A tea party member, a CEO, and a union member

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Originally Posted by NateR

Actually, the CEO tastes one cookie and likes it enough to purchase the recipe from the cookie maker. He then begins to mass produce them cheaply enough that everyone can get their fill of cookies. But then the Union thug organizes the workers demanding pay raises, overtime, fewer work hours, healthcare benefits, retirement plans, stock options, vacation time, etc. forcing the CEO to raise the price of the cookies to pay for the extra cost of all these "entitlements," which causes sales to drop costing the company money. However the union continues to demand even more pay and benefits for less and less work, which eventually forces the CEO out of business resulting in no cookies for anybody.

I think this is the definitive revision of the original joke.

Originally Posted by NateR

Actually, the CEO tastes one cookie and likes it enough to purchase the recipe from the cookie maker. He then begins to mass produce them cheaply enough that everyone can get their fill of cookies. But then the Union thug organizes the workers demanding pay raises, overtime, fewer work hours, healthcare benefits, retirement plans, stock options, vacation time, etc. forcing the CEO to raise the price of the cookies to pay for the extra cost of all these "entitlements," which causes sales to drop costing the company money. However the union continues to demand even more pay and benefits for less and less work, which eventually forces the CEO out of business resulting in no cookies for anybody.

Love this!!!!!!

[rockdawg21]

Thanks, I shared that on FB, and have had about 5 people copy it on their FB statuses.

[rockdawg21]

Originally Posted by NateR

Actually, the CEO tastes one cookie and likes it enough to purchase the recipe from the cookie maker. He then begins to mass produce them cheaply enough that everyone can get their fill of cookies. But then the Union thug organizes the workers demanding pay raises, overtime, fewer work hours, healthcare benefits, retirement plans, stock options, vacation time, etc. forcing the CEO to raise the price of the cookies to pay for the extra cost of all these "entitlements," which causes sales to drop costing the company money. However the union continues to demand even more pay and benefits for less and less work, which eventually forces the CEO out of business resulting in no cookies for anybody.

Sweet, I just shared that one too!

Originally Posted by NateR

Actually, the CEO tastes one cookie and likes it enough to purchase the recipe from the cookie maker. He then begins to mass produce them cheaply enough that everyone can get their fill of cookies. But then the Union thug organizes the workers demanding pay raises, overtime, fewer work hours, healthcare benefits, retirement plans, stock options, vacation time, etc. forcing the CEO to raise the price of the cookies to pay for the extra cost of all these "entitlements," which causes sales to drop costing the company money. However the union continues to demand even more pay and benefits for less and less work, which eventually forces the CEO out of business resulting in no cookies for anybody.

Maybe tweak it a little to say the CEO moves the factory to Mexico and the union thug gets laid off and the tea partier demands an end to NAFTA and NAU

[rockdawg21]

Originally Posted by Chris F

Maybe tweak it a little to say the CEO moves the factory to Mexico and the union thug gets laid off and the tea partier demands an end to NAFTA and NAU

China

CEO offers to buy the cookies with his own personal funds and offers Tea Party Activist to work for him. He fronts money for a marketing budget and plan so they can both make a living. The Union guy pressures the Tea Party Activist to Unionize and give him dues so he can pay for lobbying politicians to create a more lucrative cookie-selling environment using taxpayer money. Price of cookies rises. Our taxes increase. Union pressures CEO to raise Tea Party Activist's pay and puts CEO out of business so now we all have to get our cookies from CHINA!

People forget that the default setting of human kind is ‘Poverty’. You can easily prove this by looking anywhere on earth or in history where there are no corporations or industry. Those people live in mud huts and die at age thirty from treatable diseases. We don’t have to live like that because we have evil corporations.