It seems that so many people in the blogging community are hurting and carrying a heavy load. When I think of them and when I think of Ella, I find myself in tears. I'm glad that almost every day in my inbox there is a post from Pastor Tim. His posts always bring a smile.
I thought I would include this entry today from him. Those of us who work in or worked in the education field can surely identify with this, although it applies to many others as he states here. It's funny, and yet sad but true. We at our school would often shake our heads at some of the decisions that were passed down to us.
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse. Better yet, bring in an army of consultants to over study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course:
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
11 comments:
Oh, that is just too perfect! Thanks for sharing it. It fits so many organizations, doesn't it?
I'm emailing this one immediately to a friend. You will hear the hootin' all the way from South Dakota when she reads it! Thanks for the laughy start to my day.
The government workers understand this philosophy too.
So very funny :-).. and so very true. :-)
This hit it right on - too bad, though. I liked #5
Whew...so true, funny and just plain scary.
Thanks for the 13 points.
This is so accurate, that it's really genius.
Of course, anyone who has worked for a decent sized company can especially relate to number 13. Promote him!
Thank you for visiting my blog, and your kind words about our Wendy. We will all miss her, especially my older son and his family, as she lived with him for the past 6 years.
And to change the subject, that little Ella of yours is a proper barrel of monkeys, and sooooo cute!
:-)
hi bev,
I was going to ask ya if you had hear from Tom,
jel
sorry bev, I thought you say tom , not tim
I wish I had understood this during my time with Mother Corp. Would have saved me a lot of heartache!
Hope Ella's feeling better soon. You're right: too much pain going on in the blogosphere.
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