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 analyse the situation:
a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the accountingĀ 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 inĀ engineering.
d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them inĀ planning.
e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them inĀ operations.
f. If they are sleeping, put them in security.
g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in informationĀ technology.
h. If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.
i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are lookingĀ 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 marketing.
k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategicĀ planning.
l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has beenĀ moved, congratulate them and put them in top management.
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