Thursday, October 23, 2008

How many people does it take to fix a toilet?

In Bangladesh it took 122 people to fix the toilet. Or so their books say.  A new corporation searching out corruption found that the one agency paid 122 people to fix a single toilet.  This has been happening for the last 7 years as funds have been misappropriated.  Also at the same time over 100 people have been paid for electrical work that they later found was never carried out. 

Getting paid to do nothing? Sounds like a dream job to me. Or getting paid to fix something that has already been fixed by one of the other 121 people ahead of you?  Even better! However, it does make me question: How could they not get found out? Does it really take that many people? What could possibly be their argument for this? That it was a really big toilet? It does not make sense that any government agency would think this is effective. 

Kind of makes me wish I was Joe the Plumber.

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