When I just arrived in China donkey years ago, a Chinese policeman told me a joke about how a government department has staff that are from one big happy family and close friends and relatives from the same village.
It appears that a friend of his just got promoted to a quite senior position in a government agency.
What happened was that hypothetically, this new senior official created a new post of Manager for his brother to be in charge of all the toilets in the building, there were 8 toilets.
This manager brother then went on to create 8 more posts for his wife, sons, close friends, and relatives to assist him as assistant managers of toilets, each assistant in charge of 1 toilet.
Then these assistant managers went on to employ deputy assistant managers, team leaders, senior toilet cleaners, assistant senior toilet cleaners, toilet cleaners, and assistant toilet cleaners.
When it comes to doing the real work, only 16 assistant toilet cleaners were cleaning the toilets daily while the rest of the “management staff” were either at home, on holiday, sexing with their mistress or playing mahjong.
In the end, that government department was practically feeding the entire village.
You say funny or not this joke?
The above comments were posted in the TRE. I think this is a brilliant idea to create high value jobs with big titles so that more people can be paid highly and be very happy. There is no need to worry about money as the money comes from Ah Kong. Can use Ah Kong's money to buy loyalty also.
Singapore can really learn from the above and use the clever ideas to create more jobs for Singaporeans and make more Singaporeans very happy, getting big titles, getting big fat pay, and doing nothing.
What do you think? The policeman clever or not?
