It Does Sound Nice

“Well, I'd like to start this meeting by, um, deciding what goes on during a meeting. Anyone? Just a basic outline. Something we can use as a guide.”

“Sir, when you hired us, you knew we didn't have any experience.”

“But surely some of you have been to a meeting before. Yes? No? No one? Okay. We can work through this. I feel like we should be discussing business. We should have a business talk. Now, what kind of business are we?”

“Aren't we a bank?”

“Yes, that's right. So we should talk about money. Investments and loans and other things.”

“Allocation of funds.”

“What did you say?”

“Allocation of funds?”

“I'm writing that down. Allocation of funds. Very good. Sounds nice. So, how much money do we have? Anyone?”

“I think that, sir, because we just started, we don't have any money yet.”

“Ah, so we're waiting for people to deposit money. Well, that should be our first agenda then. And I believe I will put you in charge of that. Actually, this will be simple – you will be in charge of deposits, you'll be in charge of loans, you'll be in charge of investments, and of course you will be in charge of allocation of funds. How does that sound? Everybody okay with that?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Good. Excellent. We're making progress. Now I think the next agenda should be, uh, to figure out how to end this meeting. We can discuss any ideas anyone has. Because I feel like it might be a problem.”