3rd Aug 2011 Giggles - A Raise

Employee: Excuse me sir, may I talk to you?

Boss: Sure, come on in. What can I do for you?
Employee: Well sir, as you know, I have been an employee of this prestigious firm for over ten years.

Boss: Yes.

Employee: I won't beat around the bush. Sir, I would like a raise! There are currently four companies certainly after me and so I decided to talk to you first.
Boss: A raise? I would love to give you a raise, but this is just not the right time.

Employee: I understand your position, and I know that the current economic down turn has had a negative impact on sales, but you must also take into consideration my hard work, pro-activeness and loyalty to this company for over a decade.
Boss: Taking into account these factors, and considering I don't want to start a brain drain, I'm willing to offer you a 10% raise and an extra five days of paid vacation! How does that sound?

Employee: Great! It's a deal! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Boss: Before you go, just out of curiosity, what companies were after you?

Employee: Oh, the Electric, Gas, Water and Mortgage Companies.

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Prev: 3rd Aug 2011 Just Think About It ...

3rd Aug 2011 Just Think About It!

Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest:

Each morning your bank would deposit €86,400.00 in your private account for your use. However, this carries certain rules.

1) Everything that didn't spend during each day, would be taken away from you. You may not simply transfer money into some other account. Youj may only spend it. 

Each morning upon awakening, the bank will deposit in your account another €86,400.00 for that day.

2) The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, 'It's over. The game is over. It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love, right? Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

You would try to spend every cent, to use it all, right?

Actually this game is reality!

Each of us is in possession of such a magical bank. We just can't seem to see it.

The Magical Bank is Time!

Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400.00 seconds as a gift of life, and when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us.

What we haven't lived up that day is forever lost. Yesterday is forever gone.

Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time ... WITHOUT WARNING.

So, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds? Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in Euros.

Just think about it! 

 

Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think. 

So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!

Here's wishing you all a wonderful and beautiful day.

START SPENDING!

Tags: bank, time, money

Prev: 3rd Aug 2011 Inexplicable phenomenon

3rd Aug 2011 Inexplicable Phenomenon

They say in every period of time there's a phenomenon, mysterious or odd, and mostly inexplicable. Someone, out of the blue, would suddenly be hit with totally strange idea and said to himself 'Yes, I think I'll have a go at this.' Usually something challenging or very peculiar. Then before you know it, everybody is doing it. Not because the idea would benefit the mankind, improve you mind or health or anything, it just seems fun or daring or absorbing even though it's also weird or senseless.

What's the newest? 'Owling' it's baptised. Perhaps it's got something to do with the 1995 film 'Angels & Demons' in which Christopher Walken appeared in a scene crouching on a tombstone looking like an owl. He has even been nicknamed Christopher Owling Walken. You are supposed to take up the pose of an owl, and perched yourself on some unusual or unlikely surface, sharp, dangerous, precarious ... take photo of yourself and post it on the web. A whole lot of celebrities belong to the tribe of 'owls'. The viral phenomenon is such that they are listed in Wikipedia.

 

It's thought to be a spin-off of the 'Planking', with 27 million pages in Google. For that you should show yourself on Internet, lying face down in an unusual place: in the middle of a highway, a railway track, on a tree and even on a whale. There had been an arrest when someone bragged on Facebook his pose - on top of a police car; including there had been a mortal victim in Australia. A 20 year old young man intended to make his pose on his balcony and fell off from the 7th floor.

The most difficult one is 'Storking', the pose is like a stork, with one leg up in the air ... ! As for me, it's 'puzzling' and 'wondering', all I can come up with is - what a senseless waste of great energy, not to say dangerous, which could have been very productive personally or for the mankind.

Tags: storking, owling, planking

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