A guy stopped at a local gas station, and after filling his tank, he bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole.
After observing this for a little while, the man approached the men with shovels. "Can you tell me what’s going on here with all this digging and refilling?"
"Well, we work for the government and we’re just doing our job," one of the men said.
"But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. You’re not accomplishing anything. Aren’t you wasting the taxpayers’ money?"
"You don’t understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally there’s three of us: me, Elmer and Leroy. I dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree, and Leroy here puts the dirt back."
Elmer’s job’s been cut . . . so now it’s just me an’ Leroy.
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I guess there are all kinds of things to say about this story. It is important to know what you are doing and why, and when it doesn’t make sense, then maybe it’s time to do something else.
Have a great weekend!
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