Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the edge
of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Jeep Cherokee screeches to a halt
next to him. The driver, a young man dressed in a suit and Ray-Ban glasses,
gets out and asks the shepherd "If I guess how many sheep you have, will you
give me one of them?"

The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the sheep grazing and
says, "All right." The young man parks the car, connects the notebook and the mobile, enters a NASA site, scans the ground sing his GPS, opens a data base and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150-page report on his
high-tech mini-printer. He then turns to the shepherd and says, "You have
exactly 1586 sheep here."

The shepherd answers, "That's correct, you can have your sheep. The young
man takes the sheep and puts it in the back of his jeep." The shepherd
looks at him and asks "If I guess your profession, will you return my
Sheep to me?" The young man answers "Yes, why not." The shepherd says, "You are a consultant!" "How did you know?" asks the young man. "Very simple," answers the shepherd "First, you come here without being called. Second, you charge me a sheep to tell me something I already knew. Third, you do not understand anything about what I do, because you took my dog!"

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Some people make Things happen, Some watch Things happen, While others wonder what has happened.............

Nice one!

Thanks and regards.
Biomed

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"Change before you have to" : Jack Welch

Consultants: Using your watch to tell you time.

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A Proud Indian Canadian

Here's one more on consultants.

A man is walking around in a market when a big sign in front of a shop catches his eye. "BUY PET MONKEYS WHO ARE ALSO SOFTWARE ENGINEERS". Now this guy is totally intrigued and says to himself he must check this out.

Goes into the shop and looks around. He sees a bunch of cages, each with one monkey and pricetags on them. The lowest one is $1000, so he asks the shopkeeper about it. . The owner says "oh, that one? That one is 1000 dollars. He can program in Turbo Pascal and GW-Basic." The man still looks around and sees another one which is 10,000 bucks. So asks the shop-keeper about him. "Now that's a more contemporary one. He know Visual Basic.NET and a bit of C# as well. Really smart fellow and also very hard-working." Cool, thinks the man and continues looking around. Suddenly he spots a monkey in a corner with a price tag of $1000000!! He's really curious what this guy can do and asks the shopkeeper.

"Well, I'm not really sure what he does, but he says he's a consultant!".

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Are you there?

Hey, that was cool , BL

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Some people make Things happen, Some watch Things happen, While others wonder what has happened.............