[spondylosaurus]

It's like running a marathon and you keep falling on your face because your shoes are untied, but you "don't have time" to stop and tie them, so instead you just keep tripping over and over and over while your competition recedes into the distance.

Bonk.

[TeMPOraL]

In the limit, you reach the level of that joke I remember hearing as a kid (and I think it dates to post-WWII rebuilding / soviet era). One possible retelling:

An outside inspection comes to a busy construction site. As they watch the workers running with wheelbarrows, back and forth between material storage and active construction, they notice that all the wheelbarrows are empty. They flag a foreman, and ask him, "why are all these workers pushing empty wheelbarrows around?", to which the foreman replies, "we're so swamped with work, there's no time to load them!".

[eimrine]

Also heared the story in my childhood. The reason they are keep doing that is that the loader guy is missing and they are not going to be paid unless a reward from some work.