What made you smile recently?
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Yep - I'm old enough to remember the song.
Don't understand it...I don't know why, but that just cracks me up more than it should.
It's a mish-mash of several popular sci-fi movies, all mixed together into one confusing narrative. That one contains references to Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Guardians of the Galaxy, just for good measure.
Dedicated fan(atic)s of sci-fi are known for being a bit intolerant of casual viewers getting different sci-fi franchises confused, the classic being mixing up Star Trek and Star Wars, as well as confusing Marvel comic characters with DC comic characters. This pokes fun at that.
Reminds me of the boat race joke. Well it would be a joke if it didn't cut so close to the truth!
A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat.
A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.
So American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.
To prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the ' Rowing Team Quality First Program' , with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and cancelled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's racing team was outsourced to India.
Tell me about it.
Where I work there has been an explosion of managers, executives, deputies and assistants.
For instance, there was one position which never existed before that, allegedly, required a manager. That manager now has four to five deputies, assistants, whatever, below them.
We're all scratching our heads as we can't understand how we managed to run the place before. How can a job that didn't exist and wasn't needed as the place ran perfectly well without it suddenly need a staff of four to six people.
And to make matters worse our management have bi weekly meetings and on each occasion this manager and their staff have reported, "nothing to report".
Well if you have nothing to report, what the frick are you doing?
Oh. Still don't find it funny bit that's probably just me. I'm the kid who went to the circus with Mum and Dad and didn't smile when the clowns came on. I don't really remember but I'm told I just sat there looking puzzled.
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