Where to place New Employees
1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room. 2. Put your new hired employees in the room and close the door. 3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours, then analyze the situation: If they're counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department. If they're recounting them, put them in Auditing. If they've messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering. If they're arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning. If they're throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations. If some of the bricks are missing, put them in Logistics. If they've broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology. If they're sitting idle, put them in Human Resources. If they say they've tried different combinations, they're looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales. If they've already left for the day, put them in Marketing. If they're staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning. If they're talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management. 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 ~~ Thanks to gr8fisch/zahra |
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| I got this email from a CEO club regarding this post.
Dear Zhara, Please STOP giving away our corporate secrets... The brick test has been our competitive advantage for years. Sincerely, FW Woolworth Grants Gilchrist Filene's Jordan Marsh Marshall Field's |
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May I add one: If they are throwing bricks at each other put them in cubicles and tell them they are now a team and there is no I in team. (If you only knew how much I hate that phrase.) |
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BatonRougeSheepies wrote: :lol:
May I add one: If they are throwing bricks at each other put them in cubicles and tell them they are now a team and there is no I in team. (If you only knew how much I hate that phrase.) All of it...HILARIOUS and so true! |
| Tell them there is also no "WE" in cooperate, or that there is no "WE" in TEAM, either, as you hit them with a brick. Then tell them that there is not only an "I" in brick, but also a brick in their eye.
I'm sorry, was that out loud again? |
| Funny! |
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| There is no "I" in team, but there is a "ME!"
Paula, who is definitely NOT a team player. |
| Good one! |
Funny.  I can agree with quite a few of these ... particularly the one about Senior Management. I forwarded most of this list to several co-workers, although I changed the engineering one to this:
* If they've made more bricks but not actually built anything with them, put them in Engineering. |
| What happens if one employee takes all the bricks home? Will he/she become the new CEO? |
| El Gato , did you write this list? |
LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY! (Which umm... almost got me into trouble  ) |
How did I miss this? What a RIOT!! Working for corporate America, it's scary how dead-on this is!!  |
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