Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately.
每天，小螞蟻很早來上工，並且一來就開始做事。
She produces a lot was happy.
她的生產力很高，並且工作愉快。
The Chief, a lion,
was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision.
身為老闆的獅子，非常驚奇螞蟻能自行工作而不須監督。
He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a supervisor!
他認為在沒有監督下的螞蟻生產力是如此的好，如果有人監督的話她的生產力應該會更好才對!
So he recruited a cockroach
who had extensive experience as supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports.
因此他招募了有豐富經驗的蟑螂作為監督員，蟑螂以擅長撰寫優良報告而聞名。
The cockroach’s first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system.
蟑螂的第一個決定是設立了打卡計時系統。
He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and …
他也需要一個秘書幫助他繕寫和鍵入報告和……
... he recruited a spider, who managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.
他招募了蜘蛛，負責管理檔案和監管所有電話。
The lion was delighted with the cockroach's reports
and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyse trends, so that he could use them for presentations at Board‘s meetings.
獅子對蟑螂的報告非常高興並要求他用圖表描述生產率和分析趨勢變化，因而他能在董事會上用這些資料來報告。
So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and ...
因此蟑螂必須買一臺新的電腦和雷射印表機和…
... recruited a fly
to manage the IT department.
.. 並招募蒼蠅來管理資訊部門。
The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time…!
曾經是很有生產力和輕鬆的螞蟻，恨透了這些耗盡她大多數時間的過多文書作業和會議…!
The lion came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department where the ant worked.
獅子做出結論這是提名螞蟻工作部門負責人的時候了。
The position was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an ergonomic chair for his office.
這個位置被賦予給了蟬，蟬的第一個決定是為他的辦公室買一張地毯和一把符合人體工學的椅子。
The new person in charge, the cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant, who he brought from his previous department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control Strategic Optimisation Plan …
新的人負責，蟬，也需要一部電腦和一位從他原先部門帶來的個人助理，來幫助他準備工作和預算控制策略優化計劃…
The Department where the ant works is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset...
螞蟻工作的部門現在是一個哀傷的地方，不再有人會笑，而且大家變得抓狂…
It was at that time that the cicada convinced the boss , the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment .
就是那時蟬說服獅子上司，強調要開始進行組織氣候調查的绝對必要性。
Having reviewed the charges for running the ant’s department , the lion found out that the production was much less than before.
在審查了螞蟻的部門運作費用後，獅子發現生產力比以前大幅減少。
So he recruited the owl , a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.
所以他招募了貓頭鷹，一位有名望和顯耀的顧問來執行稽核工作並建議解決之道。
The owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report , in several volumes,
that concluded :
“ The department is overstaffed ...”
貓頭鷹在部門待了三個月並且產生了一份有數冊之多的巨大的報告，結論是：「部門成員人數過多…」
Guess who the lion fires first?
猜猜獅子首先解雇誰？
The ant , of course, because she
“showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude".
當然，是螞蟻，因為她「顯現出缺乏做事的動機並且態度消極」。發表人:
pilied2k 時間: 2009-11-29 04:23 PM
講的非常氣憤
但有啥辦法可解決嗎發表人:
ad5747 時間: 2009-12-2 09:45 AM
殘酷的現實阿
靠學貸結果畢業沒工作的更慘ˊˋ發表人:
watchme 時間: 2009-12-4 09:28 AM
其實台灣目前的狀況，還算自然而且健康，真的不用過度擔心，鐘擺擺過頭，終究是要擺回來的，但是一旦停擺，那才真是需要擔心的。
物價房價的上漲，對你我這樣的小老百姓，有什麼影響？我舉個例子好了，10年前，你買一間房子，需要1000萬，跟銀行貸了500萬，分20年償還，現在，房價飆高，你的房子現值2500萬，你的負債已經償還了一半，還剩下250萬，負債比從五成降為一成，顯示出你的財務變得更健全了，但是實際上呢？你還是為了那250萬的房貸，過著牛拉車的苦日子。賣掉變現嗎？就算是賣了，你要買到等值的房子，你還是照樣要負債250萬。所以，房地產的榮景對你而言，是沒有幫助的，只增加還沒購屋者的負擔，增加更多買不起房子的人。
回頭看看所謂的 GDP，GDP 只是一個衡量經濟活動的數據，GDP 的成長，只能說明統計區域的經濟活動增加，而經濟活動增加可以來自交易量的增加以及交易價的增加，如果價漲到兩倍，而 GDP 只成長 1.5 倍，對政府而言，可以獲得的稅收依然可以成長 1.5 倍，所以政府會宣稱經濟復甦，但對於統計區域而言，他的交易量是萎縮成 0.75 倍，你還能相信 GDP 成長等同於經濟復甦嗎？雖說 GDP 成長，但對於經濟活絡的健康度，反而是下降的。所以 GDP 的成長，相對於你我這樣的小老百姓而言，是沒有實質面的幫助。而我們應該要關注的，是在薪資與物價比，薪資成長-物價成長=實質薪資成長，這才是對小老百姓有幫助的，因為你賺到的錢，可以買更多的東西，對你的生活而言，才有好處。如同房價飆漲，GDP 的高成長，只是讓薪資成長追不上物價的人過得更苦而已。
政府追求 GDP 的成長，是為了獲得更多的稅收，沒什麼不對，但是為了讓 GDP 成長，而破壞了經濟結構，那跟揠苗助長沒兩樣，遲早會造成災難的。
