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Once upon a time the government had a scrap yard in the middle
of a desert. Congress said," Someone may steal it at night."
So they created a night watchman position and hired a person
at $18,000.00 a year for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job
without instruction?" So they created a planning department
and hired two people -- one person to write the instructions
for $22,000.00 and one person to do time studies
for an additional $22,000.00 per year.
Then congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is
doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a
quality control department and hired two people.
One was to do the studies for $31,000.00
and one to write the reports for an additional $31,000.00 per year.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"
So they created the following positions:
a time keeper for a $35,000.00 annual salary
and a payroll officer for an additional $35,000.00
Then they created an administrative section and hired
three more people -- an Administrative Officer at $155,000.00
per year, an Assistant Administrative Officer at $125,000.00
and a Legal Secretary at $100,000.00 per year.
Then Congress said, "We have had this operating for one year
with a budget cost of $574,000.00
and we are $18,000.00 over budget.
We must cut back costs."
SO THEY LAID OFF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN.
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