Nova wrote in
:

A Japanese Company and an American Company had a boat race. The
Japanese Company won by a mile. The Americans hired consultants to
determine what went wrong. The consultants said that the Japanese
Company had six rowers and one manager while the American Company had
four managers and two rowers. The Americans immediately restructured
it's team to have three Sr. Managers, three Managers and one rower.
In the rematch, the Japanese Company won by two miles - The Americans
fired the rower.

It couldn't have been an American telephone company. They would have
announced that due to restructuring they projected to lose by three
miles, actual performance exceeded their goals by 33% and declared
themselves the winner.


Where upon they raised rates, cut retiree benefits, and awarded the
executives additional compensation, retirement, perks, and 'freshened' the
golden parachute clauses.

Isn't it great that Bernie Ebbers is finally going to trial? Did you see
that part where the defense attorney called the ex-CFO a liar? My response
would have been: "Yeah, but he was _your_ liar."

Patriarch,
one of the burned...