No loss of production

I was chatting with one of my favourite in-laws last night about work. He’s a skilled tradesman, and he told me this story:

A few years back, I was working on a big job with a whole bunch of guys. The foreman on the job had left the company, so management was looking for a new foreman to oversee everybody.

They picked the most incompetent fool out all of us to be the foreman. The guy was a complete idiot. No clue at all about what he was doing.

So me and my buddy went to speak to the guy in charge about his choice of foreman. “Why’d you have to pick this guy?” we asked. “He’s a lazy fool!”

“Well yeah,” replied the manager. “But we’ve only got a limited number of guys working on this job. Picking him as foreman means there’s no loss of production.”

Remember this the next time you work your butt off to get a promotion!

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