Congress- Fairy Tale?

[FATboy05]

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "someone may steal from it at night.." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person 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, and one person to do time studies.
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 to do the studies and one to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost."

So they laid off the night watchman.

[MLC]

been there done that. i worked for a company back in the 80's and 90's that worked that way. in 1990 there were 30k folks worldwide in the company with only 6 VP's and the board decided they would downsize the company to increase profitability. in 1995 when they laid me off they were down to 3k people left in the company with 164 VP's. managment always seems to grow as profitability shinks.

[FATboy05]

...........will it ever change :roll:

[mrpiff]

Sounds just like the Department of Energy here in the US. :shock: