Corporate Lessons

Lesson Number One:

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small
rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and
do nothing all day long?”

The crow answered: “Sure, why not.”

So, the Rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All
of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be
sitting very, very high up.

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Lesson Number Two:

A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to
get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t
got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied
the bull.

“They’re packed with nutrients.” The turkey pecked at a lump of
dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to
reach the first branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second
branch. Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched
at the top of the tree. Soon, he was promptly spotted by a
farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it
won’t keep you there.

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Lesson Number Three:

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold,
the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it
was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As
the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to
realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile
of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!

The morals of this story are:
1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you’re in deep shit, keep your mouth shut

Buying Condoms

An man walks up to a clerk at a pharmacy and asks to buy some
condoms. The clerk asks, “What size do you wear?” The man
replies, “I don’t know.” The clerk unzips his pants and takes a
feel. She then picks up the intercom and says, “Large condoms to
aisle 4 please.” The man zips up his pants and leaves.

Later another man walks up to the clerk and asks to buy some
condoms. He doesn’t know his size either. The clerk unzips his
pants and takes a feel. She then picks up the intercom and says,
“Medium condoms to aisle 4 please.” The man zips up his pants
and leaves.

A while later a teen comes in, shaking nervously. “Let me
guess,” says the clerk, “condoms?” “Yes”, he replies, “but I
don’t know my size.” She checks, picks up the intercom, “Clean
up aisle 4!”

A Mean Drunk

Two men are sitting drinking at a bar at the top of the Empire
State Building, when the first man turns to the other and says
“You know, last week I discovered that if you jump from the top
of this building, the winds around the building are so intense
that by the time you fall to the 10th floor, they carry you
around the building and back into a window”. The bartender just
shakes his head in disapproval while wiping the bar.

The second guy says, “What, are you nuts? There’s no way that
could happen. “No, its true,” the first man says. “Let me prove
it to you.” He gets up from the bar, jumps over the balcony, and
plummets toward the street below. As he nears the 10th floor,
the high winds whip him around the building and back into the
10th floor window and he takes the elevator back up to the bar.

He meets the second man, who looks quite astonished. “You know,
I saw that with my own eyes, but that must have been a one time
fluke.” “No, I’ll prove it again,” says the first man as he
jumps again. Just as he is hurtling toward the street, the 10th
floor wind gently carries him around the building and into the
window. Once upstairs he urges his fellow drinker to try it.

“Well, why not.” the second guy says, “It works. I’ll try it.”
He jumps over the balcony, plunges downward passes the 11th,
10th 9th, 8th, floors. . . . . and hits the sidewalk with a
SPLAT.

Back upstairs the bartender turns to the other drinker and says,
“You know Superman, you’re a real jerk when you’re drunk”.

BLIND MAN AND HIS DOG

There was a blind man and his seeing eye dog,and they decided to go to a store so they walked to the store and all of a sudden the blind man grabes his dogs by the tail and started swinging him around, and some of the employees saw the old man and started to go ask the old man what he was doing but they decided to tell the manager so they told the manager and the manager goes to the old man and asks him “sir is there something wrong can I be of some assistance”.But the old man says “No were just looking around”.

Slice

Joe, a notoriously bad golfer, hits his ball off the first tee and watches as it slices to the right and disappears through an open window. Figuring that’s the end of it, he gets another ball out of his bag and plays on. On the eighth hole, a police officer walks up to Joe on the course and says, “Did you hit a golf ball through a window back there?”
Joe says, “Yes I did.”

“Well,” says the police officer, “it knocked a lamp over, scaring the dog, which raced out of the house onto the highway. A driver rammed into a brick wall to avoid the dog, sending 3 people to hospital. And it’s all because you sliced the ball.”

“Oh my goodness,” says Joe, “is there anything I can do?”

“Yes there is,” the cop says… “Try keeping your head down and close up your stance a bit.”

What Bill Gates Says and Means

Gates Says: We will fix any problems with Netscape.
He Means: We’ll take them out of buisness.

