Management Lessons

 I found this on a website - Bloody true!

Lesson No.1

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow answered: " Sure, why not."
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

Lesson No.2

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.
Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Lesson No.3

When the body was first made, all the parts wanted to be Boss. The brain said, "I should be Boss because I control the whole body's responses and functions." The feet said, " We should be Boss as we carry the brain about and get him to where he wants to go." The hands said, "We should be the Boss because we do all the work and earn all the money." And so it went on and on with the heart, the lungs and the eyes until finally the asshole spoke up. All the parts laughed at the idea of the asshole being the Boss. So the asshole went on strike, blocked itself up and refused to work. Within a short time the eyes became crossed, the hands clenched, the feet twitched, the heart and lungs began to panic and the brain fevered. Eventually they all decided that the asshole should be the Boss.

Management Lesson: You don't need brains to be a Boss - any asshole will do.

& Another 2 bite the dust!

Worcester - Fairy Glen. 9 Year old bull & 6 year old pregnant cow - darted with morphine & then dehorned with a panga! Mebbe I'm sick but I don't see that the legal execution of a tik mule in China rates more headline space than this. 

We are heading for the extinction of a species on the basis that less than 0,001% of the body weight of the animal is harvested for dubious medicinal properties! Oh, & the cow will have to be aborted. WTF is the 'Government' doing about this? Basically SFA!

Have a look at the Cape Times front page of this morning (12th December 2011) for ome really lovely pics to help the breakfast go down! :o(

Shoot a poacher a day!

 I just watched a fairly long news item about rhino poaching - centring mainly around a particular black rhino called Phila. This poor thing was shot a number of times (more than likely with an AK, either 7,62 or 5,56) & went down. The poachers were scared off before they were able to cut off the horns & the rhino survived. It was taken to a 'secure' boma within a vet compound where it recovered under treatment. It was finally decided by the owner that, to try & preserve it's life, they would dehorn Phila. With only stubs of horns remaining it was thought that the animal was now fairly safe. The bastards broke into the boma area & shot the animal from the enclosure fence (I think another 6 or 8 times). Why? To take the stubs of what was left of the horns? Or maybe just to prove a point to the owner? She still did not die but was eventually transferred to the Johannesburg Zoo, maybe death would have been preferable?
 Are people so enamoured with money or the status that wealth can bring that they are prepared to annihilate a specie of animal - possibly a link with the dinosaurs - that they will go to these lengths? That they will not only kill a pregnant cow but also a calf with no more than a stub for a horn?
 Now, presume that the sale of both Elephant ivory & Rhino horn were made legal. The horn could be harvested by darting the animals & removing the horn under anaesthetic & then placed on the market. Horns & tusks removed from animals dead from natural causes could also be marketed. Many Parks Boards have been forced to destroy tons of horn & ivory by burning. CITES insistence. The monies accrued from the sale could have gone to furthering education & combating poaching. By 'flooding' the market, the price would have dropped considerably thereby reducing the expected income for the poachers & making it less attractive for them.
 Then you have the idea of adding a poison to the horn under pressure. Now you get the civil rights bung heads going that it would not be right to poison unsuspecting 'users' & maybe (hopefully) killing a few! Sod that! I reckon the last is a much better idea, at least the poor bloody rhino get to keep their horns! And make the poison terminal to 'humans'! Doesn't help the elephant much tho'......