Late for the Sky

Productivity

Jen McNamee had a link to this game the other day.

You have to play the game or the following won't make sense (as if I ever do)
If this game were an actual enterprise in the US, this is what you would hear:
ENGINEER: It's a simple problem of selecting the least number of simple machines to move the grain to the bucket.
WORKER 1: Who's brilliant idea was it to design a system where the grain is dropped on the roof of a building with the bucket stored inside?
WORKER 2: Why don't we just move the bucket?
MANAGER: This is the way we've always done it.
MIDDLE MANAGER: Look, I've got ten people calling in sick, one filing a workers comp claim saying he hurt himself trying to move the damn bucket, customers calling for their deliveries and managers on my butt for cycle times exceeding the standard. And every time we achieve the cycle time, they cut it by ten seconds.
CFO: Our workers comp rates were just raised by the state, our health insurance premiums went up 25%, union wages go up 5% next week and the lease amortizations on the multiple "simple" machines the engineers ordered are killing our quarterlies. If we outsource this grain collection to Mexico, we can boost our eps by 25 cents.
CEO: The street predicted a 26 cent eps increase. Our stock is gonna get killed.
INVESTOR: Game over.

On a related note:
Is it just me, or does this look like GW Bush touting job creation under his administration?