My email has been down for a couple of days. You can imagine how happy I was when it opened for me this morning! When I read this one, I just knew that some of you would enjoy it. Feel free to post any relevant pics or threadjack at will.
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
7. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
8. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.
9. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
10. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
11. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course the all time favorite...........
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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