The American Way To RUIN a Business

[Rogue]

A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.

The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents and
1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.

The next year the Japanese won by two miles.

Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India.

[Hipshot]

Hmmmmm ..... sounds like that $28M payment to the CEO at Ford for their sterling performance at posting a $1.2B loss.

[The Reaper]

Good joke.

As for Ford, poor design, poor quality, poor service, and the Ford Foundation's support of wacky left-wing causes have soured me on Fords forever, and my Dad was a Ford guy.

For the life of me, I can't believe that a company making the majority of their money off pick-up trucks, LE vehicles, and repro muscle cars would put the support into lib causes that Ford has. The are way into the gay agenda, global peace, social justice (socialism), etc., etc.

Why should I look at Ford vehicles, ever again?

TR

[Rogue]

CEO's, what other job in America guarantees you a golden parachute even if you are fired for poor performance.......

The rest of us would get a boot in the ___!

[stakk4]

Next year they are exporting the rowing job overseas. The rower will row at the same pace for a substantially smaller salary. This can allow all the "rowing supervisors" raises.

Why can't they just cook the books and lie about the rower's time?