A friend shared with me an article of one Chinese-written blog on Management In Company sometimes ago. It was amusingly sarcastic yet true to the core, cynically factual as per what we see in real life back in our battlefield.
Let’s quote a real-life example but with lil’ alteration to avoid coincidence of names and scenario :p
A private tuition centre named Cemerlang is doing their Annual Action Plan for year 2010. It supposed to be done by January 2010 but up to March it’s still in chaos. Nevermind, that’s not the core matter we address here today. The Principal of Pusat Tuisyen Cemerlang set KPIs for each department. One of the KPIs for the English department (which consists of 3 English teachers) will be: conducting averagely 3 tuition days for approximately 1000 students in year 2010.
Get the joke? Nevermind, I’ll explain in simple calculation.
Data provided:
Number of English teachers: 3 (having NOT taking into consideration that senior teacher will bully junior :P)
Number of students: 1000
Targeted average tuition day per student in year 2010: 3 days
Mandatory: No external source which will incur cost will be allowed.
Hypothesis: IMPOSSIBLE to be achieved. Those who tried will die in various diseases (overworked, exhaustion, depression, mental disorder) and yet die without achieving even average of 1 day tuition per student.
Calculation:
Assumption: Assuming 20% of students withdraw from the school or couldn’t attend classes for any sort
of reason (diarrhea, MC, decease, truancy); there will be only 800 students left
Number of tuition days in total for 800 students= 800 x 3 days = 2400 days
Each English teacher will have to teach for = 2400/ 3 teachers (3 teachers by assumption only yea :P)
= 800 days in a year
Common sense/Facts: 365 days in a year
Weekend : 52 x 2(Saturday & Sunday) = 104 days
Annual leave = 16 days
Public holiday: 19 days – those fall on Saturday =9 days
Total working day in year 2010= 365-104-16-9
= 236 days
Finding:
1. There are 236 working days in Selangor state for year 2010 and 3 English teachers in Pusat Tuisyen Cemerlang are measured against their KPI to complete 800 tuition days each to achieve 3 average tuition days per student for 800 students. Interesting?
2. Simple calculation yet an almighty Principal who climbs to the top of hierarchy and having more than 25 years of working experience fails to see. Amusing?
CONCLUSION: When people climb higher, they start to shit using their heads and think using their asses (quoted and altered from Mark Lee’s Blog)
