Company Policy

Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the roomis a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hangingfrom a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey triesto climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed withice water, which makes them miserable.Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb theladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to besprayed, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none ofthe eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder.One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a newmonkey is put in the room.Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why noneof 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 himsilly. He has no idea why. However, he no longerattempts to climb the ladder.A second original monkey is removed and replaced. Thenewcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but allthe other monkeys hammer the crap out of him. Thisincludes the previous new monkey, who, grateful thathe's not on the receiving end this time, participatesin the beating because all the other monkeys are doingit. However, he has no idea why he's attacking the newmonkey.One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced.Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of themhave ever been sprayed by ice water. None of themattempt to climb the ladder. All of them willenthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries,without having any idea why.

"AND THAT'S HOW ANY COMPANY'S POLICIES GETESTABLISHED".