How to properly place new employees:

Pacific Lure

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1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.

2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.

3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.

4. Then analyze the situation:

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department.

b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.

c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.

d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.

e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.

f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.

g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.

h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.

i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.

j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Management.

k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.

l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.

m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.
 
Kind of like when they used to test children in the american west (boys only, unfortunately) to see what they would grow up as.

They would put a bible, a coin, and a apple on a table and let the child into the room. In a little while, the Fathher would come in and look at the child.

If he had the apple, he was going to be a farmer.

if he had the bible, he was going to be a preacher.

if he had the coin, he was going to be a banker, or be involved in some form of busines.

So a father put his son in the room with those three objects. In a little while he came back to observe the situation. after looking, he went to his wife with a grave look on his face.

"Well", she asked, "whats he doing"?

"He is eating the apple, clutching the coin, and sitting on the bible" he replied. "It means he's going to be a politican".

I coudnt resist. :p
 
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