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Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately.
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She produces a lot and she was happy.
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The Chief, a lion, was surprised to see
that the ant was working without
supervision.
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He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a
supervisor!
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So he recruited a cockroach
who had extensive experience as
supervisor and who was famous for
writing excellent reports.
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The cockroach’s first decision was to set up
a clocking in attendance system.
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He also needed a secretary to help him
write and type his reports and …
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... he recruited a spider, who managed the
archives and monitored all phone calls.
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The lion was delighted with the cockroach's
reports and asked him to
produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyse
trends, so that he could use them for
presentations at Board‘s meetings.
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So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and ...
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... recruited a fly to manage the IT department.
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The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time…!
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The lion came to the conclusion that it was
high time to nominate a person in charge of the department where the
ant worked.
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The position was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an
ergonomic chair for his office.
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The new person in charge, the cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant ,who he brought from his previous
department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget
Control Strategic Optimisation Plan …
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The Department where the ant works is now a sad place,
where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become
upset...
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It was at that time that the cicada convinced the boss , the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment .
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Having reviewed the charges for running the ant’s department , the
lion found out that the production
was much less than before.
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So he recruited the owl , a prestigious
and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.
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The owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report , in several volumes,that concluded : “ “ The department is The department is overstaffed ...”overstaffed ...”
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Guess who the lion fires first?
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The ant , of course, because she “showed lack of motivation and had a negative
attitude".
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Os personagens desta fábula são fictícios; qualquer semelhança com pessoas ou factos reais é pura coincidência.
NB:NB:
The characters in this fable are The characters in this fable are fictitious; any resemblance fictitious; any resemblance toreal people or facts within toreal people or facts within the the CorporationCorporation is pure is pure coincidencecoincidence……
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Adapted from Portuguese by PR. Obrigado Mário.