#disguisedunemployment

As I went through the security check (they even checked my short natural hair!!) at the gate, a group of about 10 people carrying an already set up tent approached.
Of course four would have sufficed, one for each pole, but the others came along anyway, with just their fingers holding on to the flaps.
Away from the 10, was an eleventh person, in a suit, issuing directives on how to carry the tent, how to walk with the tent, and finally, when they put the tent down --- how to put the tent down.
 
It reminded me of these people who stand around a ‘dignitary’ when s/he is planting a tree. 
There is someone to hold the hoe. 
Someone is armed with the watering can. 
Someone else hovers near the empty jerrican. 
Two people to pour the water into the jerrican.
Another pair of eyes to ensure that the water goes INTO the jerrican.
A different individual to hand over the hoe to the 'dignitary'. 
Yet another overseeing the whole exercise. 
And others standing by wearing set smiles, just waiting to clap as the hoe digs into the soil, to clap again as the plant is carried to the soil, and to applaud when the plant is firmly in the ground. 
And someone else who takes the hoe when the planting is done, and hands it over to another person to take away.

And then they stretch their legs at the end of the day, and tell their spouses … “Today I did my share in building the nation…”