night watchman joke

savage170

The government has a vast scrap yard in the middle of the desert. The congressman whose district it's in says someone might steal from it at night, so congress creates a night watchman, GS-4 position and hires a person for the job. Then the congressman asks, "How does the watchman do his job with out instruction?"

So congress creates a planning position and hires two people - one person to write the instructions, a GS-12, and one person to do time studies, a GS-11.

"How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" the congressman asks.

So Congress creates a quality control position and hires a GS-9 to do quality control studies and a GS-11 to write the reports. Then the congressman asks "How are these people going to get paid?"

So congress authorizes a positions of timekeeper, GS-9, and payroll officer, GS-11, and two people are hired to fill the slots.

"Who will be accountable for all of these people?" the congressman asks.

So they hire three people, and administrative officer, GS-13, an assistant administrative officer GS-12, and a legal secretary, a GS-8. On the eve of the next election season the congressman looks at the cost and says, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $40,000 over budget. We must cutback overall costs."

So they lay off the night watchman.

hillbille

and then he gets fined for losing his insurance.......

AzAfshin

[:D][:D]

Alpine

Most jokes have elements of truth.

This joke is very, very sadly true.

It is exactly how any government program works, or more truthfully doesn't work.

Sparky55

The worst part about this is that the watchman is a cattle guard!!!

dreher

It is a government job, the watchman can't be fired. They placed the watchman on paid administrative leave!! Like most governmental employees there is no change in the amount of work the watchman does either as a full time government employee or as an employee on administrative leave.[}:)][}:)]

armilite

How true