Farmer Joke
A man owned a small farm in Alabama.
The Department of Consumer & Employment Protection heard that he was not paying proper wages to his employees and sent an agent down to interview him.
"I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the agent.
"Well," replied the farmer, "there's my farm hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $400 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $450 per week plus free room and board. Then there's the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally."
"That's the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit," says the agent.
"That would be me," replied the farmer.
The Department of Consumer & Employment Protection heard that he was not paying proper wages to his employees and sent an agent down to interview him.
"I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the agent.
"Well," replied the farmer, "there's my farm hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $400 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $450 per week plus free room and board. Then there's the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally."
"That's the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit," says the agent.
"That would be me," replied the farmer.
posted by Realist @ 5:11 PM
1 Comments:
At 4:15 PM,
Murfyn said…
That is funny. And yet . . . if he really only made $10 a week, he couldn't afford to pay those other people wages. Which illustrates my favorite Peter F. Drucker quote:
In modern business, there are no profits, only costs.
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