A woman desperately looking for work goes to Mattel. The Personnel Manager goes over her resume and explains to her that he regrets he has nothing worthy of her skills. The woman answers that she really needs work and will take almost anything. The Personnel Manager thinks for a while and finally says he does have a low-skill Job on the "Tickle Me Elmo" line and nothing else.

   The woman happily accepts the job. He takes her down to the line and explains her duties and that she should be in for 8:00 AM the next day. The next day at 8:45 there's a knock at the Personnel Manager's door.

   The "Tickle Me Elmo" line manager comes in and starts ranting about the woman just hired. After screaming for 15 minutes about how badly backed up the assembly line is the Personnel Manager suggested she show him the problem. Together they head down to the line and sure enough Elmos are backed up from here to kingdom come. Right at the end of the line is the woman just hired, she has pulled over a roll of the material used for the Elmos and has a big bag of marbles. They both watch as she cuts a little piece of fabric and takes 2 marbles and starts sewing them between Elmo's legs.

   The Personnel Manager starts laughing and finally after five minutes of rolling around he pulls himself together and walks over to the new employee and says:

   "I'm sorry I guess you misunderstood me yesterday. What I wanted you to do was give Elmo two test tickles."