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Old 08-10-2003, 06:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Spoon

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."
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Old 08-10-2003, 06:39 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Lol, a bit long but still funny.
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Old 08-10-2003, 07:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Nice.. I like the waiter's logic...
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Old 08-11-2003, 02:27 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Lol!! Old but still funny! Great post!
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Old 08-11-2003, 02:45 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Like it
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Old 08-11-2003, 11:56 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Thats a Classic.. I remembering posting it on another forum a while ago... Though I think the title was The String & The Spoon, but I digress
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Old 08-11-2003, 12:46 PM   #7 (permalink)
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hehe old joke ..but funny still=)
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Old 08-11-2003, 03:11 PM   #8 (permalink)
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good stuff
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Old 08-11-2003, 10:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
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At least it wasn't a fork..

Good one. =)
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Old 08-11-2003, 10:55 PM   #10 (permalink)
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