nce 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 Brioni suit, Cerrutti
shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, and a YSL tie gets out and asks the sheperd: -
If I
guess how many sheep you do have, you give me one of them?
The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the sheep which
graze
and says: All right.
The young man parks the car, connects the notebook and the mobile,
enters a
NASA site, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60
Excel
tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150-pages 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 in the back of his jeep.
The sheperd 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 an Arthur Andersen 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!