Monday, October 03, 2005

What is the similarity between operations Mgmt. and Cow?

Once upon a time lived a teacher, lets call him Mr.X, who was very good talking about cow. He used to teach children ‘Cow is a sacred animal. Cow gives milk and dung and host of others….’ An inspector who visited the school at that time was suitably impressed and recommended promotion for Mr.X.

When the same inspector visited the school next year, he found Mr.X teaching the same cow to the same children. An annoyed inspector asked Mr.X to talk on coconut tree instead. Mr.X thought for a moment, started ‘Coconut tree is a tall tree. Tethered to it is a cow. And Cow is a sacred animal….’

I thought this was a witty prank till today when I met Mr.X himself, Professor Sahay. A learned man in his sixties, Sahay loves to talk spirituality, culture and you-guessed-it-right, cow.

So he did, started the class with a Sanskrit slok and then it was cow all the way. Psycho Babble: ‘Like a cow that masticates the food it eats, one should reminisce knowledge to retain it’. Operation problem: If 6 cows graze a land in 3 days and 3 cows in 6, how many days will one cow take? He promised more cow problems tomorrow.

I have met a lot of interesting Profs, and this one tops them all.    

2 comments:

Incredibly Indian said...

i love the way you write exactly what all of think about every situation here...but dude if i were you, i would take the advice of our well meaning friend a bit seriously and refrain from overtly trashin our institute. afterall it has many great things and equally amazing people ( ergo : yours truly ;) ) which get overshadowed by some thing you say. i would say that you should write whatever you feel, just dont name places/people.

anywho, love the blog, cant get enough of it !

Id it is said...

He must be funny with all the fodder to offer in an Ops. Mgmt. class!