How Company Policies are established

In this experiment they put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the  room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the  ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are  sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, whenever a  monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the ther monkeys, not wanting to be  sprayed, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever  attempts to climb the ladder.

One of the original monkeys is then removed, and  a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders  why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious, but, undaunted, he  immediately begins to climb the ladder. All the other monkeys fall upon him and  beat him silly. He has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the  ladder.

A second original monkey is removed and replaced.  The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys  hammer the crap out of him.

This includes the previous new monkey, who, grateful  that he’s not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating  because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he’s  attacking the new monkey.

One by one, all the original monkeys are  replaced, eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of  them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries,  without having any idea why.

AND THAT’S EXACTLY HOW  MOST OF THE COMPANY POLICIES & PROCEDURES GET ESTABLISHED.

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    Rick October 4, 2007 at 7:34 am

    Very clever, and true

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    Ian October 6, 2007 at 8:54 pm

    Okay! That is hilarious. Love your blog!

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    Ringmaster October 7, 2007 at 12:51 am

    Thanks Ian. Do come back daily. You will find more such hilarious stuff.

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    Flowercat October 9, 2007 at 6:10 am

    I don’t know about the metaphorical truth of this, because I spent the whole time reading it imagining what all that would actually, literally look like. Answer? Hilarious.

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    Locke October 11, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    That’s absolutely hilarious, and the truth!

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    Rollo Jenkins October 13, 2007 at 9:08 am

    I’m beating my monkey right now…

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    Kirt Holland November 12, 2008 at 4:53 pm

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