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  • R Rajesh_Francis

    A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went to the flagpole with a ladder and measuring tape. They keep falling off the ladder, dropping the tape and the whole thing is in a mess. An engineer comes along and sees what they are trying to do. He walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lay it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away. After the engineer left, one manager turns to another and laughs. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"

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    Rage
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    Smells like Captain America.

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    • R Rajesh_Francis

      A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went to the flagpole with a ladder and measuring tape. They keep falling off the ladder, dropping the tape and the whole thing is in a mess. An engineer comes along and sees what they are trying to do. He walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lay it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away. After the engineer left, one manager turns to another and laughs. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"

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      Duncan Edwards Jones
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      Did they add 10% for "estimate contingency" then divide it in half for "deadline heroism"? (Otherwise how are we sure that they are managers.. other than that a group of them are trying to perform a task that isn't parallelisable...)

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      • R Rajesh_Francis

        A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went to the flagpole with a ladder and measuring tape. They keep falling off the ladder, dropping the tape and the whole thing is in a mess. An engineer comes along and sees what they are trying to do. He walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lay it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away. After the engineer left, one manager turns to another and laughs. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"

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        HobbyProggy
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        :laugh: That's exactly how i think about Managers

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        • R Rajesh_Francis

          A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went to the flagpole with a ladder and measuring tape. They keep falling off the ladder, dropping the tape and the whole thing is in a mess. An engineer comes along and sees what they are trying to do. He walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lay it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away. After the engineer left, one manager turns to another and laughs. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"

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          S Houghtelin
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          Typical engineer, neglects to tell the managers to factor in the section that goes into the ground. And the engineer will find a way to make it the interns fault when the manager purchases a flag that is too large to fit on the pole.

          It was broke, so I fixed it.

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          • S S Houghtelin

            Typical engineer, neglects to tell the managers to factor in the section that goes into the ground. And the engineer will find a way to make it the interns fault when the manager purchases a flag that is too large to fit on the pole.

            It was broke, so I fixed it.

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            Duncan Edwards Jones
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            Typical mid-level managers, not realising when the chairman said "run this up the flag pole and see who salutes" he was using a metaphor.

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            • D Duncan Edwards Jones

              Did they add 10% for "estimate contingency" then divide it in half for "deadline heroism"? (Otherwise how are we sure that they are managers.. other than that a group of them are trying to perform a task that isn't parallelisable...)

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              Deflinek
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              Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

              divide it in half for "deadline heroism"

              That explains a lot how they set the deadlines :D

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              • R Rajesh_Francis

                A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went to the flagpole with a ladder and measuring tape. They keep falling off the ladder, dropping the tape and the whole thing is in a mess. An engineer comes along and sees what they are trying to do. He walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lay it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away. After the engineer left, one manager turns to another and laughs. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"

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                Never heard of a manager doing himself his own assignement.

                Veni, vidi, vici.

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                • R Rajesh_Francis

                  A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went to the flagpole with a ladder and measuring tape. They keep falling off the ladder, dropping the tape and the whole thing is in a mess. An engineer comes along and sees what they are trying to do. He walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lay it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away. After the engineer left, one manager turns to another and laughs. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"

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                  • C CPallini

                    Never heard of a manager doing himself his own assignement.

                    Veni, vidi, vici.

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                    Mycroft Holmes
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                    Struck me as odd, I would have thought they would schedule a set of meetings to decide which of them will assign it to a minion.

                    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                    • M Mycroft Holmes

                      Struck me as odd, I would have thought they would schedule a set of meetings to decide which of them will assign it to a minion.

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      CPallini
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                      Yes and due to the upside down pyramid-shaped hierarchy, the meeting is useless, since the minion is always the same. :rolleyes:

                      Veni, vidi, vici.

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