A woman desperately looking for work went into a factory. The personnel manager looked over her résumé and regretfully explained to her that he had nothing worthy of her talents. The woman answered that she really needed work and would take anything.
The personal manager hemmed and hawked and finally said that he did have a low-skilljob on the Tickle Me Elmo assembly line, but nothing else. The woman happily accepted his offer. He took her down to the line, explained her duties and told her to report at 8 am the next day.
The next morning at 8:45 am, there was a knock at the personnel manager's door. The Tickle Me Elmo line manager came in and started ranting about the women who had justt been hired. After listening to how badly backed up the assembly line was, the personnel manager suggested that the line manager show him the problem.
Together they went down to the line, and sure enough, Elmos were backed up from here to kindom come. Right at the end of the line was the woman who had just been hired. She had pulled over a roll of the material used for the Elmos and had a big bag of marbles. They watched as she cut a little piece of fabic, took two marbles and started sewing them between Elmo's legs.
The personnel manager started laughing uncontrollably. Finally, he pulled himself together, walked over to the new employee and said, " I'm sorry. i guess you misunderstood me yesterday. What i wanted you to do was give each Elmo two test tickles." |