This is one of the many "Dead Horse" stories I would send my bosses when we disagreed on a work task. Sorry, I like dead horse stories.ERLover wrote:JPG, Dusty, let it go, we all want to be right, me too at times. My Mother in Law and X wife would beat a horse to death, then would keep beating it to life again, just to proof a point or in there mind, be correct/rightJPG wrote:The invoice that he had says he got and paid for level 1.
'Reasonable' conjecture would be he got more than that(legs etc.).
'Unfounded' conjecture would be some other things resident here especially that which ignores already established 'facts'(records from that time simply do not exist in computer files).
Perhaps they do exist in paper form(something I doubt - a likely victim of recent 'downsizing'). More conjecture on both counts!
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to qualify as a dead horse rider.
7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8. Pass legislation declaring that "This horse is not dead."
9. Unilaterally declaring, "no horse is too dead to beat."
10. Blaming the horse's parents.
11. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
12. Do a Cost Analysis Study to see if contractors can ride the horse cheaper.
13. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
14. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
15. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
