At my day-job, I had a manager over another area share this with me, suggesting it may be useful next time I’m filling a position on my team. I thought it held promise and took it to our recruiter. After reading it, she semi-politely explained she had no use for it. So, I thought I’d post it here.
How to properly place new employees:
An interpretive aide for hiring managers and recruiters . . .
1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Place your new hires in the room with the bricks.
3. Leave them alone with the bricks for six hours.
4. Return and have them account for their time.
Analyze the Situation and determine proper placement:
a. If they have simply counted the bricks, put them in the Accounting department.
b. If they have counted and recounted the bricks, assign them to Auditing.
c. If they have totally messed up the room with the bricks, put them in Engineering.
d. If they have arranged the bricks in some strange order that only they can explain, put them in Planning.
e. If they have thrown the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
f. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.
g. If they simply sat idle, put them in Human Resources.
h. If they were sleeping, put them in Security.
i. If they claim to have stacked them in different combinations and are now considering other combinations, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
j. If they left early for the day, put them in Management.
k. If they ignored the bricks all day and sat starring out a window, put them in Strategic Planning.
l. If they talked to each other all day and not a single brick was moved, congratulate them and put them on the Executive Management team.
m. If they have surrounded themselves with bricks so they can be neither seen nor heard, suggest they run for Congress.
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