Don’t monkey around with a Project Manager!
June 13th, 2009A man walked into a pet shop and noticed they had a large selection of monkeys. Just then another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, “I’d like a monkey that can program in C, please.” The shopkeeper went to the back room and came back with a monkey and said “That’ll be $5,000.”
The customer gave the shopkeeper $5,000 and walked out with the monkey. The tourist walked over to the shopkeeper and said “That’s a pricey monkey!”
The shopkeeper replied “Well it’s not often that you find a monkey that can write bug-free code in C and gets paid in bananas.”
“A programming monkey… what’ll they think of next? Do you have any others like that one?”, asked the tourist.
“Sure, we have a C++ monkey and he can write object-oriented code with the best of them. He even dabbles in Java and .Net, and he’s a steal at $10,000.”, said the shopkeeper.
The tourist, clearly shocked by the price, said “$10,000? That’s gotta be your most expensive animal.”
The shopkeeper replied, “Not even close. We have one more monkey that’s even more expensive, and he costs $50,000.”
Sputtering, the tourist said “Holy crap! What the heck does a $50,000 monkey do for you?”
The shopkeeper scratched his head and matter-of-factly said “Well, I haven’t actually seen him do anything, but he says he’s a project manager”.




