Monday, June 20, 2011

Are you looking at the problem, are you listening

The man is walking down a road out in the country one day and he sees a farmer out in an apple orchard The farmer is holding a large pig in his arms, and the pig is eating an apple from the tree. The man walks up to the farmer and says, “Wouldn’t it save time to pick the apple and let the pig eat it off the ground?”
The farmer says, “What’s time to a pig?”

I feel this way at work way to often. I ask a question and I get an answer, but not to the question. Reading it in the context of this joke, it is possible that I did not properly word the question. Wouldn't it save the Farmer time to pick the apple and let the pig eat it off the ground.

Guess I better take another look at my communications skill.