Here is one I think especially you fire people among us will be able to relate with:
Actually, anybody who had ever dealt with the FAA will get this as well.....
THE DEAD HORSE THEORY AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:
Tribal wisdom of the Lakota 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 Federal government, 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. Visiting other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassify the dead horse as "living-impaired."
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the
dead horse's performance.
11. 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.
12. Rewriting the performance requirements for all horses.