One of the biggest problems in industry is making sure everyone is doing the job they're best at. To solve this problem once and for all, the government set up a task force to conduct a comprehensive study of companies and come up with a way of matching job candidates against jobs. After months of research, the taskforce formulated an ingenious way of doing this.
What you do is: put a big pile of bricks in a room. Then put a few candidates in the room and observe them till 5pm and see what they get up to.
1. If they count the bricks, put them in the accounts department.
2. If they count the bricks, then recount them. Put them in auditing.
3. If they've separated out the chipped or broken bricks, put them in quality control.
4. If they've hidden all the chipped and broken ones and categorically deny their existence, put them in PR.
5. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
6. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order that defies logic, put them in planning.
7. If they have broken the bricks and come up with a reason no one can understand, put them in IT.
8. If they say they have tried everything, yet not a single brick has been moved. Put them in sales.
9. If they have already left for the day. Put them in marketing.
10. Finally, if they've had a long meeting but can't decide what to do with the bricks, give them a huge bonus and make them the board of directors.
Happy Friday! And thanks to Sunil Sharma for sending us that little ditty.
