9. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."
8. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about
in that time management course you sent me to."
7. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You
probably got here just in time!"
6. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission
statement and envisioning a new paradigm."
5. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."
4. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve
work-related stress.”
3. "Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a
solution to our biggest problem."
2. "The coffee machine is broken..."
1. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."
Sharon had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work. Her boss was mad at her and threatened to fire her if she didn't do something about it. So Sharon went to her doctor who gave her a pill and told her to take it before she went to bed. Sharon slept well and in fact beat the alarm in the morning by almost two hours. She had a leisurely breakfast and drove cheerfully to work.
"Boss", she said, " The pill actually worked!"
"That's all fine,” said the boss, " But where were you yesterday?"
Take all the chairs you can find from other offices, the conference room, etc., and fill up your victim’s office as full as possible.
Joe and Frank were in the office, and noticed that someone had put up a suggestion box with some 3x5 cards next to it. Both decided that this was a great idea, and each took a card to fill out.
Joe wrote, "The office workers should all be given raises!"
When he looked at Frank's card, it said "Can we all have raises, and keys to the executive washroom, and personal secretaries, and new company cars, and new coffee cups, and longer lunch breaks, and an extra three weeks vacation each year, and a holiday on St. Patrick's Day, and Columbus Day and Martin Luther King's Birthday?"
Joe said, "Frank, that isn't the right way of getting things changed around here. . . . You shouldn't put all of your begs in one ask-it."
The workers at the Federal Mint went on strike today.
They are demanding to make less money!
The executive was interviewing a potential employee for a position in his company.
He wanted to find out something about his personality so he asked, "If you could have a conversation with someone, living or dead, who would it be?"
The interviewee quickly responded, "The living one."
Two women were comparing notes on the difficulties of running a small business.
"I started a new practice last year," the first one said. "I insist that each of my employees take at least a week off every three months."
"Why in the world would you do that?" the other asked.
She responded, "It's the best way I know of to learn which ones I can do without."
MEMO
Subject: Prospective Employee Assessment
To: All Managers
The following guidelines shall be used when hiring new personnel.
Take the prospective employees you are trying to place and put them in a room with only a table and two chairs. Leave them alone for two hours, without any instruction. At the end of that time, go back and see what they are doing.
If they have taken the table apart in that time, put them in Engineering.
If they are counting the butts in the ashtray, assign them to Finance.
If they are screaming and waving their arms, send them off to Manufacturing.
If they are talking to the chairs, Personnel is a good spot for them.
If they are sleeping, they are Management material.
If they are writing up the experience, send them to Technical Publications.
If they don't even look up when you enter the room, assign them to Security.
If they try to tell you it's not as bad as it looks, send them to Marketing.
And if they have left early, put them in Sales.