Consultants

[chandra]

This was floating around a year back and I was rofl because just the previous day, at a greek restraunt the waiter gave us a spoon out of his pocket!!

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A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an

organization. Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant.

After a while, we noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a

spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange, but I ignored

it.

However, when the busboy brought out water and utensils, I noticed

he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around the room

and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter

came back to serve our soup I asked, "Why the spoon?"

"Well," he explained, "the restaurant's owners hired Andersen

Consulting, experts in efficiency, in order to revamp all our processes.

After several months of statistical analysis, they concluded that the

spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. This represents a drop

frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our

personnel is prepared to deal with that contingency, we can reduce the

number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift."

As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to

replace it immediately with his spare spoon. "I'll get another spoon

next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it

right now." I was rather impressed.

Later I noticed that there was a very thin string hanging out of

the waiter's fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had

the same string hanging from their flies. My curiosity got the better

of me and before he walked off, I asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can

you tell me why you have that string right there?"

"Oh, certainly!" he answered, lowering his voice. "Not everyone is

as observant as you. That consulting firm I mentioned also found out

that we can save time in the restroom."

"How so?" "See," he continued, "by tying this string to the tip of

you know what, we can pull it out over the urinal without touching it

and that way eliminate the need to wash the hands, shortening the time

spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent."

"But, after you get it out, how do you put it back?", I inquired.

"Well," he whispered, lowering his voice even further, "I don't know

about the others, but I use the spoon."

[Joe G]

[AfricaBrass]

[Rooster_Ties]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

[7/4]

[Brad]

Those Andersen and McKinsey guys, get rid of 'em.

[BERIGAN]

[Jazzmoose]

Me:

The wife:

Sorry, I just report 'em...

[vibes]

I work with several Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) people on a daily basis. I'm sure they'd love this.