Handy guide to testing employees

Scatter one hundred bricks in a room with an open window, send in your newly hired employees, close the door, then return at the end of the day and analyze the bricks.

  • If they counted the bricks, put them in accounting.
  • If they counted and recounted the bricks, put them in auditing.
  • If they messed up the bricks, put them in engineering.
  • If they arranged the bricks in a unique way, put them in planning.
  • If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategic planning.
  • If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.
  • If they are sleeping, put them in reception.
  • If they broke the bricks to tiny pieces, put them in information technology.
  • If they are sitting and talking about the bricks, put them in human resources.
  • If they claim to have tried different combinations, yet not a brick is moved, put them in sales.
  • If they have already gone home, put them in marketing.
  • And finally: if they are just sitting around talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved, put them in upper management.

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