Theory and Practice

"Great Boss"

A salesman attending a meeting on the coast
was held up when a severe storm and a flood
washed out the local airport.

He wired his office: "Delayed by storm. Send
instructions."

His boss wired back: "We'll answer your calls.
Begin vacation immediately."

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"Argument"

Boss... "I saw you arguing with that customer.
Don't you know that our policy is 'The customer
is always right?'"

Employee... "Yes I do, but he insisted that he
was wrong!"

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"Theory and Practice"

Mark Twain said that when he was a young man
he was impressed by the story of a fellow who
landed a job when a manager saw him pick up
several pins from the sidewalk outside the firm's
office.

The manager was so impressed with the man's
thrift and diligence that he gave him an interview
right then and there.

So Twain went to the street alongside the office
windows of a firm he wanted to work for and began
almost ostentatiously to pick up pins he had earlier
placed on the sidewalk.

After a good number of pins had been picked up,
a clerk came out and said, "The boss asked me
to tell you to move along. Your idiotic behavior is
distracting the people working in the office."
Received on Tue Oct 31 22:51:38 2006