How to Properly Place New Employees

Keith · 03-10-2007, 07:44 AM

HOW TO PROPERLY PLACE NEW EMPLOYEES
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> 1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
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> 2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.
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> 3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
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> 4. Then analyze the situation:
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> a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting
> Department.
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> b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.
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> c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in
> Engineering.
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> d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in
> Planning.
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> e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
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> f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.
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> g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information
> Technology.
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> h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.
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> i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking
> for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
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> j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.
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> k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
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> l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been
> moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.
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> Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that
> they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.