the rowers
I think I’ve heard this one before, but me ma told it to me again last week.
It is so true that it makes you think and re-think eh?
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Every year Malaysia and Japan would have a boat rowing competition. For years the Japanese team always beat the Malaysia team by a few hundred metres. Naturally the Malaysian government was not very pleased about this. During one of their meetings they decided to try fix the problem. However they could not come up with any solution, hence they hired a consultation firm to help them.
Off the consultants went to work. After some research they found out that every rowing team had 8 people. The Japanese team had 1 captain and 7 rowers, whereas the Malaysian team had 7 captains and 1 rower. They passed this finding to the government.
Of course nobody was happy; we can’t go on losing every time, we must reconstruct the team. They asked the consultants to come out with a solution, which they did after some time. A new structure must be implemented, they said, there cannot be 7 captains and 1 rower. Instead there should be 1 manager, 2 assistant managers, 4 captains and 1 rower. And so it was done.
The following year the Malaysian team lost to the Japanese team by 1 kilometre. Naturally the Malaysian government was very angry. They told the consultants that it was their idea in the first place and now they have to fix the problem.
When the consultants return with their new findings, they told the government that it was not their structure’s fault but the fault of the rower for not working hard enough.
They sacked the rower.
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LOL
suan, you’re in trouble now…..you just read and publish malaysia’s top goverment secret….
hor hor suanie….later get arrested how? :p
i will campaign for you if you ever turn to politics..
if im sober enuff :p
When will they learn? *Sigh*
Excuss me, fuck me hard, can someone tell me the moral of the story? I’m lost
DAve, that’s the problem, this story does not have any moral value,
They’ll soon put blame on the construction of the boat next… in due time ^_^
Well, at least they didn’t do what Australia did in the Olympics … one of our women rowing team decided to take a nap during the final! Lost us a medal!
Anyway , the Malaysian rowers sound like an Australian company. I worked for one company where I had 16 managers over me. Three of them directly … 3 managers, one worker … I always wondered what they actually did all day, well, actually, I don’t I asked one of them … they spent all day on the phone talking to thier friends. Now that e-mail is around, they probably spend all day writing and sending e-mails to their friends.
you are bailing me out what :p
which is like never?
which is like, never.
or blog
the moral of the story is, god will provide. beer.
Nah! I know these managers. They don’t have the intelligence to blog. They only hold the opinion of the manager directly above them … and refrain from making decisions, or doing work, or well, doing anything which remotely requires effort.
I doubt they’d understand blogging anyway.