NZ Government, National-style

[MSTRS]

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of nowhere.

Government said "Someone may steal from it at night". So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Government asked "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

Then Government said "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

Then Government said "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people.

Then Government said "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Government said "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost". So they laid off the night watchman.

[Grizzo]

Sums it up nicely.

[Bassmatt]

Then they realised it was all done illegally so they retrospectively changed the law to cover their useless arses.

[avgas]

Moral of the story:
New Zealand is full of idiots you can hire. None of which can do their job. Even if its watching a pile of scrap.

[mashman]

:clap: As Grizzo said, sums it up nicely... and cannot spread to MSTRS again

[JimO]

labour was no better

[MSTRS]

labour was no better

Ya think?

Actually, the joke could be improved...

Once upon a time the Labour government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of nowhere.

Labour said "Someone may steal from it at night". So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Labour asked "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

Then Labour said "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

Then Labour said "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people.

Then Labour said "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Labour lost the election to National, who looked at the books and said...

"We are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost". So they laid off the night watchman.