Train travel is free for engineers

A group of engineers and a group of business administrators are traveling by train to a conference.

Each business administrator has a ticket, while the entire group of engineers only has one single ticket.

Suddenly, one of the engineers shouts, „The conductor is coming!“ Whereupon all the engineers shove themselves into one of the toilets.

The conductor checks the business travelers, sees that the toilet is occupied, and knocks on the door: „Ticket, please!“

One of the engineers slides the ticket under the door and the conductor happily pulls away.
On the way back, the business economists decide to try the same trick and buy only one ticket for the whole group. They are very surprised when they realize that the engineers have no ticket at all this time.

Again, one of the engineers calls out, „The conductor is coming!“ Immediately, the business managers rush into one restroom, while the engineers make their way more leisurely to the other restroom.

Before the last of the engineers enters the restroom, he knocks on the business administrators„ door: “Ticket, please!"

And the moral of the story? Business economists apply the methods of engineers without truly understanding them.