Riding a dead horse.

I saw this on another site and had to post it here.

Societies don't always get smarter as they evolve....:)
[B][U]Disclaimer[/U][/B]: [B][I]No horses were mistreated or endangered during the posting of this item; and any horses appearing in this joke are fictitious. Any resemblance to real horses, living or dead, is purely coincidental.[/I][/B]

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

But with the march of progress, as with many pieces of good sense that should be our heritage and legacy, there is often a disconnect....or override.
In modern commerce (and education and government, etc...), because heavy investment factors and agendas are taken into consideration, other strategies are often tried with dead horses, including the following:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Threatening the horse with termination.

4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

7. Reclassifying the dead horse as "living-impaired."

8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.

11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

12. Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and therefore contributes more to the bottom line than some other horses.

13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

14. Instituting an affirmative action policy to hire more dead horses, on the basis that they would be fine if only their lack of skills were not held against them.

And, as a final strategy:

15. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position [IMG]http://forums.iboats.com/images/smilies/facepalm.gif[/IMG]