Sunday, June 22, 2008

How to Properly Place New Employees

I came across this joke the other day. I thought it had some truth to it.

A suggestion from a Human Resources Manager:

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.

5 comments:

Jill said...

I loved that Chris!

ty and megs said...

hi guys! i just found your blog! it's so fun to be able to keep in touch this way!

i'm looking forward to reading more! :)

love,
cousin meghan

ali said...

that's a good one!

Jonathan said...

classic Chris.

Adam and Bri said...

That was hilarious!

And I second Megs. I'm looking forward to keeping in touch!