Category: business

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

Kowalski worked for the Department of Transportation. One day he woke up ill, with a touch of laryngitis-but-being a dedicated employee he went to work. The boss felt rather sorry for him and didn’t want him to do any physical labour-as they were repairing a part of the freeway.
“Kowalski” he says “why don’t you go down the road and tell people to slow down going through the construction”

Kowalski is glad for the easy day: He stops the first vehicle:

“Sir” he whispers, his throat feeling worse “please slow down, there’s a Government crew up ahead”

“Okay” the guy whispers back “I’ll try not to wake them”

Glyme’s Formula for Success: The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Things go right so they can go wrnog.

Never needlessly disturb a thing at rest.

Thyme’s Law: Everything goes wrong at once.

Gilb’s Laws Of Unreliability: 1) At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. 2) Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. 3) Udetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. 4) Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Halfway thru bootcamp the hairlip calls home to his buddy. Man this is tough, the drill seargent took three of us way up in a plane.He opened the door and told the first guy JUMP!! and the guy did. He grabbed the next guy and said JUMP!! and he did.He looked at me and said JUMP!! I told him no i just can’t. He pulled out his big thang and said, you jump or i’m gonna screw you with this. My goodness said his buddy, did you jump? Well yeah said the hairlip, a little bit right at first.

Gordian Maxim: If a string has one end, it has another.

For thirty years, Johnson had arrived at work at 9A.M. on the dot. He had never missed a day and was never late. Consequently, when on one particular day 9 A.M. passed without Johnson’s arrival, it caused a sensation. All work ceased, and the boss himself, looking at his watch and muttering, came out into the corridor. Finally, precisely at ten, Johnson showed up, clothes dusty and torn, his face scratched and bruised, his glasses bent. He limped painfully to the time clock, punched in, and said, aware that all eyes were upon him, “I tripped and rolled down two flights of stairs in the subway. Nearly killed myself.” And the boss said, “And to roll down two flights of stairs took you a whole hour?”

If only one price can be obtained for a quotation, the price will be unreasonable.

Nolan’s Placebo: An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.