A council worker is digging holes, while another worker immediately fills them in.

Submitted by EndersGame_Reviewer t3_yeci1q in Jokes

A man is watching two council workers busy in a local park. One digs a hole, moves a couple of meters and digs another hole, and so on. The other worker follows the first, immediately filling in all the holes the first worker has dug.

The man watching is furious, and approaches them saying, "I'm going to write to the council about this digging holes and filling them in right away, it's a disgrace."

"Hang on," says one of the workers, "It's not our fault that Charlie's off sick."

"Who's Charlie?" asks the man.

"He's the guy who plants the trees."

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NoFunHere t1_itxasft wrote

This works as two city workers digging holes, but not so much as two city council members digging holes.

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Background-Anybody32 t1_itygtcp wrote

Reminds me of another joke:

A guy comes into a bar, orders a shot and a beer. After some minutes he had downed both, he suddenly jumps from his stool, runs to the door and shout to the outside - "green is up!"

Then he sits down again - a beer, a shot again. After some minutes he repeats the procedure. "green is up!"

This goes on for quite a while.

The barkeeper gets more and more curious. After a while he decided to ask: "hey man, what are you doing here? "

The guy answers: "Well, we work for the city, I got two man outside planting trees...."

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rocknutty t1_itz0vs4 wrote

I heard it as a blonde joke.

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JugglinB t1_itz3tbx wrote

I seem to remember that was one of Keynesian type economics ideas - pay a guy to dig a hole. Pay a guy to fill a hole. Both now have cash to spend on items that require workers to make and sell these items, who now have cash to spend on items that.... And so on....

Not an expert. Did one term on economics before switching to physics. The only science - "chemistry is just applied physics, and biology is just applied chemistry. Physics is the only science!" Quote from my physics lecturer not me...

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Fluffster79 t1_itzjntx wrote

True story: Cable company sent 1 company to digg a ditch in my parents front yard for the cable. Then the 2nd company lets us know that their worker is sick and can't place the cable. Then a 3rd company comes to fill the ditch. They all spoke Turkish. My dad almost had a heart attack. Worker let me use his phone so his friend could translate. Spoke to some guy in English, who spoke to some other guy in German, who spoke to our guy in Turkish. He said if he didn't fill it, we would have to pay for someone to fill it. So my dad wanted the ditch closed. I convinced him not to have it closed. As it would have resulted in us having to pay for digging AND filling afterwards. Clusterfuck.

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Siders1987 t1_itzjod2 wrote

Replying to JugglinB (#255,587)

Didn't Roosevelt do something similar with his "new deal" project? Pay people to do jobs that didn't require doing to help flood more money into the economy thus creating more jobs due to increase in sales and demand?

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Zombie_John_Strachan t1_itzkmj2 wrote

Replying to JugglinB (#255,587)

Two economists are walking down the street when they pass a pile of dog shit.

“I bet you $500 you won’t eat that” says the first to the second. “You’re on!” replies the second economist, who gamely bites into a log and happily collects the cash.

A few minutes later they pass another dog pile, so the second economist says to the first, “Now it’s your turn - $500 to eat that dog shit”. The first does, and collects his cash.

After a few more minutes of walking, the first economist says “hold on, we both ate dog shit and ended up with the same amount of cash.”

“Yeah” replied the second, “but we just increased GDP by $1,000”.

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Amyx231 t1_itzuexv wrote

I mean, the digger doesn’t want to be fired for not digging, and the filler has a wife, kids, and dog who rely on his paycheck, so he definitely can’t leave those holes unfilled!

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5ucur t1_iu03l0n wrote

I heard this one but with plumbing. The guy who lays the pipes was off sick.

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Nilucifar t1_iu0evz3 wrote

My father told me this one like a month ago. It was with roads though.

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happyonceuponatime t1_iu0z0fv wrote

Replying to Waterfish3333 (#257,958)

Only mechanics branch cares about movement...thermodynamics doesn't as much, nor does electrostatics or electricity...physics is the study of matter and energy...

Chemisty cares about the reactions. How everything reacts to everything....including atoms to themselves. It is the study of the substance.

Biology cares about living substance only. It is a macro reality of chemistry. It doesn't only care about movement...movement is just a tiny fraction....

In fact you are wrong about all because you are concentrated on mouvement only...

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jordantask t1_iu18paj wrote

Replying to Zombie_John_Strachan (#258,137)

A man is in a pub. He places his empty glass on the bar and says “I bet you $500 I can piss in that cup from all the way over here and not spill a drop.”

“You’re on!” Says the bartender. So the man unzips and begins urinating everywhere. He’s pissing on the floor, he’s pissing on the bar, he’s pissing on the furniture, he’s pissing in other people’s drinks, he’s pissing on the other customers.

When he’s done, he pulls out 5 $100 bills and hands them to the bartender while laughing hilariously.

“What’s so funny?” Asks the barkeep, “you just lost $500!”

The man gestures to another man beside him and says “Yeah but I just bet him 10 grand I could piss all over the place and you wouldn’t be mad.”

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stillnotking t1_iu1yhj1 wrote

Replying to Siders1987 (#257,975)

Sort of, but the jobs weren't make-work. The CCC did actually useful things like build flood-control ponds. One of them is down the hill from my house.

It's just that no one would have paid them to do the work, if the government hadn't.

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Fit_Cherry7133 t1_iu3eybr wrote

Replying to ButtonOats (#259,032)

The work should be more along the lines of "create a sculpture" or something else. Something that doesn't create any intrinsic value but does create social value.

If course capitalism doesn't like the second part of this and this is why our society is failing.

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