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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:10:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: CEE Grad Advising <ceegradv@ce.washington.edu>
To: Graduate Students in CEE <cegrads@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Management (fwd)
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A group of managers was given the assignment to measure the height of a
flagpole. So they go out to the flagpole with ladders and tape measures,
and they're falling off the ladders, dropping the tape measures - the
whole thing is just a mess. 

An engineer comes along and sees what they're trying to do, walks over,
pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lays it flat, measures it from end
to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers, and walks away. 
After the engineer had gone, one manager turned to another and laughed.

"Isn't that just like an engineer, we're looking for the height, and he
gives us the length!" 

(probably written by an engineer, but this was corrected and edited by a
liberal arts major. . .)  :)





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