In a fictitious company, “OverKillRUs”, a ceiling light just went dead, and so an engineer, an accountant and a lawyer was sent in to take a look. The engineer took a look and said “This is a 100W bi-pin lamp that runs on balast housing. The ballast and starter looks ok, it is the fluorescent tube that is burnt out, we need to replace it”.
The accountant took the tube in hand, checked his notebook for inventory and started punching in some numbers. After some time, he declared “This tube was bought 3 years and 5 months ago, and if amortized over its intended five years would have brought in an … … and therefore, considering everything, we should replace this tube with a cheaper tube so as to defray the overall maintenance cost.”
At that, the lawyer quipped “I say, we sue the manufacturer!”
The above is based on an email joke that I read a long time ago. It was funny then and even funnier now, as I believe I must have inevitably upgraded it a bit. Funny how things get remembered over time. But that is not the point in . . . → Read More: Sending an engineer, an accountant and a lawyer to fix a burnt lamp
