The breakdown

When an engineer, manager and programmer were driving down a steep mountain road the brakes failed and the car careered down the road out of control.

Somehow halfway down, the driver managed to stop the car. They all got out, shaken by their narrow escape, but otherwise unharmed.

The manager said "To fix this problem we need to organise a committee, have meetings, and through a process of continuous improvement, develop a solution."

The engineer said "No that would take too long, and besides that method never worked before.

I have my trusty pen knife here and will take apart the brake system, isolate the problem and correct it."

The programmer said "I think you're both wrong! I think we should all push the car back up the hill and see if it happens again." The jokes.

The Order

A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totalling a great deal of money. The distributor noticed that the previous bill had not been paid by this customer. The collections manager left a voice-mail for the customer saying, "We can't ship your new order until you pay for the last one". The next day the collections manager received a phone call from the customer saying, "Please cancel the order. We cannot wait that long. "

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