Something to think about now and before the next election!

[slofox]

Well most folk dont listen to grumpy old bastards do they.....

But but but - I wasn't a grumpy old bastard when I started!

[mashman]

Huh?
Mine is way cheaper to start with.

Yeah, but that's before tax, GST and associated ACC levies ... not to mention the cleanup costs.

[oldrider]

Another gem I picked up on another forum, fits this thread I think:


Dead Horse Theory

– The Tribal wisdom of the 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 (and NZ) more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that the dead horses can be included.
6. Re-classifying 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 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.


Funny how easily little old New Zealand fits into these theories like a hand into a glove!

Having ended up in a managers position (that no one else would take on at the time)

I often wondered about "promotion beyond competence" or promotion by the "dead horse theory"!

Oh well, better to try and fail than never to have tried at all .... I feel comfortable with my own contribution but as Robbie Burns the poet wrote:

Would that God, the gift to give us, to see ourselves as others see us! .... Guess I will never really know the truth of that!

[Bikemad]

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

trouble is that the dead horse is already in charge........

[avgas]

Yeah, but that's before tax, GST and associated ACC levies ... not to mention the cleanup costs.

All these only exist WITH a government.