Sunday, October 2, 2005

I found this on a message board

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And last but not least, the corporate steadfast:

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

LMHO!!!

Oh how true! This is too funny.

-Raven

Anonymous said...

PRICELESS!!  

Anonymous said...

Sounds like this is the program being followed by the current administration! (I have to admit, it is the way parts of the Fed Govt have been run for years, regardless of which Party was in office) rich