Gates Says: There is a flight simulator hidden inside Excel ’98.
He Means: There is one screen shot and an order form charging $80 for the
Flight Simulator.

Gates Says: I will not cheat.
He Means: I will bend the rules.

Gates Says: We will create the best opearting system ever!
He Means: We’ll take everyone else out of buisness, making our OS the only
one, and that makes it the best.

Buying Paint

BUYING PAINT FROM A HARDWARE STORE

Customer: Hi. How much is your paint?

Clerk: We have regular quality for $12 a gallon and premium for $18. How many gallons would you like?

Customer: Five gallons of regular quality, please.

Clerk: Great. That will be $60 plus tax.

BUYING PAINT FROM AN AIRLINE

Customer: Hi, how much is your paint?

Clerk: Well, sir, that all depends.

Customer: Depends on what?

Clerk: Actually, a lot of things.

Customer: How about giving me an average price?

Clerk: Wow, that’s too hard a question. The lowest price is $9 a gallon, and we have 150 different prices up to $200 a gallon.

Customer: What’s the difference in the paint?

Clerk: Oh, there isn’t any difference; it’s all the same paint.

Customer: Well, then, I’d like some of that $9 paint.

Clerk: Well, first I need to ask you a few questions. When do you intend to use it?

Customer: I want to paint tomorrow, on my day off.

Clerk: Sir, the paint for tomorrow is the $200 paint.

Customer: What? When would I have to paint in order to get the $9 version?

Clerk: That would be in three weeks, but you will also have to agree to start painting before Friday of that week and continue painting until at least Sunday.

Customer: You’ve got to be kidding!

Clerk: Sir, we don’t kid around here. Of course, I’ll have to check to see if we have any of that paint available before I can sell it to you.

Customer: What do you mean check to see if you can sell it to me? You have shelves full of that stuff; I can see it right there.

Clerk: Just because you can see it doesn’t mean that we have it. It may be the same paint, but we sell only a certain number of gallons on any given weekend. Oh, and by the way, the price just went to $12.

Customer: You mean the price went up while we were talking!

Clerk: Yes, sir. You see, we change prices and rules thousands of times a day, and since you haven’t actually walked out of the store with your paint yet, we just decided to change. Unless you want the same thing to happen again, I would suggest that you get on with your purchase. How many gallons do you want?

Customer: I don’t know exactly. Maybe five gallons. Maybe I should buy six gallons just to make sure I have enough.

Clerk: Oh, no, sir, you can’t do that. If you buy the paint and then don’t use it, you will be liable for penalties and possible confiscation of the paint you already have.

Customer: What?

Clerk: That’s right. We can sell you enough paint to do your kitchen, bathroom, hall and north bedroom, but if you stop painting before you do the bedroom, you will be in violation of our tariffs.

Customer: But what does it matter to you whether I use all the paint? I already paid you for it!

Clerk: Sir, there’s no point in getting upset; that’s just the way it is. We make plans based upon the idea that you will use all the paint, and when you don’t, it just causes us all sorts of problems.

Customer: This is crazy! I suppose something terrible will happen if I don’t keep painting until after Saturday night!

Clerk: Yes, sir, it will.

Customer: Well, that does it! I’m going somewhere else to buy my paint.

Clerk: That won’t do you any good, sir. We all have the same rules. Thanks for painting with our airline.

Revenge on a Whaling Ship

Two whales, a male and female, are swimming off the coast of
Japan when the male whale looks up and sees the whaling ship
that killed his father five years ago. Excited at the
opportunity to avenge his father’s death, the male whale says to
the female, “Let’s go underneath the ship and blow air through
our blow holes. That ought to knock their boat over, and make
them think twice about killing innocent whales.”

The female whale agrees, and the plan works perfectly. Once the
whaling ship has completely sunk, the male whale notices that
most of the sailors are making their way back to the shore by
either swimming or in lifeboats. Not willing to let them get
away so easily, the male whale yells “They’re going to shore.
Let’s go gobble them up!” Suddenly, the female whale becomes
less cooperative. “Hey!”, she says, “I agreed to the blowjob,
but I’m not swallowing any seamen!”