When you watch people working, they can often make you feel good, especially if they are working very hard. Yet all too often, we see people who are not working very hard and it makes us wonder why they are even there in the first place.

In the following humorous story, two men are working very hard and their feverish pace really gets the attention of an onlooker. He notices how one of them is following the other but it doesn’t seem to make any sense to him.

When you work for a living, you realize that there are going to be times when things don’t make sense. Perhaps that is why we find the following joke so hilarious.

There were two guys working for the city council.

One would dig a hole — he would dig, dig, dig.

The other would come behind him and fill the hole — fill, fill, fill.

These two men worked furiously; one digging a hole, the other filling it up again.

A man was watching from the sidewalk and couldn’t believe how hard these men were working, but couldn’t understand what they were doing.

Finally, he had to ask them.

He said to the hole digger, “I appreciate how hard you work, but what are you doing? You dig a hole and your partner comes behind you and fills it up again!”

The hole digger replied,

“Oh yeah, must look funny, but the guy who plants the trees is sick today.”