The Rotten Apple

The next biggest boss once told a story to a group of engineers about how a rotton apple will make more apples in the same basket rotten as well. (I think the boss may have been referring to the saying that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump.) The boss then asked the engineers who this rotten apple is. It is likely that he was hoping the answer would be - the bloody rat.

Although none of them answered, one of the engineers told me that he was thinking that the answer should be that the apples aren't really rotten. Its the basket that's making the apples rotten.

Brilliant answer I say, pity the basket won't see it that way.