(ITA - 2001 - 1a Fase)
In April we asked our readers: is there humor in the workplace? Perhaps engineering is too serious to be funny - or is it? Here is one response:
ENGINEER IN HELL
To the editor:
An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer - you're in the wrong place."
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy. One day St. Peter calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies,"Hey, things are going great! We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."
St. Peter replies, "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake - he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."
St Peter says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
H.D.
Mt Vernon, Iowa, USA
Ao afirmar "... and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.", o Diabo quer dizer que:
já sabe do novo projeto do engenheiro mas não pretende contá-lo a São Pedro.
o engenheiro não quer divulgar o seu próximo projeto.
o engenheiro aguarda instruções para implementar outras benfeitorias no inferno.
ninguém no inferno fala sobre os próximos projetos do engenheiro.
mal pode esperar para ver a próxima benfeitoria que o engenheiro irá introduzir no inferno.