This actually happened for real, back when I was working in the Department for Work and Pensions. I had gone out to another section to deliver some paperwork and when I got back to our office, I saw one of my colleagues having trouble with the photocopier. I stopped and tried to help, but it still wasn't working.
Then we were joined by a third colleague, and a fourth, all crowding round the machine and trying to figure out what was wrong with it.
It was then that one of our Line Managers, Julie, walked past and said, quite nonchalantly and brilliantly: "How many Civil Servants does it take to mend a photocopier?"
Then we were joined by a third colleague, and a fourth, all crowding round the machine and trying to figure out what was wrong with it.
It was then that one of our Line Managers, Julie, walked past and said, quite nonchalantly and brilliantly: "How many Civil Servants does it take to mend a photocopier?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'