Not original, I found it elsewhere, but SO relevant:
An interesting (fictional) tale, a little too close to the truth, I think.
The Story Of An Ant
Every day, an ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately. She produces a lot and is very happy.
The Chief, a Lion was surprised to see the ant working without supervision. So the Lion thought that if the ant produces so much without supervision, how much more would the ant produce if supervised.
So he recruited a Cockroach, who had extensive experience as a supervisor and was excellent at writing reports.
The Cockroaches first idea was to set up a "clocking in" system, he also needed a secretary to assist him with writing and filing reports. He then recruited a Spider to manage the archives and monitor all phone conversations.
The Lion was delighted with the Cockroaches reports and asked him to produce graphs of production rates and to analyse trends, so he could use them for presentations at Board meetings.
This meant that the Cockroach had to buy a new computer, laser printer and ........recruited a Fly to manage the I.T dept.
The Ant who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings, which now took up most of her time .....
The Lion came to the decision it was high time he nominated someone to take charge of the dept. where the ant worked.
The position was given to a Cicada who's first decision was to buy a new carpet and an ergonomic chair, for his office. ToThe new person, the Cicada needed a new computer and a personal assistant, who he brought from his previous dept., to help him prepare a work and Budget Control Strategic Optimisation Plan.
It was at this time that the Cicada convinced his boss the Lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment.
Having reviewed the charges for running the Ants dept., the Lion found out that production was far less than before.
So he recruited Owl, a prestigious and renowned consultant, to carry out an audit and put forward suggestions. The Owl spent three months in the dept and came up with an enormous report in several volumes, that concluded the dept. was over staffed.
Guess who the Lion fires first. . . . . . Yes, the ant because it showed "LACK OF MOTIVATION AND HAD A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE."
And this is why we have, over the years, added over 200,000 new government employees, and no one can explain why we are still in a recession. It's not a good time to be an ant.
And......
That's why I am SOOO thankful to be RETIRED!, Just keep sending my pension.
