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Good story with old version…

The washer man and the foolishdonkey..........new generation



There was once a washer man who had a donkey and adog.

One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief

broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleepbut the donkey and the dog were awake.

The dog decided not to bark since the master did not

take good care of him and wanted to teach him alesson.



The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if hedoesn't bark, the donkey will have to do somethinghimself.

The dog did not change his mind and the donkeystarted braying loudly.

Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying inthe middle of the night for no reason.



Moral of the story " One must not engage in

duties other than his own"



Now take a new look at the

same story…



The washer man was a well educated man from a premier management institute.

He had the fundas of looking at the bigger pictureand thinking out of the box.

He was convinced that there must be some reasonfor the donkey to bray in the night.

He walked outside a little and did some fact finding ,applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the

ground realities that there was a thief who broke inand the donkey only wanted to alert him about it.



Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and goingbeyond the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot

of hay and other perks and became his favorite pet.

The dog's life didn't change much, except that nowthe donkey was more motivated in doing the dogs

duties as well.



In the annual appraisal the dog managed a "meets requirement" Soon the dog realized thatthe donkey is taking care of his duties and he canenjoy his life sleeping and lazing around.

The donkey was rated as "star performer". Thedonkey had to live up to his already high

performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation…



If you have worked in a

corporate environment, I amsure you have guessed thecharacters of the new story



A good story for all of

us to follow in our

careers and sociallife………..very true



Once upon a time a Washerman

was bringing up two donkeys. Let us say

Donkey-A and Donkey-B



Donkey-A felt it wasvery energetic andcould do better thanthe other . It alwaystried to pull thewasherman’s attractionover it by taking moreload and walking fast

in front of him.

Innocent Donkey-B is normal, so it will walknormal, irrespective of

the washerman’spresence.



After a period of time, Washerman startedpressurising Donkey-B to be like Donkey-A.

But Donkey-B unable to walk fast, got continuouspunishment from Washerman.

He was crying and told personally to Donkey-A“Dear friend, only we two are here,why tocompete with each other….we can carry equalload at normal speed “.



That made Donkey-A all the moreenergetic and next day it told to

washerman that it can carry moreload and even it can run fast also.



Obviously happier washerman looked atDonkey-B.., his BP raised and he startedkicking Donkey-B.

Next day with smile, Donkey-A carried moreload and started running fast.

But it was breathtaking for Donkey-B and itcouldn’t act that way….

But the washerman was frustrated, so heharassed Donkey-B terribly, and finally it felldown hopelessly



Then Donkey-A felt itself as a supremo and happilystarted carrying more load with great speed. Butnow the Load of the Donkey-B is also being carriedby Donkey-A., and still it has to run fast.

For some period it did, finally due to fatigue it got tired and started feeling the pain.

But washerman expected more from Donkey-A. Italso tried best, but couldn’t cope up with hisowners demand.



The Washerman got angry with Donkey-A alsoand started harassing to take more load… Donkey-A was crying for long time and thentried its best… But it couldn’t meet the owner’ssatisfaction.

Finally the day came when due to frustrationthe washerman killed Donkey-A and went for searching some other Donkeys.



Its an endless story……….But the moral of the Story in Corporate

and social life is……,



“Think all colleagues are same and that everyone iscapable….

Always Share the Load equally…..

Don’t ever act smart in front of your Boss and never tryfor getting over-credit…

It doesn’t matter if u r A or B, for the Boss u shall bealways DONKEY “

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