Just for laughs: For bureaucrats, there’s never a better time than never

If bosses can be dead losses, inefficient staff couldn’t come out any better. But this unfortunate Joe, for instance, quite had reason to believe that destiny had a measure in his censure. Or, why would the boss be the only man at the office who’s early when you’re late and late when you’re early?!?

Our bastions of bureaucratic business should hardly have platform to rue in that regard. The customary public servant is perennially late for work, insists on some 20 rounds of coffee during the day, and well, is equally disposed to doing the magical disappearing act too! But his superior could hardly have cause for complaint over that. Himself being schooled in the principle that: “There’s no better time to act than tomorrow.” Needless to say that in the streets of by and by, stands the hostelry of never.

But this boss could hardly pull up his secretary for taking him too literally. “I don’t want any callers this afternoon,” he ordered. “And if they say their business is important, just tell them that everyone says the same thing.” That noon the wife called in and insisted on seeing him. When the secretary refused, she claimed: “I am his wife.” To which the secretary promptly replied: “That’s what they all say.”

But this boss preferred to screen the applicants before he employed anyone: “Do you know what the motto of our firm is?” he asked of the prospective. To which the latter promptly replied, “sure, it’s push.” Amazed at his veracity, the boss asked him what gave him the idea. “I saw it on your door before I entered,” came the honest reply.

But this boss didn’t mince words when he explicitly informed the new employee about the company’s motto. “We have a very ingenious incentive scheme,” he informed the newcomer. “It’s called the fear of the sack!”