A HARD WORKING ANT
and I
would like to share it…..
Everyday a small ant arrives at work very
early and starts work immediately. She produces
a lot and she was happy. The chief, a lion,
was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision. He thought that if the ant can produce so
much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a
supervisor!
So he recruited a cockroach who had extensive
experience as supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. The cockroach’s first decision was to set up
a clocking in attendance system. He also
needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and he recruited a spider,
who managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.
The lion was delighted with the cockroach’s
reports and ask him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyze
trends, so that he could use them for presentations at Board meetings. So cockroach had to buy a new computer and a
laser printer and recruited a fly to manage the IT department.
The ant, who had once been so
productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which
used up most of her time…! The lion came
to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the
department where the ant worked. The position
was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and ergonomic
chair for his office.
The new person in charge, the
cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant, who he brought from
his previous department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control
Strategic Optimization Plan…
The department where the ant works
is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset… It was at that time that the cicada convinced
the boss, the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the
environment. Having reviewed the charges
for running the ant’s department, the lion found out that the production was
much less than before. So he recruited the owl,
a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest
solutions.
The owl spent three months in the
department and came up with an enormous report, in several volumes, that
concluded: “The department is overstaffed”
Guess who the lion fires first? The ant, of course, because “she showed lack
of motivation and had a negative attitude”
Well,
what do you think? Does it sound like
somewhere, someplace we know?
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