Engineers -- good one...

A team of young budding Managers were given anassignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So the Managers discussed and put up a projectplan with roles and responsibilities. The Manager who was responsible for organizing theresources went out and got a ladder and atape. The tape measure was just the ordinary tape of6 feet. The lead manager assigned another manager togo on top of the pole and start the measure.They were falling off the ladders, dropping the tapemeasures - the whole thing was just a mess. An Engineer came along and saw what they' weretrying to do. He walked over pulled the flagpole out of the ground, laid it flat,measured it from end to end, gave the measurement to one of the managers and walked away. After the Engineer went away, one manager turnshead to another and laughs."Isn't that just like an engineer? We're lookingfor height and he gives the length"