Layoff – Root cause analysis

Once upon a time the government with a ruling party XYZ, had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.
Ruling Party XYZ afraid that, someone may steal things over the night. So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Now they have got a new question. “How does the watchman do his job without instruction?”. So they created a Planning Department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
This lead them to raise one more question “How will we know that, the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?” So they created a Quality Control Department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.
When it comes to salary, they have got a new question “How are these people going to get paid?” So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer; and then hired two more people.
One more question added in the row “Who will be accountable for all of these people?” So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
After an year, they said “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are ,$10,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost.”
So they laid-off the watchman.
Does this story remind you something. Yes you are right, this is the current situation in IT industries.
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