Sam had been with the company for 40 years. When he retired, they gave
him a watch (not a Rolex… a Timex). Three weeks later, the main machine
stopped running and nobody could figure out what the problem was, so
they called Sam.
He came in the next day and walked around the machine. “Got a big
hammer?” he asked. The new “tech” ran to get the biggest one he could
find. Sam smacked a bolt on the left side of the machine and it started
right up.
When the company got his bill, it was for $10,000 and the company
president was furious. He called Sam, “You took ten minutes and you
charged us ten thousand dollars? Nobody charges that much an hour!”
Sam replied, “Actually, I only charged you ten bucks for the labor, but
it cost you $9,990 for me to figure out which bolt to smack.”
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