How Government Works

[Guest Peter James]

How Government Works

 

Once upon a time the government owned a vast scrap yard in the middle of nowhere. Parliament said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a man to do the job.

 

Then Parliament said, "How does the night 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 Parliament 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 Parliament said, "How are these people going to get paid and administered?" So they created the following positions, two time keepers and four payroll officers, and then hired five human resources consultants and six health and safety executives.

 

Then Parliament said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired fifty people including administrative officers, assistant administrative officers, legal secretaries and a chief executive on £350,000 per annum

 

Then Parliament said, "We have had this in operation for over one year and we are £25,000,000 over budget, we must cutback the overall cost."

 

So they laid off the night watchman.

 

[Guest peter]

Sounds about right. Unfortunately it's how some businesses operate as well. No wonder the countriy's in the brown stuff.

[Guest pelmetman]

Don't forget if you fancy a long holiday on full pay..........just make a 40 million pound cock up *-)