AKiCiF: Job descriptions

I know we have a couple of HR-types reading here. I'm coming away from one of the most surreal conversations I have ever had with an HR person and I need a...triple-check, it would be, on current usage.

Suppose one has a Job Description. It goes like this:

Job Title: Secretary, Ministry of Silly Walks

Function: To provide secretarial support to the chairman of the Ministry of Silly Walks

Duties:
1. Sort the mail
2. Answer public inquiries regarding the nature and history of MoSW
3. Produce and distribute posters advertising MoSW functions
4. Walk silly
5. Monitor office supply levels and order as necessary
6. Other duties as assigned

My question lies with Number 6. I've only been working off and on in a clerical capacity since 1968, so my understanding may be flawed, but what I take Number 6 to mean is that if my boss, the Minister of MoSW, should decide that the Ministry needs, oh, a webpage and assigns me to build and maintain it, that's an "other duty" -- which is to say, a new task not anticipated when the core list of duties was compiled by whoever compiled the original job description.

Does Number 6, in current HR philosophy, also mean that the Prime Minister may append the Ministry of Funny Mustaches to the above job description as "other duties" stipulating that the MoFM is its own power, equal in the org chart to the MoSW?

Inquiring minds...