A friend and coworker shared this little story with me today as it applies to the workplace at times, and it occurred to me that it also applies to our society on a much bigger scale. Enjoy, and if nothing else, please try to be the Little Red Hen...I have no tolerance for the other farm animals... THE LITTLE RED HEN In the tale, the little red hen finds a grain of wheat, and asks for help from the other farmyard animals (most adaptions feature a pig and a duck) to plant it, but none of them volunteer. At each later stage (harvest, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and baking the flour into bread), the hen again asks for help from the other animals, but again she gets no assistance. Finally, the hen has completed her task, and asks who will help her eat the bread. This time, all the previous non-participants eagerly volunteer. She declines their help, stating that no one aided her in the preparation work. Thus, the hen eats it with her chicks leaving none for anyone else. The moral of this story is that those who show no willingness to contribute to a product do not deserve to enjoy the product: if any would not work, neither should he eat.[1]
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:18:22 +0000
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