Who Is Watching Who

The other day, some of my friends were talking about jobs that have too many workers. Someone mentioned road workers. These are almost always either government jobs or government contracted jobs. No matter what state you live in, the scenario will be the same. There is a job that needs to be done. Six workers are dispatched. One holds the orange flag, one sits in the truck, one digs and three others watch and talk. That means that 50% of the work force is idle. Seventy percent if we count the man sitting in the truck, talking on his cell phone. I have seen this happen throughout the many east coast states that I have traveled. Coincidentally, the next day, some road work was being done at my office. This is the g-ds honest truth. Five men were there. One man was digging a hole. One was holding a blue tarp. Three were circled around the man digging, just watching him. After fifteen minutes, the digging man stopped. The tarp man laid out the tarp and cut it in half, while the other four watched. Then one of the "fab four" fished a wire into the hole, while the new foursome watched. At no time during those three hours was any more than one person working. My thought was, is there a digging specialist, a tarp specialist and a fishing expert? Or maybe, just maybe, too many men, were on the payroll.